Feature interview

Afternoons

Emily Oster is an economist not an obstetrician. But she knows how to use data to answer tough questions. After evaluating the research, she found many women are given misguided or bad advice about normal pregnancies. So she wrote a book about it. Then she heard from thousands of women who had difficult pregnancies and felt like they had nowhere to turn to understand miscarriage, premature births or postnatal depression. So Oster has again poured through the data and explains what the science says about difficult pregnancies and how patients can get better care from their doctors. Her new book is called The Unexpected: Navigating Pregnancy During and After Complications.