Hello and welcome to an unbelievably special crib sheet edition of Slate Money. Normally your guide to the business and finance news of the week but we are zooming back and out and up this

week because the most special guest is in the studio with us.

I am Felix Simon of Axios. Emily Peck of the Huffington Post is here.

Anna Schmansky is also here. But most excitingly, Emily

Auster is here., welcome. Thank you.

We are going to talk about both of your books this week because they're both amazing,

but tell us what they both are.

The first one's called Expecting Better, why the conventional pregnancy wisdom is wrong, and what you really need to know.

It's about pregnancy and data. And the new book is called Cribb Sheet, a data-driven guide to better, more

relaxed parenting from birth to preschool. You really love the long

subtitles. I do I like the short first title on the long and the long

subtitles. I think I don't have any control of the titles. They just were given to me.

You get given the subtitle and then you write a whole book off it.

Exactly. We're going to be talking about rest feeling, lots of breastfeeding, and

vaccination of course, and co-sleeeping and parental intuition and birth rates and all manner of stuff.

It's going to be an amazing show and we also have a really kind of awesome

slate plus segment about women in the economics profession

so you're going to love this episode stay tuned for this week's edition of slate

money so this is the first book right it's basically this week's so there's no of slate money.

So this is the first book, right?

It's basically most people get too stressed

about most aspects of pregnancy

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