Thank you to all mothers, fathers and babies who shared their experiences and insights for BORN.

Speaker/source list for BORN:

Louanne Brizendine, M.D.
Author of The Female Brain

Lynn Smith-Lovin, Ph.D, Duke University

James F. Leckman, M.D., Director of Research - Neison Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry and Pediatrics
Child Study Center
Yale University School of Medicine

Riane Eisler, Author of The Real Wealth of Nations

Joan Blades, Founder of MomsRising

Louis Cozolino, Ph.D, Pepperdine University
Author of The Neuroscience of Human Relationships - Attachment and the Developing Social Brain

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Ph.D
Author of Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection

Katherine Stone, author of the most widely-read blog in the United States on postpartum depression, postpartum OCD and postpartum psychosis.

Carol Merle-Fishman, LCAT, LMHC
Psychotherapist and postpartum counselor
Co-author of The Music Within You

RECOMMENDED LINKS and INFORMATION

UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre (IRC)

An overview of child well-being in rich countries

FACT: A Harvard/McGill University study found that of over 170 countries studied; only 4 didn’t have some form of paid leave for new moms: The U.S., Papua New Guinea, Swaziland, and Liberia.
 
SOURCE: Jody Heymann et al., 2007 Work, Family and Equity Index:  How Does the US Measure up?  (Montreal, QC; Boston, MA: The Institute for Health and Social Policy at McGill University and the Project on Global Working Families, 2007).

Zero to Three
ZERO TO THREE's mission is to support the healthy development and well-being of infants, toddlers and their families.

Childbirth Connection's newest study "New Mothers Speak Out"

Third Path Institute
Jessica DeGroot is one of the nation's leading figures in the work/life field.

European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions

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