How Mother’s Brain Changes During Pregnancy
The arrival of a new child into the world is accompanied by significant changes in the brain of its mother.
Pregnancy
During pregnancy the functioning of the maternal visual system improves. The mother’s sensitivity to the baby’s odors and sounds increase, and activity increases in the hippocampus. Therefore increasing her ability to learn and memorise.
Mother’s maternal brain
However, few years ago it was found that pregnancy coincides with a reversible reduction in the size of the maternal brain. This change not only does not imply a decline in the cognitive abilities of mothers, but rather the opposite. Research increasingly suggests that the neuronal changes experienced by the thinking organ increase a mother’s abilities.
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