Expecting Better

Oster challenges the received wisdom on everything from sushi to alcohol during pregnancy. Evidence-based decision making applied to parenthood. The core argument is that most pregnancy advice trades on fear rather than evidence, and informed adults deserve actual risk levels rather than blanket rules. Read it while waiting for our kid. Oster's approach -- here is the data, here is the confidence interval, here is what I actually did -- is the model for how to give advice on anything.