Motherdom review: How neuroscience and bad studies have fuelled intensive parenting

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How mothers handle their baby’s every move is now subject to “expert” advice

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Alex Bollen (Verso (***, out now; US, pending))

Relax, but be on constant alert. Enjoy your baby, but take them very seriously. Follow your instincts, but do exactly what the scientists and health professionals say. Amid such a deluge of “expert” advice, is it any wonder that the experience of modern parenting – motherhood, in particular – can often feel exhausting and impossible?

Thankfully, a handful of well-researched books are questioning this stress-generating situation and, in the case of Motherdom: Breaking free from bad science…

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