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The First 1,000 Days: A Crucial Time for Mothers and Children-And the World.

While researching my new book, The First 1,000 Days: A Crucial Time for Mothers and Children—And the World, I followed moms and their children in India, Uganda, Guatemala, and Chicago through this most important time of human development. As I first arrived in the village of Rampur Khas, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, a gathering of two dozen new moms and moms-to-be were sitting on the floor of a veranda. It was a communal education class on best nutrition and hygiene practices in the first 1,000 days period, from the time a woman becomes pregnant to the second birthday of her child. The moms had put the lessons to song, the better to remember and spread the word among illiterate and poorly educated women. To the beat of a homemade drum, they sang: