Description
FREAKONOMICS meets WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING in this groundbreaking guidebook. Award-winning Emily Oster debunks myths about pregnancy to empower women whilst they’re expecting.
Pregnancy is full of rules. Pregnant women are steadily treated as if they were children, given long lists of items to avoid-alcohol, caffeine, sushi- without any real explanation from their doctors about why. They hear frightening and contradictory myths about everything from weight gain to sleeping on your back to bed rest from friends and pregnancy books. In EXPECTING BETTER, Oster shows that the information given to pregnant women is once in a while incorrect and almost at all times oversimplified.
When Oster used to be expecting her first child, she felt powerless to make the right decisions for her pregnancy so Oster drew on her own experience and went on the lookout for the real facts about pregnancy the use of an economist’s tools. Economics is the science of determining value and making informed decisions. To make a good decision, you wish to have to remember the information available to you and to know what it means to you as an individual.
EXPECTING BETTER overturns standard recommendations for alcohol, caffeine, sushi, bed rest, and induction whilst putting in context the blanket guidelines for fetal testing, weight gain, risks of pregnancy over the age of thirty-five, and nausea, among others.
Oster offers the real-world advice one would never get at the doctor’s office. Knowing that the health of your baby is paramount, readers can know more and worry less. Having the numbers is a tremendous relief-and so is the occasional glass of wine.
This groundbreaking guidebook is as fascinating as it is practical.
