How To Get Your Relationship Ready For A Baby ft. Emily Oster

We Met At Acme

Dear Media, Lindsey Metselaar

Education, Society & Culture, Relationships, Self-improvement

4.2 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Emily Oster is THE REAL DEAL. She is the CEO of ParentData, a mom of two, a best-selling author, a PhD graduate in economics from Harvard, and a professor of economics at Brown University. You may know her from her book Expecting Better. We discuss getting your relationship ready for a baby, what kind of mom she was, the myths of what you can and can’t do when you’re pregnant, what messes up your kids the most, and so much more.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:18.2	Hey guys, welcome back to We met at Acme.
0:20.5	Today's podcast is with Emily Oster. I am like dying. She was on my
0:25.9	manifestation list and I think I tell her that because I'm so cringe and she's just so wonderful.
0:32.3	She's just such a badass. Like I really, really enjoyed her and she's just a cool person all around. And I think some of the
0:41.1	questions I asked, you're going to be like, wow, I can't believe you asked that. Like, I might
0:44.5	have thought that. So I'm very curious to hear your thoughts on the episode, share it with a friend,
0:49.2	maybe a friend who's expecting, who's trying to conceive, who just had a baby, or just a friend who is curious about
0:56.6	all of the data in the world, you know? Just as a reminder, we're on YouTube, and if you haven't
1:03.3	written a review yet for the pod, please do. And we're also on substack. We met at Acme or we met
1:08.8	at Baby, and I can't wait to hear what you think about Emily.
1:13.3	Enjoy. Hey guys. Welcome back to We met at Acme. I'm so excited to be here with the CEO of Parent Data
1:19.1	Emily Oster. Thanks for having me. I'm excited to be here. I can't believe this. I, you know,
1:24.1	I have a dating podcast and we're starting to talk more about motherhood. And I swear in my vision board, I was like, who's the only person I want to talk to about motherhood and it's you? We start every episode with, and I know this is not your usual question, but what is your favorite romantic gesture? And this is like for your, you know, your spouse to do for your. From my spouse to do. Oh, my God. This, like, my spouse is wonderful. And this is like for your, you know, your spouse to do for my spouse to do.
1:45.9	Oh my God. Like my spouse is wonderful and I love him very much. We're not like really a romantic
1:50.3	gesture kind of. But it doesn't have to be. It could be like when he puts the lid down or when he
1:56.6	like changes the soap dispenser, you know? Yeah. I think it is, I think it is when he turns all the lights off because I leave all the
2:05.0	lights on.
2:05.7	And he doesn't complain.
2:07.0	He just turns them all off.
2:08.4	I love that.
2:09.6	Like the thing about marriage when you married a long time where you like learn the things
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