Expecting Better Pregnancy Wisdom, Give Birth Like a Feminist 2 Books Collection

Expecting Better Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom, Give Birth Like a Feminist 2 Books Collection Set Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong and What You Really Need to Know 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 - , 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 , 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 other