Susan Brink is an award-winning journalist who has covered health and medicine for 35 years for news organizations including the Los Angeles Times and U. S. News and World Report. Susan is uniquely positioned to write about the science of very early infant development. As a journalist, she is adept at pursuing a range of sources: the pediatrician’s view from the clinic, the scientists view from the lab, and the parent’s view from the nursery. She’s done a masterful job of probing the knowledge and wisdom of those and more experts, synthesizing and interpreting complex scientific information and translating it into compelling and readable prose. As the mother of two grown daughters and the grandmother of six young children, she also knows there are no magic solutions to the frustrations of The Fourth Trimester. But readers will come to understand how evolution, neurobiology, an outside-the-uterus fourth trimester—along with constant, loving, informed attention—work together toward the development of each unique baby.