Empathy frequently informs our earliest days with our infants as we try to figure out what they need, how to comfort and satisfy them.

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There is no other time in a woman's life when she needs to be quite as smart as when she is looking after young children.

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There are changes in the brain (during pregnancy and early motherhood) ? concrete, measurable changes, and later, the way we think and behave is changed.

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Motherhood is an especially powerful experience because it involves learning under high-stakes conditions, which is just the sort of learning that drives change in the brain.

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