{"id":31008,"date":"2014-04-30T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.com\/?p=31008"},"modified":"2014-04-30T11:22:03","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T15:22:03","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-mothers-geniuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/2014\/uncommon-knowledge-mothers-geniuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: Are mothers geniuses?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/product\/anatomy?source=blog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/24667_zoom1-548x548.jpg\" alt=\"Anatomy by Dave Marcoullier | UncommonGoods\" width=\"548\" height=\"548\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-31009\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/24667_zoom1-548x548.jpg 548w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/24667_zoom1-125x125.jpg 125w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/24667_zoom1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/24667_zoom1.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/a>Pregnancy is no easy business\u2014as your mother has probably pointed out many times (and as you may have reminded your own children). But among the many, often-uncomfortable changes that happen within a woman\u2019s body during pregnancy, there is at least one unexpected plus side: a bigger brain. A team at the National Institute of Mental Health conducted MRI scans of women before and after birth, and found growth of gray matter in the parts of the brain that affect reasoning, judgment and sensory perception. So, remember all those times growing up, when your mom somehow knew what you were up to without having to be told? It wasn\u2019t ESP. It was merely her mutant superpowers at work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/product\/anatomy?source=blog\" target=\"_blank\">Anatomy by Dave Marcoullier, $46<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst often-uncomfortable changes that happen within a woman\u2019s body during pregnancy, there is at least one unexpected plus side: a bigger brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":31010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}