Abigail Tucker, MOM GENES

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 18 May 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Abigail Tucker joins Zibby to break down the science in her latest book. The two talk about the research that is being conducted on how "mommy brain" is a real biological phenomenon, how the way we treat new mothers can have a psychological impact, and how our own mother's genes may still be inside us today.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:07.0	I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology,
0:12.2	which you should run out and buy called Moms Don't Have Time to, a quarantine anthology.
0:16.8	All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research.
0:20.4	And I'm the editor-in-chief of Moms Don't Have Time to Write a new publication on Medium,
0:25.0	and we're accepting submissions, so please send your personal essays there.
0:29.1	And if all that isn't enough, you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens,
0:32.8	and my website is Zibby Owens.com.
0:34.8	Okay, now back to this amazing podcast.
0:39.6	Abigail Tucker is the author of Mom Jeans, Inside the New Science of Our Ancient Maternal Instinct. Abigail's work has been
0:45.6	featured in the Best American Science and Nature writing series. She is the New York Times
0:49.8	best-selling author of The Lion in the Living Room, How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the
0:54.8	World, which was named a Best Science Book of 2016 by Library, Journal, and Forbes, and is now
0:59.9	translated into 13 languages.
1:02.0	A correspondent for Smithsonian Magazine, she currently lives in New Haven, Connecticut,
1:06.3	with her husband, and four equally amazing children.
1:09.5	Welcome, Abigail.
1:10.4	Thanks so much for coming on mom.
1:11.7	Don't have time to read books to discuss mom jeans. Thank you, Zibbe. I'm so glad to be here.
1:17.0	I always know I'm going to like enjoy an interview when the title is really funny. Just like love plays
1:22.7	on words like that. So anyway, I knew this would be very interesting. Can you please tell listeners what your book is
1:30.4	about and also what inspired you to write it? So my book is about the science behind this transformation
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