I found this aspect of being told what to do in pregnancy really jarring.

Here's what to do.

Here's a list of foods not to eat with no description of like what would happen if you ate those.

Like would your baby have horns?

You know, like if I have an oyster, like what could happen?

Like I just even like understand is that the same as eating turkey.

And then, you know, I come from a particular angle.

I'm economists.

I work with data.

That's my love language.

It's my area of expertise.

And the data is almost never going to be like, this is the only good choice.

It's almost always going to be like there are cost and benefits to different approaches and

you need to figure out what works for you.

Hi, everybody. Welcome back to big time adult thing. Today I have one of my favorite people

on Instagram, Emily Oster, renowned economist and big time IG economists. Like your,

your Instagram. I think I might be like the biggest Instagram

economist. Yeah, it's fucking great because you're putting out such awesome material, especially for

our demographic of moms. I remember when I first was introduced to your work, which was in

2013 when I was pregnant

with my oldest, and I came across an article written by you because I was probably in a

Google rabbit hole. And I think it popped up. And it was called thinking about pregnancy like an

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