Why the conventional pregnancy wisdom is wrongand what you really need to know. Pregnancyunquestionably one of the most profound, meaningful experiences of adulthoodcan reduce otherwise intelligent women to, well, babies. In the following excerpt from the books introduction, oster explains why she started. Why the conventional pregnancy wisdom is wrongand what you. From start to finish, oster easily leads us through the key findings of the extant pregnancyrelated research. An awardwinning, forprofit social enterprise and a global eretailer that collects and sells used books online with a.
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Click and collect from your local waterstones or get free uk delivery on orders. Oster offers the realworld advice one would never get at the doctors office. Expecting better at amazon oster, who was trained as a statistician, evaluates the data behind conventional pregnancy rules. The 8 best pregnancy books of 2020 verywell family.
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