Expecting Better: Debunking Common Parenting Myths with Emily Oster

Other Peoples Parenting · Sep 30, 2026 · 1h 2m · transcript

In this episode of Other People’s Parenting, mother-daughter duo Karen Quinn and Schuyler Hurwitz review Emily Oster’s Expecting Better – Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong – and What You Really Need to Know. Oster is an Economics Professor who uses her training to separate good research studies from less good ones. After she became pregnant, she began researching the advice doctors had been giving her based on these studies. What she discovered was that pregnancy suffers from a lot of misinformation! Some studies are better than others and you can’t make decisions about your own…