Episode · On Purpose with Jay Shetty · 2026-04-13
Books mentioned on #1 Parenting Myth That’s Making You More Anxious (And Why It’s False..)
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Passing Expecting better
“And today we're joined by best-selling author and economist Emily Oster, whose books Expecting Better and Cribsheet sparked a global conversation about what the data actually says.”
Passing Cribsheet
“And today we're joined by best-selling author and economist Emily Oster, whose books Expecting Better and Cribsheet sparked a global conversation about what the data actually says.”
Plugged Expecting better
“So when I was working on Expecting Better, uh I one of the things I looked at was bed rest, um which, you know, is actually prescribed to a fairly large share of people for a lot of different complications.”
Plugged Expecting better
“I mean, I will say, like, I you know, in my mother, when I was writing all these books about pregnancy, I read both the set of pregnancy books that my grandmother had in like the you know, 1940s '40s and the ones that my mom had in like the early 1980s. ... So, I'd written Expecting Better, which is”
Plugged Cribsheet
“But, I think the thing that ultimately pushed me over into writing Cribsheet, which talks all about breastfeeding among many other things, is the emails that I kept getting from dads.”