Expecting Better Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom, Give Birth Like a Feminist 2 Books Collection Set

This two-book collection brings together Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong and What You Really Need to Know and Give Birth Like a Feminist, offering two perspectives on pregnancy and childbirth. Across both titles, the focus is on how advice is shared with women and how choices are discussed during pregnancy, labour and birth.

In Expecting Better, award-winning Emily Oster questions widely repeated guidance and the way it is often delivered without clear explanation. In Give Birth Like a Feminist, Milli Hill presents birth as a feminist issue, placing women’s experiences and rights within broader conversations about power, control and agency.

Included titles

• Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong and What You Really Need to Know
• Give Birth Like a Feminist

Key details

• Two-book collection set
• Expecting Better is written by Emily Oster
• Give Birth Like a Feminist is written by Milli Hill
• Give Birth Like a Feminist is described as featured on BBC Radio 5 Live

Synopses

Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong and What You Really Need to Know

Emily Oster looks at pregnancy myths and the long lists of things women are advised to avoid, often without the reasoning being made clear. She suggests that guidance can be wrong or overly simplified, and revisits common recommendations on subjects including alcohol, caffeine, sushi, bed rest and induction.

She also sets wider guidelines in context, covering fetal testing, weight gain, pregnancy over the age of 35 and nausea.

Give Birth Like a Feminist

Milli Hill argues for birth as a feminist issue and challenges the view that only a healthy baby matters. She applies a feminist lens to the labour ward, asking readers to consider power, control and agency in childbirth.

The book explores birth plans and human rights in childbirth, and includes birth stories from women around the world.