this idea of just caution above all else in both pregnancy and parenting.

Of course, we all want to be very cautious, but at the same time, there's literally no evidence

for something and you yourself would benefit from doing it.

It's not always obvious which direction caution goes.

Hello, folks. Welcome back to the WOOP podcast.

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whoop.com. All right. This week's episode, Woop, SVP of research, algorithms, and data, Emily

Capital Lupo, is joined by another Emily. Emily Oster. She is an economist,

university professor, an author specializing in development economics and health economics.

Emily is also the CEO of Parent Data, an organization focusing on making scientific research

digestible for parents and families. By collecting data and research about

parenting, pregnancy, and overall personal health, Emily aims to use her expertise to clear up

many of the questions she herself had during her own pregnancy. The pair discuss how Emily

went from economists to parenting expert, writing her first book in dealing with pushback,

starting parent data and delivering analytics and research to parenting expert, writing her first book in dealing with pushback, starting parent data and delivering analytics and research to parenting, preparing for pregnancy and life as a parent,

the lack of research on pregnancy and how we can change that, and debunking some common parenting

myths. If you have a question was answered on the podcast, email us, podcast atoop.com.

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