BRAIN DEVELOPMENT while in utero is critical to how we will live and experience the rest of our lives. Sadly, most of us still lack a clear understanding of how to help ourselves improve the brain development of those we love the most - the children we carry, birth and raise. These books, articles and videos shed light on this most important aspect of our development from conception onwards.

• “Stress During Pregnancy Linked to Kids’ Poor Motor Skills Later in Life,” Medical Daily

• “Map Of The Developing Human Brain Shows Where Problems Begin,” NPR”

• “After Abuse, Changes in the Brain,” New York Times

• “How the First Nine Months Shapes The Rest Of Your Life,” TIME

• “The Poverty Clinic,” The New Yorker

• “Stressed Mom, Schizophrenic Kids,” TIME

• “What Happens to Moms Who Are Denied Abortion,” New York Times

• “What We Learn Before We’re Born,“ TED

• “Science Says Excessive Crying Could Be Harmful,“ Ask Dr. Sears

• “The Vulnerable Prenate,“ William Emerson, Ph.D

• “Cuddle Your Kid,“ New York Times

• “Parents Who Sleep Badly? They May Think Their Children Are, Too,“ NPR

• “Love Key to Brain Development in Children,” CNN

• “Five Things NOT To Do To Babies,” Psychology Today

• “Do We Need Declaration For The Rights Of The Baby,” Psychology Today

• “Tracking Stress and Depression Back to the Womb,” New York Times

• “Dad’s life stress exposure can affect offspring brain development,” Science Daily

• “Poverty influences children’s early brain development,” University of Wisconsin, Madison

• “Autism Study Points Way to Calming Troubled Brains,” NBC

• “Pregnant mother’s stress affects baby’s gut and brain,” New Scientist

• “Maternal Stress and Effects of Prenatal Air Pollution on Offspring Mental Health Outcomes in Mice,” Environmental Health Perspectives

• “How Modern Societies Violate Human Development,” Psychology Today

• “Conscious Parenting: Shefali Tsabary at TEDXSF,“ TEDx Talks

• “In a Mother’s Milk, Nutrients, and a Message, Too,” New York Times

• The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, And It’s Not What You Think,” Huffington Post

• “What Poverty Does to the Young Brain,” TheNew Yorker

• “Unequal Beginnings,” The Economist

• “Nadine Burke Harris: How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime,” TEDMED 2014

• “Why Washington, D.C. is the Most Dangerous City in the Developed World to be Born,” Yahoo News

• “Why Are America’s PostPartum Practices So Rough On New Mothers?,” Daily Beast

• “The Scientific Evidence Against Spanking, Time Outs, and Sleep Training,” Huffington Post

• “Prenatal Blueprints Give an Early Glimpse of a Baby’s Developing Brain,” The Guardian

• “We’re Thinking About ADHD All Wrong, Says a Top Pediatrician,“ NPR                                                                             

• “Babies born in a recession ‘have worse health’,” The Economist

• The Mother’s Signature, Bernard W. Bail

• In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, Gabor Maté

• When The Body Says No, Gabor Maté

• Windows to the Womb: Revealing the Conscious Baby from Conception to Birth, David Chamberlain, PhD

• "Scared Sick" The Role of Childhood Trauma in Adult Disease," by Robyn Kerr-Morse

• Welcoming Consciousness: Supporting Babies' Wholeness from the Beginning of Life-An Integrated Model of Early Development, by Wendy Anne McCarty

• Why Love Matters: How affection shapes a baby's brain, by Sue Gerhardt

• Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives, by Annie Murphy Paul

• Prenatal Development and Parents' Lived Experiences: How Early Events Shape Our Psychophysiology and Relationships, by Ann Diamondstein, PhD