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My littlest guy arrived. Marshall aka “Mars” born 1/29 💕 we‘re home, we‘re happy, healthy & trying to figure out what to do with our hands.

A review & an announcement
💙I‘m growing a little dude, due February 2025 💙

Read (my 1st pregnancy book!) with the obvious motivation of confirming my own biases 😂 which worked like a charm. While I won‘t take all her research to heart (a glass of wine with dinner just feels wrong), there were a few things that made me think further (genetic testing, birth plans) & copious amounts of data that proved my intuition right (cats, sushi, epidurals)

My books for 2022. Hoping I read more in 2023!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This book is full of information and teaches you to think for yourself when it comes to pregnancy and birth decisions. There‘s also a lot of fact without judgement. I think it‘s invaluable and I‘m going to recommend it now to all of my pregnant friends and those who are thinking about getting pregnant. HIGHLY recommend!!!

Wish I‘d started this sooner! Such a great insight into the data! Oster is really great at providing the facts and letting you draw your own conclusions. Very easy to read and not judgemental at all. Loved it 👍

It is a great easy read. It provides positives and negatives to decisions made throughout the pregnancy without making the reader feel like they HAVE to do it her way. Very open-minded, provides great resources and simple read. My favorite thing about the book is Oster provides her decisions along with other women's to add a variety. Ultimately as a parent, its good to be informed but do what YOU feel is best, not what is pressured on you.

Oster lays out the latest research on common pregnancy fears, myths and questions in this accessible and informative book -- highly recommended for first-timers!

Read October 20-26
Book 56/55

Great book for pregnancy. One of the only books that did not talk down to women and instead gave them real facts and information to make their own informed decisions!

Guess I know what the next few months of reading will be!!! ❤️ So excited to be a first time mom, but also terrified. I've only read a few pages of this and it's making me feel better and empowered already. #firsttimemommy #futurelitsybaby #futurereader #babybook #slightlyterrifired

My mom had this bookish/writerly onesie ready before we even told her the news...👶🏼📚

#DNF because our little nugget decided to arrive eight weeks early.... thus nullifying the need for me to finish reading about the third trimester. 🙈

I‘ve known my son for less than 12 hours & I‘m already so in love! He‘s 4lbs 8oz of perfection & we couldn‘t be happier. 👪

I took a ton of notes while reading this, and I've given it to my husband to read before I return it to the library! I love this economist's review of many of the choices and myths regarding conception and pregnancy. It's not perfect--I would have loved more data on more things and the author is annoyingly flip about some options, but the focus on data and personal decisions is well worth reading for anyone who is pregnant or hopes to become so.

An economist's take on pregnancy do's and dont's was exactly the book I wanted to read.

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