Cripsheet
by Emily Oster
Mentioned once across 1 show · first heard Apr 2026 on On Purpose with Jay Shetty.
The general take
Emily Oster was motivated to write Cripsheet, which covers breastfeeding and other parenting topics, after receiving numerous emails from readers following her earlier pregnancy book Expecting Better. She describes a long gap between the two books before deciding to pursue this project.
About
The New York Times bestseller From the author of Expecting Better, The Family Firm , and The Unexpected an economist's guide to the early years of parenting. “Both refreshing and useful. With so many parenting theories driving us all a bit batty, this is the type of book that we need to help calm things down.” — LA Times “The book is jampacked with information, but it’s also a delightful read because Oster is such a good writer.” — NPR With Expecting Better , award-winning economist Emily Oster spotted a need in the pregnancy market for advice that gave women the information they needed to make the best decision for their own pregnancies. By digging into the data, Oster found that much of the conventional pregnancy wisdom was wrong. In Cribsheet , she now tackles an even greater challenge: decision-making in the early years of parenting.
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…discussing emily oster's second book on parenting and breastfeeding evidence
“I had written Expecting Better, which is a book about pregnancy. And then I was not sure if I was going to write a second book. It's like a long time between the two books. I had to have a second kid and all kinds of other stuff. But I think the thing that ultimately pushed me over into writing Cripsheet, which talks all about breastfeeding, among many other things, is the emails that I kept getting from dads.”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty — Parenting Expert Emily Oster: The #1 Parenting Mistake That Causes Unnecessary Stress (Use THIS Data-Backed Framework to Debunk the Biggest Parenting Myths!)at 33:00
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