Heidi Murkoff: ...what to expect when you're expecting

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Entrepreneurship, Business

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Our guest on this episode. Heidi Murkoff, is the author of "What to Expect When You’re Expecting", which is the longest-running title of all time on The New York Times bestseller list. The "What to Expect" books have sold more than 42 million copies and are published in 38 countries and in 44 languages. Hear how the books came about and what's changed for expectant mothers since the 1980's. Check out the website whattoexpect.com.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:13.2	I'm Laura Owens, and I'm Jan Black.
0:15.6	We're a mother-daughter duo, and we're so excited to welcome our guest on this episode,
0:20.5	Heidi Murkoff, who's been
0:21.9	very influential in the pregnancies of millions of women since the 1980s, my own mother
0:27.8	included. Exactly. And Heidi is the author of the book, What to Expect When You're Expect,
0:33.5	which is the longest running title of all time on the New York Times bestseller list.
0:38.6	It has been called the pregnancy Bible.
0:41.1	And it was my Bible when I had my first daughter, Sarah, and a couple of years after that,
0:45.4	when I was pregnant with my now co-host, Laura.
0:48.8	So, Heidi, it's great to welcome you to our show.
0:52.0	Thank you.
0:52.5	It's so great to be with both of you.
0:54.5	Two generations for the price of one. I love it. You know, I interviewed you back in the 1980s a few
1:02.2	years after what to expect when you're expecting was first published. And I'm wondering,
1:07.4	what's different about pregnancy nowadays compared to those days when you and I were first
1:12.5	pregnant in the 80s?
1:14.1	Oh, my God.
1:14.6	Well, hey, let's face it, some things are never going to change as much as we'd like them
1:18.9	to change.
1:20.3	You're still queasy and constipated and bloated.
1:23.7	You still have mood swings.
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