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Emily Oster has a knack for using data to help expecting parents find the best care.
Oster is an economist at Brown University.
She's written several books on parenting and also writes the newsletter parent data.
Back in 2013, her book expecting better helped people navigate bad conventional pregnancy wisdom.
Fast forward to 2024.
Ostra has a new book that arms.
People with more data and more knowledge.
About what to do during especially difficult pregnancies.
She co wrote it with Doctor Nathan Fox, a maternal fetal medicine specialist.
It's called the unexpected navigating pregnancy during and after complications.
This episode of Life Kit, my conversation with Emily Oster.
You know, early on you write, what is different about this book is that I hope you do not have to read it.
It is odd to write a book.
That you hope people will not read.
Why did you focus on this particular.
Topic in the decade or so since expecting better has come out?
I have talked to thousands of women about pregnancy, and a lot of those conversations are about, I had this complication during pregnancy.