Anticipating Higher: Why the Typical Being pregnant Knowledge Is Fallacious–and What You Actually Have to Know (The ParentData Collection)
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“Emily Oster is the non-judgmental girlfriend holding our hand and guiding us by way of being pregnant and motherhood. She has completed the work to get us the laborious information in a mushy, comprehensible method.” —Amy Schumer
The award-winning economist named one in all TIME Journal’s 100 most influential folks disproves customary suggestions about being pregnant to empower ladies whereas they’re anticipating.
Being pregnant—unquestionably probably the most professionaldiscovered, significant experiences of maturity—can cut back in any other case clever ladies to, nicely, infants. Pregnant ladies are instructed to keep away from chilly cuts, sushi, alcohol, and low with out ever being instructed why these are forbidden. Guidelines for prenatal testing are equally unexplained. Mother and father-to-be desperately desire a useful resource that empowers them to make their very own proper selections.
When award-winning economist Emily Oster was a mom-to-be herself, she evaluated the information behind the accepted guidelines of being pregnant, and found that almost all are sometimes misguided and a few are simply flat-out unsuitable. Debunking myths and explaining all the things from the actual results of caffeine to the shocking risks of gardening, Anticipating Higher is the e book for each pregnant lady who desires to get pleasure from a wholesome and relaxed being pregnant—and the occasional glass of wine.
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What to Count on When You are Anticipating meets Freakonomics: an award-winning economist disproves customary suggestions about being pregnant to empower ladies whereas they’re anticipating. An information-driven information to higher, extra relaxed parenting, from beginning to preschool, overlaying subjects together with feeding, sleep, and potty coaching. Oster gives a traditional enterprise college framework for data-driven mother and father to assume extra intentionally about the important thing problems with the elementary years: college, well being, extracurricular actions, and extra. A information to navigating a second being pregnant when the primary didn’t go as deliberate—with Dr. Nathan Fox, maternal fetal drugs specialist.
Writer : Penguin Books; 1st version (June 24, 2014)
Language : English
Paperback : 384 pages
ISBN-10 : 0143125702
ISBN-13 : 978-0143125709
Merchandise Weight : 10.9 ounces
Dimensions : 5.45 x 0.78 x 8.38 inches
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Gloria –
a great and easy read!
it was great to read the research that was done on myths during pregnancy. this books really helps with worries you might have about different things you can do during pregnancy
il12345 –
Must read as soon as youâre pregnant!
I read this during my first trimester with my first pregnancy and Iâm so so grateful I did. This solid, evidence based book provided me with information on all the questions I ever had.I found that people always throw advice my way and can leave me with extra uncertainty or anxiety. After reading this book, Iâm confident in my decisions during pregnancy and donât follow any âtrendsâ that arenât necessary. This book took so much of my anxiety away!
Amazon Customer –
The Only Pregnancy Book Youâll Need
I returned What to Expect When Youâre Expecting as soon as I opened it. This book though, I read cover to cover within a day of getting it and my pregnancy anxiety vanished. I finished this book feeling like an informed and highly educated mom. Kudos to the author for the work it took to write such an informative book while making the read so pleasant, easy, and funny!
J. Waldman –
Fascinating, well-grounded, and friendly
The instant you mention that you’re trying to get pregnant, people start giving you long lists of books that you “absolutely have to read”. This was the first one I convinced myself to pick up, and I’m glad I did. It presents a thoughtful discussion of a number of the issues prospective parents face, throughout the process of conception, pregnancy, and birth. The author has citations to academic research for everything, so an interested reader can easily go look up the papers, but the book is far from an academic tome. I appreciated its friendly and casual tone, and its trust that the reader is a reasonable person with a basic level of common sense and numeracy, worked well for me — my background is in physics, not economics, but I found it a quick read with intuitively clear explanations. I enjoyed the author’s jokes and liked her a great deal as a person by the time I finished it.Minor quibbles — I got the impression that the author’s most controversial claim, that drinking in the first couple weeks of pregnancy (before you know you’re pregnant), including to excess, is probably fine, is also her least well-supported claim. Everything else is supported by lots of empirical evidence; that claim is supported by some potentially shaky reasoning about biology (I’m a physicist, she’s an economist, I’m not sure if either of us really has any clue what we’re talking about) and her anecdotal experience that it was fine for her. I found her treatment of weight loss before trying to conceive to be somewhat cursory and insensitive, failing to address confounding variables like PCOS which cause both weight gain and infertility, and making the bizarre assumption that dramatic weight loss is actually a reasonable thing to expect of someone. I occasionally found myself wanting a deeper scientific treatment of the topics she discussed, but this seemed like a good start, filling me in both on what I can expect people to say to me, and how much of it is actually supported by research.Overall, a fascinating, well-grounded, and reassuring read. Definitely worth whatever I paid to read it on my phone over a weekend.
Amanda Hill –
Very helpful if you want to know more than black and white do’s and don’ts
This was exactly the kind of book I needed. I have a biology degree, so I hate it when doctors talk to me like I don’t know anything about how science or the human body works. Some doctors are better about that than others. Unfortunately my obgyn is one of the usual kinds that just gave me a list of drugs I’m allowed to take and foods I’m not allowed to eat with no explanation. My husband and I immediately started wondering how they arrived at this list. Are these drugs that have been proven to be safe, or ones that haven’t been proven to not be safe? Are these foods especially dangerous during pregnancy, or just foods they think are unhealthy in general (my do-not-eat list even included pasta, refined sugar, fast food, etc.).So this book gives you the actual evidence for all these recommendations. I found the section on drugs especially interesting, because they’re actually put into several categories based on how much evidence they have for their safety. Class A and B have evidence showing they are safe, Class C don’t have much evidence one way or the other, Class D have evidence they are unsafe, but they treat a serious condition that is also unsafe for your pregnancy so it might be worth taking them if you have that condition, and Class X are drugs that are unsafe and not worth taking under any circumstances.And it turns out that some of the “forbidden foods” aren’t any more dangerous to eat when you are pregnant than when you are not pregnant, while some of them really are more dangerous when pregnant. Maybe my doctor doesn’t think that’s an important distinction, but I do. The book didn’t even mention pasta, but when I had morning sickness, starchy foods like pasta and bread were some of the few things I could easily eat, so I think my doctor just had pasta (and sweets, and fast food) on the list because eating too much might make me gain too much weight. I can’t find anywhere else that says that pasta is especially dangerous to eat when you are pregnant, and then this book even goes on to say that gaining a little too much weight isn’t that bad, so I’m still eating pasta.I am avoiding the foods that are on the list because they are more likely to contain bacteria that can make you sick, even though the book says Salmonella isn’t any worse for you when you are pregnant than when you aren’t (but Listeria and toxoplasmosis are). Salmonella poisoning is no fun, and I don’t need that extra stress on top of being pregnant, so I’m avoiding those foods even though the book says I’d probably be OK if I ate them anyway. I also gave up alcohol completely, even though the book said an occasional drink is probably OK, but I just couldn’t give up coffee, so I just cut back.As others have said, this book is great if you want to make your own informed decisions, instead of being treated like you are stupid and incapable of understanding nuance and uncertainty. It’s also reassuring to know that if you drank that one class of wine, ate a little blue cheese, took a Class C drug, or gained 5 pounds above the recommended amount, you probably haven’t done serious harm to your fetus. Being pregnant is stressful enough already without having to add any unnecessary worry on top of that.After reading this book, I’m definitely ordering Cribsheet next, before the baby arrives.
Beatriz Amaro –
Uno de los mejores libros de embarazo, ya que te da todos los argumentos para que tú tomes decisiones en tu embarazo basadas en miles de estudios realizados en todo el mundo.
A –
Interesting book for new moms or mom’s to be, pretty detailed and also shares the scientific information and research about the body.
Lindsay L –
Every woman should be given a chance to read this book – the author explains that every pregnancy is different and different women faced with the same information may make a different choice which is right for them. Oster debunks various pregnancy myths in a way that is informative and not alarmist. She does give you her opinion but also arms you with the information you need to form your own. You do need to have some interest in the research and data but she brings everything together in a way that is relatively easy to understand. I would say about half the book deals with conception and the first trimester so it makes for an excellent read even pre-conception. I feel much less freaked out having read it, which is no small feat. Highly recommend.
Anestis –
Puts things into perspective and helps with ease your mind into your first pregnancy. A good data driven approach that I really appreciated !
Casilda Perez –
Es el único libro que me he leÃdo para embarazadas porque está completamente basado en datos. Esta bien para desmentir algunos mitos y ayudarte con consejos importantes