I’m a science factchecker and even I was overwhelmed researching pregnancy and baby advice | Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz

No wonder new parents are at sea over the conflicting information on everything from what to eat to the best' way to give birth

My wife and I are expecting our first child later this year. We're going through the gamut of emotions common to all new parents - a heady mix of excitement, terror, and above all a huge and ongoing dose of extreme confusion. In the decades that I've been alive on this earth, I've never before been confronted with so many choices for every decision, nor a more diverse array of advice on what to choose.

As something of a scientific factchecker, this plethora of parenting options has been a really fascinating adventure for me into how complicated the evidence often is for the advice that new parents get.

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