Do Chocolate Lovers Have Sweeter Babies?

Jena Pincott has a background in biology and was a production assistant on science documentaries for PBS. She is a former senior editor at Random House, and is the author of Success: Advice for Achieving Your Goals from Remarkably Accomplished People and Healing: Advice for Recovering Your Strength and Spirit from the World's Most Famous Survivors. Jena lives in New York City and plays the clarinet. She travels as much as she possibly can, usually with her husband, Peter, and writes science fiction under a pen name. Jena’s previous book, Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?, is about the science of love and attraction. The book received a “starred review” in Publishers Weekly and generated widespread media attention, including appearances by the author on ABC’s Good Morning America, Fox News, CBS’ The Early Show, NPR, and coverage in Glamour, Redbook, Newsweek, the New York Post, the New York Daily News, the Washington Post, and the Associated Press.

Dissatisfied by what she could find about some of the odder mysteries surrounding conception and pregnancy, Pincott spent her own pregnancy writing a unique, surprising book for expectant parents. She goes beyond the hazards and health advice in most pregnancy books to delve into what really happens to a woman's body--and baby--during life's most interesting adventure. 256 pp. 75,000 print.