Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong--and What You Really Need to Know: Audiobook
Book 1 of the ParentData series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong--and What You Really Need to Know audiobook runs 10 hours unabridged, narrated by Emily Oster and Jonathan Todd Ross (about 6.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 20 days |
| 1 hour / day | 10 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
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What our data says
- At 10 hours, it runs longer than 87% of the 2,498 Parenting audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on The ParentData Series
This is book 1. Books 1 to 4 run 34.2 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong--and What You Really Need to Know | 10 hrs |
| 2 | Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool | 10.4 hrs |
| 3 | The Family Firm: A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School Years | 7.9 hrs |
| 4 | The Unexpected: Navigating Pregnancy During and After Complications | 5.9 hrs |
More narrated by Emily Oster
Emily Oster narrates 5 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 40 hours in all.
- The Family Firm: A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School Years
- Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool
- Arrival Stories: Women Share Their Experiences of Becoming Mothers
- The Unexpected: Navigating Pregnancy During and After Complications
About as long, on the Parenting shelf
277 Parenting audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7
- The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
- Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
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- Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong--and What You Really Need to Know is book 1 of Emily Oster's ParentData series: a 10-hour unabridged recording, read by Emily Oster and Jonathan Todd Ross, released March 9, 2021, on the Parenting and Health & Wellness shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 10 hrs
- Narrated by
- Emily Oster, Jonathan Todd Ross
- Released
- March 9, 2021
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Parenting, Health & Wellness
- Series
- The ParentData Series #1
- ISBN
- 9780593416914
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How long is the Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong--and What You Really Need to Know audiobook?
Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong--and What You Really Need to Know runs 10 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.6 hours.
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Who narrates Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong--and What You Really Need to Know?
Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong--and What You Really Need to Know is narrated by Emily Oster and Jonathan Todd Ross.
Is Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong--and What You Really Need to Know worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 6.6 hours, saving 3.3 hours.