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# Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong and What You Really Need to Know Paperback – 9 Aug. 2018

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**Price:** 144 DH
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- **What is this?** Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong and What You Really Need to Know Paperback – 9 Aug. 2018 by emily oster
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Everybody trying for a baby needs to read this
*by C***M on 8 May 2025*

My sister recommended this book to me and now I want to recommend it to everyone expecting or trying for a baby, including men! It completely debunks all of the myths we’ve been fed about trying to conceive and what we should and shouldn’t be doing whilst pregnant. Using insights from sooo much research, it’s crazy that no one hasn’t thought to do this before. Game changer of a book!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Finally some common sense on pregnancy guidelines
*by P***D on 24 August 2013*

The author of this book, Emily Oster, is an economics professor from the University of Chicago. I first heard about her on the Radio 4 programme 'More or Less', when someone was describing this book. She starts with the idea that in order to make sensible decisions about what to do and not to do when pregnant, you need information on the risks, combined with your personal information about what the pros and cons are.I think this is an excellent book. It doesn't set out the dos and don'ts, so if you're just looking for a list of rules to follow, or something that deals with every possible question, you're better off with 'What to Expect'. But if you want to know *why* you are being told to conform to so many rules, and the evidence behind them, this is a book for you.It's well written, and with a sense of humour as well as an analytical mind. It probably helps that I have a bit of an analytical background myself, and work with economists, but I think the language is easily understandable. It also includes plenty of anecdotes from her personal experience and that of her friends, which makes it very approachable, without compromising the information about evidence.She seems to have received most attention for her chapter on caffeine and alcohol, where she tries to separate out the risks of heavy consumption (bad in both cases) from the risks of low but not zero consumption. For instance, I had no idea that although caffeine consumption is linked to miscarriage, women who are nauseous are less likely to be drinking coffee, and nausea is a symptom that means you are less likely to miscarry. So it's possible (at least at low levels) that the women drinking coffee are just less likely to be the ones feeling sick.She seems to have received some criticism for saying it's OK to drink. She is emphatically not instructing anyone to behave one way or another, but instead presenting the evidence and the risks in a way that allows someone to decide for themselves. Personally, I really appreciate someone explaining what is going on, and what the evidence is for why you should do something - it makes much more sense to me than a simple rule that applies to everyone, when everyone is different.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A book to make you grateful for the NHS
*by C***E on 6 May 2024*

This book is informative and reassuring - but mostly just makes you grateful that we have the NHS with its central and well evidenced guidance, versus what appears to be the Wild West of healthcare in the US. All guidance seems to be pretty in line with what the NHS tell you, however a digestible and easy to read way to read up on academic research into pregnancy and childbirth. Limited adaptation evident for the UK market. Not a book to prioritise if you’ve got a long list!

## Frequently Bought Together

- Expecting Better
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- What to Expect When You're Expecting: (Updated in 2024)

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