Ep. 43: Should You Sleep Train? Breastfeed? Room Share? Science May Hold the Answer! Talking the Data of Parenthood in the Early Years with Emily Oster, Author of Cribsheet
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Shanna and Laura interview Emily Oster, economist and author of the new book Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool, and they talk about how new parents can use the results of scientific research to guide their parenting decisions on topics such as breastfeeding, sleep training and more. Also, Shanna discusses the upcoming end of her maternity leave, and Laura recounts a remarkable day and night with her baby. Finally, the new moms reveal their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Shanna’s baby is 15 weeks old, and Laura’s baby is 11 weeks old.| This episode's show notes - https://bigfatpositivepodcast.com/ep-43/ | Get social - Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/bfppodcast/ | Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/bigfatpositivepodcast/ | Email - contact@bigfatpositivepodcast.com | Our mom-tested ultimate baby registry list - https://bigfatpositivepodcast.com/registry/
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. |
| 0:05.3 | This week we have our weekly check-ins, and we have an awesome interview with the amazing |
| 0:10.0 | Emily Oster, author of Expecting Better and her new book, Cribsheet, which is about the first two years |
| 0:16.1 | of your baby's life, and we close with BFPs and BFNs. |
| 0:19.7 | Let's get right to it. |
| 0:25.5 | Hi, welcome to the show. Hey, |
| 0:30.2 | Hi, Shauna. So let's start with our weekly check-ins. What's going on with you this week? |
| 0:39.1 | My baby is 15 weeks old now. 15. Yeah, so probably about three and a half months, getting close to four months. |
| 0:43.7 | And something new this week is that she got a spot at daycare. |
| 0:46.8 | Oh, the same one that your older daughter goes to? |
| 0:47.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:52.6 | So the center that my older daughter goes to goes from infancy up to pre-K. |
| 0:57.0 | So it's daycare and preschool, et cetera. So thank God we had kind of a leg up, having a sibling in there because Elle was on the wait list for that facility |
| 1:01.9 | for two and a half years. Wow. And it's really hard to get into. It's a fantastic center. It's where |
| 1:09.4 | we work. So it's really convenient we can take them you |
| 1:12.4 | drop them off and then go to work and she's cecy's been on the list for a few months now and so |
| 1:17.9 | we got her in just in time for me to go back to work oh my god my maternity leave ends in four weeks |
| 1:26.9 | oh my god and oh i'm already dreading it so My maternity leave ends in four weeks. Oh, my God. |
| 1:28.6 | And I'm already dreading it so much. |
| 1:32.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:32.6 | If anyone I work with is listening to this, just kidding. |
| 1:35.7 | I'm so excited to see you and come back. |
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