Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool (The ParentData Book 2)

by Emily Oster

If you want to swaddle, you cannot use a regular blanket. The nurses in the hospital can, but not you.

If you want to collect data and make pretty graphs, go for it. But remember that this is the illusion of control, not actual control.

In the first days and weeks after your baby arrives, you will experience a wave of hormones. Most women find they are emotionally sensitive during this period. This is not, for example, the time to watch the first fifteen minutes of the movie Up.