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An award-winning social scientist uses the tools of economics to debunk myths about pregnancy and to empower women to make better decisions while they?re expectingPregnancy is full of rules. 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. Award-winning economist Emily Oster believes there is a better way. In Expecting Better, Oster shows that the information given to pregnant women is sometimes wrong and almost always oversimplified, and she debunks a host of standard recommendations on everything from drinking to fetal testing. When Oster was expecting her first child, she felt powerless to make the right decisions for her pregnancy. How doctors think and what patients need are two very different things.
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