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From the New York Times bestselling author of THE FAMILY FIRM,
comes a practical exploration on how second (and later) pregnancies
can feel different to the first time around. On what can feel like
uneven terrain, navigating or planning a pregnancy after
complications can plunge you into an unfamiliar world of
decision-making; conversations with medical providers can be hard
and scary, and with a lack of information given to you, it can feel
like you aren't given any choices about what happens to you at all.
Second pregnancies can present you with a whole new set of
questions and perspectives on your experience, body and wellbeing.
And with around 50% of pregnancies experiencing complications, this
means as much as half of later pregnancies carry this extra layer
of difficulty. Will the experience of conception and pregnancy
(good or bad) be the same this time around? How do you navigate
pregnancy and birth with a child already around? Perhaps above all:
how can you make the best decisions for yourself? THE UNEXPECTED
will answer these questions, and many more.
'Emily Oster is the non-judgemental girlfriend holding our hand and
guiding us through pregnancy and motherhood. She has done the work
to get us the hard facts in a soft, understandable way' Amy Schumer
Parenting is full of decisions, nearly all of which can be agonized
over. There is an abundance of often-conflicting advice hurled at
you from doctors, family, friends, and strangers on the internet.
But the benefits of these choices can be overstated, and the
trade-offs can be profound. How do you make your own best decision?
Armed with the data, Oster finds that the conventional wisdom
doesn't always hold up. She debunks myths and offers
non-judgemental ways to consider our options in light of the facts.
Cribsheet is a thinking parent's guide that empowers us to make
better, less fraught decisions - and stay sane in the years before
preschool.
From the author of Expecting Better and The Family Firm, an
economist's guide to the early years of parenting. "Both refreshing
and useful. With so many parenting theories driving us all a bit
batty, this is the type of book that we need to help calm things
down." -LA Times "The book is jampacked with information, but it's
also a delightful read because Oster is such a good writer." -NPR
With Expecting Better, award-winning economist Emily Oster spotted
a need in the pregnancy market for advice that gave women the
information they needed to make the best decision for their own
pregnancies. By digging into the data, Oster found that much of the
conventional pregnancy wisdom was wrong. In Cribsheet, she now
tackles an even greater challenge: decision-making in the early
years of parenting. As any new parent knows, there is an abundance
of often-conflicting advice hurled at you from doctors, family,
friends, and strangers on the internet. From the earliest days,
parents get the message that they must make certain choices around
feeding, sleep, and schedule or all will be lost. There's a rule-or
three-for everything. But the benefits of these choices can be
overstated, and the trade-offs can be profound. How do you make
your own best decision? Armed with the data, Oster finds that the
conventional wisdom doesn't always hold up. She debunks myths
around breastfeeding (not a panacea), sleep training (not so bad!),
potty training (wait until they're ready or possibly bribe with
M&Ms), language acquisition (early talkers aren't necessarily
geniuses), and many other topics. She also shows parents how to
think through freighted questions like if and how to go back to
work, how to think about toddler discipline, and how to have a
relationship and parent at the same time. Economics is the science
of decision-making, and Cribsheet is a thinking parent's guide to
the chaos and frequent misinformation of the early years. Emily
Oster is a trained expert-and mom of two-who can empower us to make
better, less fraught decisions-and stay sane in the years before
preschool.
A groundbreaking guide to pregnancy: empowers women with the facts
and allows them to make their own decisions. FREAKANOMICS meets
WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU'RE EXPECTING. Award-winning Emily Oster
debunks myths about pregnancy to empower women while they're
expecting. Pregnant women are often 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 sometimes wrong and almost
always oversimplified. EXPECTING BETTER overturns standard
recommendations for alcohol, caffeine, sushi, bed rest and
induction, while putting in context the blanket guidelines for
fetal testing, weight gain, risks of pregnancy over the age of 35,
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.
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Chart a child's path with
less stress and more optimization for healthy habits and future
success' Time From age 5 to 12, parenting decisions get more
complicated and have lasting consequences. What's the right kind of
school? Should they play a sport? When's the right time for a
phone? Making these decisions is less about finding the specific
answer and more about taking the right approach. Along with these
bigger questions, Oster investigates how to navigate the complexity
of day-to-day family logistics. The Family Firm is a smart and
winning guide to how to think more clearly - and with less ambient
stress - about the key decisions of these early years.
The instant New York Times bestseller! * One of Behavioral
Scientist's Notable Books of 2021 "Emily Oster dives into the data
on parenting issues, cuts through the clutter, and gives families
the bottom line to help them make better decisions." -Good Morning
America "A targeted mini-MBA program designed to help moms and dads
establish best practices for day-to-day operations." -The
Washington Post From the bestselling author of Expecting Better and
Cribsheet, the next step in data driven parenting from economist
Emily Oster. In The Family Firm, Brown professor of economics and
mom of two Emily Oster offers a classic business school framework
for data-driven parents to think more deliberately about the key
issues of the elementary years: school, health, extracurricular
activities, and more. Unlike the hourly challenges of infant
parenting, the big questions in this age come up less frequently.
But we live with the consequences of our decisions for much longer.
What's the right kind of school and at what age should a particular
kid start? How do you encourage a healthy diet? Should kids play a
sport and how seriously? How do you think smartly about encouraging
children's independence? Along with these bigger questions, Oster
investigates how to navigate the complexity of day-to-day family
logistics. Making these decisions is less about finding the
specific answer and more about taking the right approach. Parents
of this age are often still working in baby mode, which is to say,
under stress and on the fly. That is a classic management problem,
and Oster takes a page from her time as a business school professor
at the University of Chicago to show us that thoughtful business
process can help smooth out tough family decisions. The Family Firm
is a smart and winning guide to how to think clearly--and with less
ambient stress--about the key decisions of the elementary school
years. Parenting is a full-time job. It's time we start treating it
like one.
A groundbreaking guide to pregnancy: empowers women with the facts
and allows them to make their own decisions. FREAKANOMICS meets
WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU'RE EXPECTING. Award-winning Emily Oster
debunks myths about pregnancy to empower women while they're
expecting. Pregnant women are often 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 sometimes wrong and almost
always oversimplified. EXPECTING BETTER overturns standard
recommendations for alcohol, caffeine, sushi, bed rest and
induction, while putting in context the blanket guidelines for
fetal testing, weight gain, risks of pregnancy over the age of 35,
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.
"Emily Oster is the non-judgmental girlfriend holding our hand and
guiding us through pregnancy and motherhood. She has done the work
to get us the hard facts in a soft, understandable way." -Amy
Schumer *Fully Revised and Updated for 2021* 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. From the author of Cribsheet and The
Family Firm, a data-driven decision making guide to the early years
of parenting Pregnancy-unquestionably one of the most pro found,
meaningful experiences of adulthood-can 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-and the occasional glass of wine.
This classic psychological case study focuses on one talkative
child's emerging ability to use language, her capacity for
understanding, for imagining, and for making inferences and solving
problems. In wide-ranging essays, scholars offer multifaceted
linguistic and psychological analyses of two-year-old Emily's
bedtime conversations with her parents and pre-sleep monologues,
taped over a fifteen-month period. In a foreword written for this
new edition, Emily, now an adult, reflects on the experience of
having been a research subject without knowing it.
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