Emily Oster is my motherhood messiah. I consider myself to be a pretty relaxed mom, but I certainly didn’t start out that way. Emily’s data-based parenting approach is to thank for that.

Anytime I’m starting to bug out about whether sleep training is going to mess up my baby for life, or if my kid is going to go to college only eating chicken fingers, or whether letting my kids watch an extra hour of TV is going to turn them into ding dongs — there’s Emily, giving me the data-backed reasons why I should chill the F out and just enjoy the ride.

Emily is the author of three data-based books on pregnancy and parenting as well as the newsletter ParentData, and in the very first episode of So Into That, she teaches us how to pull off soft pants at work, and how to relax as parents.

We also get into:

* Why Emily thinks moms are so anxious about everything these days

* Is sleep training messing up our kids?

* Is baby-led weaning a cure to picky eating?

* Whether the kids enrolled in every single extra-curricular are going to be the most successful

* What Emily’s “so out on” right now

* Our IRL LOLs of the week

* What she cooks when she doesn’t feel like cooking

Links:

* Emily’s newsletter

* Emily’s books

* Emily's Instagram

* The Athleta pants Emily’s so into

* The ones Caro’s so into

* The really nice thing that the cup company that Caro now feels bad about picking on did

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