Almost every woman I have spoken to about pregnancy has a story about her doctor giving her a hard time about her weight. Later in my pregnancy it felt like all of my time with my doctor was focused on how fat I was getting - so fat!
From Emily Oster
The main concern with a very large baby is difficulty in delivery.
Nausea is a normal but unpleasant effect of pregnancy and a really good sign that it is going well. Women who experience nausea in early pregnancy are less likely to miscarry.
I think we've moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose yourself.
To put it mildly, I'm not crazy about the implication that pregnant women are incapable of deciding for themselves.
Because economics is all about optimising, doing the best you can with what you have - it's usually the first place you should look for answers if you want to maximise your happiness.
I travel a fair amount, read on the plane, and I read fast.
For many women - myself included - pregnancy brings on tremendous anxiety and confusion, along with the joy.
Much of what I do in my job is think about whether relationships we see in data are causal, as opposed to just reflecting correlations. It's exactly these issues which come up in evaluating studies in public health.
Even if you are planning a birth with an epidural, the evidence suggests that a doula can help make things go much more smoothly.
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