Emily Oster built her career on one idea: parents deserve real data, not received wisdom. This conversation is about applying that same rigor to the advice new mothers are handed by default — and what changes when you actually look at what the evidence says.
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In This Episode
Emily and Simona go through the parenting advice that gets repeated without evidence behind it — sleep training, screen time, feeding schedules — and talk about what it actually takes to make decisions from data instead of guilt. They get into why so much parenting culture is built on fear rather than fact, and how to hold uncertainty without spiraling.
Themes In This Conversation
Why so much parenting advice isn’t backed by evidence
Making decisions from data instead of guilt
Fear-based parenting culture versus fact-based parenting
Holding uncertainty without spiraling
About Emily Oster
Emily Oster joined Do Not Disturb to challenge the parenting advice mothers are handed by default — and what changes when you actually look at the evidence.
About Do Not Disturb
Do Not Disturb: The Inside Story is a filmed long-form podcast hosted by Simona Deifta about modern female life beneath public success — motherhood, ambition, identity, relationships, money and reinvention. New filmed episodes every Wednesday. The Inside Story lands every Monday.
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