\"Expecting Better : Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong--And What You \"

\"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 What to Expect When You're Expecting meets Freakonomics an award-winning economist and author of Cribsheet The Family Firm and The Unexpected disproves standard recommendations about pregnancy to empower women while they're expecting. Pregnancy--unquestionably one of the most pro­found 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 sh