Parenting is full of decisions — starting the moment you learn you’re pregnant (sometimes before) and continuing indefinitely. For the past decade, Emily Oster has been a guide through the challenges of pregnancy and parenthood using data. She translates the latest scientific research into answers to the questions people have in their day-to-day lives. ParentData brings Emily together with other experts in areas of pregnancy and parenting to talk about some of the most complicated of these issues, from labor induction to food allergies to parenting through a divorce. Each conversation brings us closer to Emily’s mission: to create the most informed generation of parents by providing high-quality data that they can trust, whenever they need it.
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Parenting is full of decisions — starting the moment you learn you’re pregnant (sometimes before) and continuing indefinitely. For the past decade, Emily Oster has been a guide through the challenges of pregnancy and parenthood using data. She translates the latest scientific research into answers to the questions people have in their day-to-day lives. ParentData brings Emily together with other experts in areas of pregnancy and parenting to talk about some of the most complicated of these issues, from labor induction to food allergies to parenting through a divorce. Each conversation brings us closer to Emily’s mission: to create the most informed generation of parents by providing high-quality data that they can trust, whenever they need it.
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49hr 14min
Better Sleep for Older Kids—And Their Parents: Making a plan, post-crib
How to Talk to Your Doctor About Risk: Lessons from our book, “The Unexpected”
Doula For All: How Senator Samra Brouk is changing birth in New York
Bonus Episode: Dr. Becky and the Bad Therapy Conversation
Parenting Trends Throughout History: We’ve always done it wrong … and also right
How to Create Community: Showing up for each other in a spiritual and secular world
Birth Control After Kids: IUDs and vasectomies and tubal ligation, oh my!
Household Division of Labor: Making the invisible work fair, if not equal
Let’s Talk About Sex (After) Baby: Staying connected over the long term
Staying Active, Starting Again: Exercise in pregnancy and postpartum
Learning to Speak: Understanding the babbling black box
Bonus: Telling the Truth About Marriage with Young Kids with Majka Burhardt
Parenting Through Grief: The impossible state of needing while giving
Choosing to Induce: How a randomized trial gave birth to a new era in obstetrics
Self-Care without Candles: Redefining Wellness for Parents
How to Weigh the Risks of Social Media: A Conversation with the Surgeon General
Let’s Talk Puberty: Supporting Our Kids Through the Cringe
Parenting Through Divorce: The Ultimate "No Option C"
Introducing Allergens: What We've Been Getting Precisely Wrong
High-Achieving Kids: The Culture of Never Enough
Parenting is an endless series of choices. Emily Oster has the data to help you navigate them.
Expecting Better with Amy Schumer and Dr. Sara Reardon
Random Acts of Data with Dr. Anupam Jena
Representation in Children’s Books with Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman
Ask Emily: All Your Questions About Running With Laura Green
How to Talk to Kids About Diets, Weight, and Food with Virginia Sole-Smith
One Mother's Story of CMV in Pregnancy with Megan Nix
Race, Values-based Care, and Advocating for Yourself With Erica Chidi
Parenting Through Challenges with Dr. Kelly Fradin
Ask Emily: Your Personal Questions on Parenting
Bonus: Book Talk with Hillary Frank (The Longest Shortest Time)
Telling the Truth About Marriage with Young Kids with Majka Burhardt
Ask Emily: Your Personal Questions on Career
Puberty, Postpartum, and Adaptation with Lauren Fleshman and Molly Huddle
Ask Emily: Your Personal Questions on Marriage
Parenting in America with Jessica Grose and Yael Schonbrun
How to Get Kids to Eat Their Lunches with Marnie Hanel
Bonus: Ask a Pediatric Urologist
Bonus: The Power of Data & Its Limits
How to Talk to Kids About Sex with Miranda Featherstone
(Re)Creating School for Every Child with Michael Horn
Understanding Gun Violence with Megan Ranney
Pelvic Health with Emily Oster and the Vagina Whisperer
Ozempic 101: A doctor explains the data and science behind weight-loss drugs
July 18, 202452min 23sec
News about weight-loss drugs is hard to miss. A new generation of drugs — Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, Zepbound — are on television, on billboards, and in many of our homes. There is little debate about the efficacy of the drugs for weight loss (they work, at least for most people) but lots of discussion about everything else surrounding them.
But what's been largely missing from this conversation is the answer to the practical questions that many people would like to ask their doctors. Are these drugs right for me? How do the side effects work? How fast would I lose weight? Do I really have to take them forever? What if I’m breastfeeding?
Today on ParentData, we invite back Dr. Gillian Goddard, the endocrinologist and brain behind our Hot Flash newsletter, to dive into the data behind these drugs. Dr. Goddard has been prescribing them for many years, and is both extremely knowledgeable about the science behind them, and extremely thoughtful about who is a good candidate, how to weigh the risks and benefits, and the kinds of questions you should be asking your doctor if you're interested in exploring them.
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