Book review: Parents are drowning in advice. An economist looks at the data — and says we can all relax.
By Jenny Rogers Deputy editor, Talent Network April 24 at 2:00 PM At my son’s 6-week-old checkup, I was given a wonderful gift by our pediatrician. She waved away my frantic questions about swaddling, nursing and formula and said all she cared about were vaccines and putting babies to sleep on their backs — since those were the issues with the most support from science. “Cribsheet” is essentially a book-length version of my pediatrician’s wisdom.
But it’s a small risk, and Oster — a professor at Brown and mother of two — frankly acknowledges that it might be one worth taking if it’s the only way parents and baby can sleep. Because sleep matters — a zombielike parent could easily drop an infant, fall asleep at the wheel or do any number of deadly things thanks to sleep deprivation.
The author Emily Oster Perhaps no parenting issue lacks context more than breast-feeding, and Oster offers a thorough and clear-eyed assessment of its benefits. She dispatches with many of the overstated claims about nursing’s powers while upholding the benefits . Overall? “[I]t’s not a tragedy for your baby, or for you” if you can’t nurse or decide not to, Oster writes. “It is almost certainly worse if you spend a year sitting around feeling bad about not nursing.
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