How To Be Human, by Sarah K Peck

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What's The Deal With All These Pregnancy Rules? (Emily Oster)

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Sarah K Peck
May 02, 2022
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Never drink coffee! Don’t have sushi! And cats are dangerous!

Getting pregnant means entering into a world of advice and fear about all the things that could potentially go wrong.

But what does the data say? Are these “pregnancy rules” based on truth or myth?

When economist Emily Oster got pregnant, she also got curious about the advice she was getting. So…

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