For day 2 of Book Week, I'm highlighting Annie Murphy Paul's eye-opening Origins: How The Nine Months Before Birth Shape The Rest of Our Lives. You've likely already seen this one on the cover of TIME, last weekend's New York Times Book Review, or television. How much does an expectant mother's health and experiences during pregnancy influence her child through adulthood? A LOT! Paul explores factors like weight gain, stress, diet, disease resistance, environmental toxins, and more delving into the science behind how our months in the womb influence our lives:
Author and journalist Annie Murphy Paul ventures into the laboratories of fetal researchers, interviews experts from around the world, and delves into the rich history of ideas about how we’re shaped before birth. She discovers dramatic stories: how individuals gestated during the Nazi siege of Holland in World War II are still feeling its consequences decades later; how pregnant ...
