Goodbye, for now

An announcement from Emily about the podcast.

An Expert Roundtable on Trying to Conceive

For many people, when we start thinking about a family, we assume it'll just happen nine months from the moment we start trying. But that isn't the way it happens for all of us. And fertility can often be a journey that's more winding and more complicated and more confusing than we expected it to b…

How to Baby-Proof Your Relationship: Navigating a new marital landscape

When you look at the data, it is true that after people have kids, marital satisfaction declines. Having a baby drastically changes everything in your partnership that was familiar, that was predictable, that you got used to. And some of those are the reasons you got into the relationship in the fi…

All About Vaccines: Why they’re important, and how to make them more tolerable for your child

Shots are never a fun experience. Even if you are enthusiastic about vaccines, holding your kids as they get them is not usually a high point of parenting. And right now, the conversation about vaccines is increasingly fraught - and not just because our kids are sometimes afraid of needles. Becaus…

Understanding Risk, Living With Uncertainty

In the last month, we've aired podcast conversations with Dr. Nathan Foxand Dr. Bapu Jena,and though the content is different, there’s an underlying thread that connects them both: what it means to deal with risk, and uncertainty. And not lose your mind. Economists deal with this constantly, and s…

It’s Never Too Late for Pelvic Floor Therapy: Why it’s about more than Kegels

For many of us, our first exposure to our pelvic floors is through the Kegel exercises we learned about in Cosmo, promising us great sex. The reality of our pelvic floors comes roaring back in pregnancy, when they are are more taxed than they've ever been. The pelvic floor turns out to have a hand …

Tamron Hall's Late-Night Panic Google

Award-winning talk show host Tamron Hall dives into dressing your kids properly for the weather and overall preparedness as a parent (and why it's so elusive), and extolls the virtues of the preschool jacket flip (IYKYK). Subscribe to (the new and improved!) ParentData.org for free access to new a…

How to Talk to Your Doctor: Navigating important conversations about your care

Today on ParentData, we're welcoming back Dr. Nathan Fox, Emily's co-author for The Unexpected- a book about when things go wrong, or at least get complicated, in a pregnancy. Nate is an OB-GYN and a maternal-fetal medicine specialist, and he is one of our favorite returning podcast guests, not jus…

ParentData Presents: Raising Parents - "Should You Have Kids?"

Today on ParentData, we're airing an episode from Raising Parents, Emily's limited series podcast in partnership with The Free Press. The episode is the last in the series, but the first question we all need to grapple with before engaging with all the others: should you have kids? For most of hum…

Understanding Panic Headlines: How studies that influence your parenting choices get published

Here at ParentData, we talk a lot about panic headlines. You know, the headlines that cycle through your feed about coffee and wine and sleep and lead and the causes of autism, many of which contradict the last panic headline, and almost all of them turning out to be not nearly as bad as they seem.…