--- product_id: 659177000 title: "Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong and What You Really Need to Know" price: "₩55783" currency: KRW in_stock: true reviews_count: 7 url: https://www.desertcart.kr/products/659177000-expecting-better-why-the-conventional-pregnancy-wisdom-is-wrong-what store_origin: KR region: South Korea --- # English language edition 2024 release date Paperback format Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong and What You Really Need to Know **Price:** ₩55783 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 📖 Expect pregnancy smarter, not harder — knowledge is your best prenatal glow-up! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong and What You Really Need to Know - **How much does it cost?** ₩55783 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.kr](https://www.desertcart.kr/products/659177000-expecting-better-why-the-conventional-pregnancy-wisdom-is-wrong-what) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Myth-Busting Clarity:** Debunks common pregnancy misconceptions on alcohol, caffeine, sushi, and more with clear, research-backed facts. - • **Modern Pregnancy Guide:** Combines the rigor of Freakonomics with approachable pregnancy advice for the savvy professional. - • **Real-World Decision Support:** Provides actionable advice you won’t get at the doctor’s office, helping you make confident choices. - • **Data-Driven Pregnancy Wisdom:** Empowers millennial moms with evidence-based insights, cutting through outdated myths. - • **Empowerment Through Knowledge:** Transforms anxiety into confidence by putting pregnancy risks and recommendations into perspective. ## Overview Expecting Better by Emily Oster is a 2024 paperback guide that revolutionizes pregnancy advice by replacing fear-based myths with data-driven facts. Written in English and published by Orion Spring, it empowers expecting mothers to make informed decisions with confidence, challenging conventional wisdom on topics like alcohol, caffeine, and fetal testing. ## Description A groundbreaking guide to pregnancy: empowers women with the facts and allows them to make their own decisions. FREAKANOMICS meets WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU'RE EXPECTING. 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 - alcohol, 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 alcohol, 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 others. Oster offers the real-world advice one would never get at the doctor's office. Knowing that the health of your baby is paramount, readers can know more and worry less. Having the numbers is a tremendous relief - and so is the occasional glass of wine. Review: Great read! - I found this book to be invaluable as I made decisions in my pregnancy. I felt confident and informed in the choices I have made. Review: I got as far as the preface and am returning it. - I couldn’t get past her recommendation of getting the seasonal flu vaccines. If she was truly well researched she’d know just how harmful they are and how much mercury, aluminum and formaldehyde lies in them. Sorry, can’t continue. Gave it 2 stars instead of 1, as I’m assuming there must be at least some truthful information in it. ## Features - Binding: paperback - Language: english - Manufacturer: Orion Spring - Publication date: 2024-09-05T00:00:01Z ## Images ![Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong and What You Really Need to Know - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71ArvY34SPL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great read! *by L***E on 27 July 2022* I found this book to be invaluable as I made decisions in my pregnancy. I felt confident and informed in the choices I have made. ### ⭐⭐ I got as far as the preface and am returning it. *by A***. on 20 May 2025* I couldn’t get past her recommendation of getting the seasonal flu vaccines. If she was truly well researched she’d know just how harmful they are and how much mercury, aluminum and formaldehyde lies in them. Sorry, can’t continue. Gave it 2 stars instead of 1, as I’m assuming there must be at least some truthful information in it. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Buen libro *by C***Z on 15 May 2023* Es el único libro que me he leído para embarazadas porque está completamente basado en datos. 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