BRAIN CHANGER. A MOTHER'S GUIDE TO COGNITIVE SCIENCE - Tecno-Libro

After completing her degree in cognitive science at UC Berkeley, Janine Kovac became pregnant with she thought was her second child. instead, it was twins. Not just any twins, but high-risk, mono-chorionic/mono-amniotic twins, a condition that occurs in one out of 45,000 twin pregnancies. Survival outcomes hover at the 50/50 mark. Mono-chorionic/mono-amniotic twins share a placenta and an amniotic sac and there s nothing to separate the umbilical cords. Nothing to keep one baby s cord from strangling his brother. After carefully outlining the risks and the protocols the doctor, There is nothing you can do to prevent the babies from dying. Don t let it stress you out. You can t do anything about it. Then he sent her home. There was anger, denial, panic and lots of Googling. But there was something else, too. A thesis she d just written titled A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis of Parenting. As the parent of a toddler girl, she wa