During my years as an undergraduate student, I read The Brain that Changes Itself by Dr. Norman Doidge. I was entirely fascinated by neuroplasticity –our brain´s remarkable ability to change through experience and learning – that I decided right there and then that I wanted to be a neuroscientist and dedicate my life to study the brain. For over 10 years I have worked in academic laboratories and studied how the brain changes with age.

When I experienced the transformation that motherhood is, I became increasingly passionate and captivated by all the brain changes that accompany this powerful transition. It turns out that these neuroplastic changes are driven by powerful biological mechanisms especially designed to attune to our babies, and to respond to them sensitively and appropriately so that they can thrive. We not only give birth to a baby, we also give birth to the knowledge within us! Just like our baby’s brain grows and develops at an astonishing rate, so does our parenting brain, growing, evolving and adapting to the beautiful and challenging experience of parenthood.