num_pages: 313
description: What to Expect When You're Expecting meets Freakonomics: an award-winning economist disproves standard recommendations about pregnancy to empower women while they're expecting.Pregnancyunquestionably one of the most profound meaningful experiences of adulthoodcan reduce otherwise intelligent women to well babies. Pregnant women are told to avoid cold cuts sushi alcohol and coffee without ever being told why these are forbidden. Rules for prenatal testing are similarly unexplained. Moms-to-be desperately want a resource that empowers them to make their own right choices.When award-winning economist Emily Oster was a mom-to-be herself she evaluated the data behind the accepted rules of pregnancy and discovered that most are often misguided and some are just flat-out wrong. Debunking myths and explaining everything from the real effects of caffeine to the surprising dangers of gardening Expecting Better is the book for every pregnant woman who wants to enjoy a healthy and relaxed pregnancy.
language: English
title: Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong - and What You Really Need to Know
publisher: Penguin Pr