Expecting Better

Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong and What You Really Need to Know

By: Emily Oster

Narrated by: Emily Oster, Jonathan Todd Ross

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, listeners can know more and worry less. Having the numbers is a tremendous relief - and so is the occasional glass of wine.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2013 Emily Oster (P)2024 Orion Publishing Group Limited

Factfulness Meets Pregnancy

✨ Expecting Better was such a treasure! I first heard about it on the Betches podcast, and it completely transformed my pregnancy experience. What I loved most is that it’s not about telling you what’s “right” or “wrong,” but about giving you clear, evidence-based information so you can make informed decisions for yourself. It felt like Factfulness, but for pregnancy. Such a great, empowering read—I absolutely loved it!