Dr. Edna Lekgabe
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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It is loaded with this identity shift, this emotional complex landscape.
She's like there's something else going on.
So she did a TED talk and it went viral as well.
And so what she described, which we keep coming back to this, I think it's a really important way of understanding mattresses.
Alexandra Sachs described the pull and the push.
The simple theory that she described, mom's brain changes in a way where she's pulled to focus on the baby.
There's a pull.
There's a physiological pull to keep your attention on it because the human baby is born.
They can't feed themselves.
They can't walk.
They can't do anything.
So mom has to keep this thing alive.
So 300,000 years ago when humans came on this earth.
The brain hijacks things so that you're focused.
There's this pull to focus on this baby to keep it alive.
But there's this push on the other side, which is my old self.
I need to sleep.
I need to eat.
I need to go out.
Eat, sleep.