Baby Steps: Am I Making The Right Fertility Decisions? Ft. Emily Oster

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🗓️ 3 November 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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On this episode of Baby Steps, presented by BetterHelp, Jordana is joined by one of her favorite authors, economist Emily Oster. They talk about how Jordana’s friends ended up giving her several copies of Emily’s books the moment she started trying to have a baby, and why Emily’s data-driven approach is so helpful to hopeful moms. Emily shares some of the best lessons she’s learned, both from her own experience conceiving, as well as in the years researching the effectiveness of different strategies and decision-making processes. She also shares some fascinating info on how the uncertainty of pregnancy often leads to suboptimal decision making, and why you may want to take bold steps sooner than you’d expect. This is a conversation you’re going to want to hear. Thanks again to our presenting sponsor, BetterHelp! Visit BetterHelp.com/BABYSTEPS today to get 10% off your first month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and
0:05.0	on baby steps presented by Better Help.
0:07.0	I'm your host,
0:08.0	Adana Abraham, and on baby steps we're exploring the various paths to
0:11.0	parenthood that lay ahead when starting a family doesn't come easy.
0:14.5	With the help of weekly guests, I'm taking you on my own fertility journey and asking the questions
0:18.3	that need to be asked.
0:20.3	Trying to have a baby, especially when you experience obstacles, can be a huge emotional and mental challenge.
0:24.7	And that's why I invited better help to join us as the presenting sponsor of baby steps.
0:28.9	If you're thinking of starting therapy, I recommend giving better help a try it's entirely
0:33.8	online convenient and suited to your schedule just go to better help dot com slash baby
0:38.2	steps today to get 10% off your first month that's better help Help, H-E-L-P.com slash baby steps. Therapy can give you the tools
0:46.0	to navigate the difficult transitions in life and the path to parenthood is definitely one of them.
0:50.7	My guest today is Emily Oster, author of expecting better and some of my favorite books and articles about
0:56.2	parenthood and all the things surrounding it. But before we get to Emily as always, here's my sister,
1:01.5	Dr. Naomi Bernstein. I'm so excited for this
1:04.8	guest I can't wait to hear your conversation I love her. So Emily
1:09.0	Auster is like she's an economist what she wouldn't think of as someone you
1:12.3	would go to necessarily for
1:13.9	parenting advice but what I love about her and I follow her on Instagram and I was
1:18.8	the first time I was pregnant someone gave me her book and it was just like a really relaxing way I thought to go into pregnancy because
1:28.0	Basically what she does is like she's not really telling you what to do
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