Why maternal instinct is a myth with Chelsea Conaboy

Motherkind

Zoe Blaskey

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8 • 863 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Today’s guest is health and science journalist and mother of two, Chelsea Conaboy. She was part of the Boston Globe’s Pulitzer prize–winning team for coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing and more recently has worked as a magazine writer with bylines at Mother Jones, Politico, The Week, the Boston Globe Magazine, and others. Chelsea has done 1000s of hours of research into the science of what happens to your brain when you become a parent. What she finds is quite incredible, and it is all in her new book, Mother brain, how neuroscience is rewriting the story of motherhood. We all instinctively know how changed we are by motherhood, right? But, have you ever wondered what is actually happening in your brain when you become a mother? In this episode you are going to learn: Why maternal instinct is a myth and where that idea came from Why worry and anxiety is so normal in parenthood What changes happen in our brain throughout parenthood and why that gives our brain an upgrade for our whole lives. Come follow us on Instagram for tips and announcements. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:46.0	Hey, it's Zoe Blaskey and welcome to Mother Kai in the show that's going to help you navigate
0:51.0	the massive challenges of life as a modern mother with more
0:55.7	community, confidence, clarity and self-awareness. Thank you for being here. I am so grateful
1:01.5	that you pushed that little play button and you're here with me right now. So we all instinctively
1:08.3	know how changed we are by motherhood, right?
1:11.1	I felt so changed and transformed by it that I decided to make this podcast and create
1:16.9	motherkind and make it hopefully my life's work to empower mothers.
1:22.4	But have you ever wondered what is actually happening in your brain when you become a mother? Is maternal instinct
1:30.7	a real thing? If so, why does it feel so elusive for so many of us when we become mothers?
1:37.9	Is mum brain real? Have our children really stolen all of our brain cells? And why do we feel
1:43.6	so anxious in motherhood?
1:45.8	Where does all that come from? This week's episode is going to answer all those questions and more.
1:51.4	Health and Science Journalist and mother of two, Chelsea Conner Boy, has done thousands and thousands
1:57.7	of hours of research into the science of what happens to your brain when you become
2:04.4	a parent. And what she finds is quite incredible. And it is all in her new book called Mother Brain,
2:12.2	how neuroscience is rewriting the story of parenthood. I believe that when we can understand our experience, then
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