Darby Saxbe

She was so excited that I was going to be on it.

She listens to it all the time.

What's her name?

Kat.

Oh, my God.

Definitely.

Yeah.

So I run a lab called the Neuroendocrinology of Social Ties.

So the acronym is the NEST Lab.

And NEST is kind of like an apt metaphor because we're very interested in family relationships and stress and how people connect with each other.

And we've been studying specifically the transition to parenthood over the last 15 years or so.

So we have this long-running longitudinal study where we bring couples into the lab when they're expecting their first child.

And we follow them across the first postpartum year.

So we are looking at their brains.

We're looking at their hormones.

We're looking at how they talk to each other.

So very interested in how people relate to each other and sort of what that portends when a couple transitions into this new reality of parenthood.

Definitely not.

Okay.

One of the first things I did when I was starting to work on the book is I just did like a PubMed search.