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Somewhere along the way, I think we've started confusing being informed about birth with being prepared for birth. And those are two very different things. So today we're talking about the difference between birth information and birth preparation, and why it's so easy to get stuck consuming instead of doing, and what you can actually do this week to start preparing for your birth.
Because girl, that baby is coming, whether you've finished researching or not. Welcome to the birth prep podcast. I'm Taylor, your birth bestie, who's here to support you as you plan and prepare for the unmedicated birth of your dreams.
If you're ready to ditch the fear, conquer the hospital hustle, support that bump and bond, and walk into the delivery room like the HGIC you were born to be, then buckle up, babe. This is where it all goes down. Hello, hello, and welcome back to the birth prep podcast.
If you're new here, I'm Taylor, I'm a mom of six, I'm a birth prep coach, and I'm someone who's just really passionate about helping women prepare for birth with Jesus at the center. And specifically helping women who want an unmedicated birth in the hospital, figure out how to actually prepare for that. Not just hope for one, not just make a birth plan that says they want one, but actually truly prepare because once upon a time, your girl wanted an unmedicated birth in the hospital.
And I did everything that they told me to do. I went to the hospital birth class. I asked all my questions.
I went to all my appointments. My husband did too. We read all the pregnancy apps.
I Googled my butt off for literally nine months straight. I never stopped researching. And I walked into that hospital room completely and utterly unprepared.
And I paid for it. I paid for it heavily. And I don't want that for you.
So this is why I do it. This is why I have been called to do this. The Lord literally gave me this assignment.
So I am here to help you do this work. I want you guys prepared walking in because while we cannot control every single little thing that happens during our childbirth, there is a whole lot that we can do before labor ever starts to help ourselves feel more equipped to navigate it. Okay.
And that's what we're going to be getting into today. Um, so the first thing that we're going to talk about is the birth information rabbit hole. I want you to think about the last time you sat down to research something about birth.
Maybe you opened up because you wanted to learn about labor positions. You found a real about using a peanut ball during labor is super helpful. We love that.
Then you clicked on another reel about the fetal ejection reflex, and then you found a video about cervical checks and somebody in the comments mentioned something about Pitocin. So obviously you had to go research that. And then you ended up watching a 45 minute YouTube video about hospital interventions.
And before you knew it, two hours had passed. You learned a whole lot of things, but what did you actually do to prepare for your birth? Probably not much. And listen, I'm not judging you.
Okay. We have access to information about childbirth than probably any generation of women before us. It literally everything's at our fingertips.
It's it's incredible. And it's also insane. Like you can learn about physiological birth, understand the hormones involved in labor, watch actual births, learn about different comfort measures here from women who have had all kinds of different experiences.
And that's truly a gift, but having access to all that information also creates a problem because there's always literally girl, always more to learn. Always another video, always another perspective, always another potential complication to research, always another birth story that just makes you wonder if there's something you haven't thought about yet. And if you're not careful, you can spend your entire pregnancy gathering information without ever actually moving into preparation mode.
And I think part of the problem is that consuming information feels really productive. Like it feels like you're doing something. And to a certain extent you are, you're learning that learning is supposed to lead somewhere.
Think about it like this. Like imagine you wanted to run a marathon and you spent six months watching videos about running. Great.
Fantastic. You learned about proper breathing techniques, running shoes, hydration, pacing, recovery. You learn about what your body's doing that day.
You learn, you listen to the podcasts from marathon runners. You followed running coaches on Instagram. You could probably explain the science of endurance training better than half the people actually running marathons, but you never went for a run.
Not once. Would you feel prepared to run 26 miles? Absolutely not because knowing how to run and training your body to run are two completely different things. And preparation is very similar.
My, I had a coach, a business coach years ago, and she would always say, you can, you can like sit all day and read about how to swim, but until you get in the pool, you're never going to learn how. And I think that this is where a lot of women get stuck. It's not because they're lazy.
It's not because they don't care. It's because nobody has really explained the difference between learning about birth and preparing to give birth. And I am here to do that, but I want to take this a little step further because like, yeah, we know the problem is that we're not preparing great.
That's good information to have, but why do we keep looking for more information? Because I don't think that information overload is always just about having too much content available. I think, I think what I've been seeing a lot lately is that it's about control. And I say that as somebody who has had to learn quite a bit about surrender over the course of six births.
Okay. Birth is unpredictable. You can have preferences.
You can make plans. You can educate yourself and surround yourself with supportive people. And you absolutely should, right? I teach you guys to do that.
But at the end of the day, you cannot know exactly how your birth is going to unfold. You don't know how long your labor will last. You don't know exactly what your contractions are going to feel like.
You don't know what position your baby will be in when labor starts. You don't know whether you'll go into labor at 38 weeks or 41 weeks. There are so many things we simply cannot know ahead of time.
And that can feel incredibly uncomfortable, especially from someone who likes to have a plan, right? So what do we do? We research because research gives us the feeling that we're doing something to eliminate uncertainty. We tell ourselves, well, if I can just learn enough, I'll be ready for anything. But here's the problem with that.
There's no amount of information that will allow you to predict or control every little detail of your birth. And if your confidence is entirely dependent on knowing exactly what is going to happen, you're going to have a really hard time feeling confident because there's always going to be something that you don't know. Girl, let me tell you something.
I know a lot about birth. I have been doing this. I've been educating for years.
I've been learning for even longer, and I do not know it all. I cannot know it all. And honestly, I really don't have any interest in knowing it all.
There's always going to be another something. And am I constantly learning? Am I constantly improving so that I can better serve you? Absolutely. But I do not think that me sitting here and teaching you every single little thing that I could possibly ever get my hands on about birth is serving you.
Okay, I think that's going to keep you stuck. I think that's going to keep you in information overload instead of in preparation mode. And I'm sorry, but information alone does not move the needle closer to the birth that you want.
I've been there. It doesn't work. It's great.
Information is great, and it serves a purpose, and it's absolutely required, but it alone will not get you there. I believe that women should be informed about their options. And I think that you should understand common hospital procedures and know what questions to ask and be familiar with the benefits and the risks and the alternatives of the interventions that are probably going to be offered to you.
I think you should know about your rights as a patient. Absolutely. I think you should understand how physiological labor works.
All of that matters, but there's a difference between learning information because it will help you make informed decisions and constantly searching for more information because you're afraid of what might happen if you don't know everything. And I really want you to consider which one you're doing. Are you researching because there's something specific you need to understand? Or are you researching because you don't feel ready and you're hoping that the next video will finally make you feel ready? Because those are two very different motivations, and this is where I want to bring Jesus into the conversation.
I think sometimes we approach birth preparation as though the goal is to become so educated, so prepared, and so capable that we don't need to depend on God. Now, I don't think most of us would ever say that out loud, but I do think it's possible to approach preparation that way without even realizing it. I've done that.
We want to eliminate every risk. We want to anticipate every possibility. We want to have an answer for every single question and somehow guarantee that everything will unfold the way that we want it to, but that's not really how life works.
And it's certainly not how birth works. A man's heart plans his ways, but the Lord directs his steps. That's in Proverbs somewhere.
I love that verse because it doesn't tell us not to make plans, right? It acknowledges that we do make plans. Planning is not the problem. The problem comes when we begin to trust our plans more than we trust the Lord.
And I think there's a beautiful balance available to us here. We can be diligent in our preparation. We can educate ourselves.
We can practice skills. We can make thoughtful decisions about our care, and we can do all of that while recognizing that our confidence does not have to come from our ability to control the outcome. Honestly, what a blessing.
We can prepare faithfully and trust God with the things that we cannot control. Those two things are not in opposition of each other. And I really, really want you to hear that because sometimes Christian women can fall into one of two extremes.
Either we try to control absolutely everything through information and planning, or we say, well, God's got it. And we use that as a reason to not prepare at all. And I don't think either extreme is particularly helpful.
You can trust God and still take a childbirth education course. You can pray over your birth and still practice coping techniques. Surrendering the outcome doesn't mean that you're surrendering your responsibility to prepare.
It just means that the result of the situation, which you cannot control, we've already talked about that, is not resting on your shoulders. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord, that the outcome is in your hands and that I'm not responsible for creating it.
Yes, I'm going to steward things well. Yes, I'm going to prepare intentionally. Yes, I'm going to follow your lead and your guidance.
And I get to lay the rest at your feet. I get to prepare well, I get to do my part, and I get to trust God with all the rest. And I think that that is honestly something that we all need to hear.
I can apply that to so many areas of my life. And of course, I'm not pregnant right this second. I have a little seven month old on my lap right now.
She's passed out and just the cutest little thing I've ever seen. But I have been there and this absolutely applies to birth, but this can apply to literally so many areas of life. I have had the absolute honor and privilege of walking with so many women in preparation for their birth experiences.
And some of those women who have truly prepared their butts off, truly prepared themselves for that experience, still walk away disappointed. They walk away with an and they did everything they could to get the birth that they wanted and still didn't get the outcome that they had prepared and prayed and hoped and planned for. And if you are doing the preparation out of a place of control, and you're trying to control a specific outcome, that is going to feel so heavy if and when that outcome doesn't come.
Because then I've seen women make it all about, Oh, I must have missed something. I should have worked harder. My body failed me.
I messed up somewhere. And that's heavy stuff. You guys were never created to carry that.
That's not yours. That should be at the feet of Jesus. And I really want you guys to be onto yourselves and really just start getting curious of the position that you're preparing yourself from.
Because if you are able to surrender the outcome to the Lord, yes, do your part, prepare well, and surrender the outcome to the Lord. You're not gonna Yes, you're going to feel disappointed. You're going to have to grieve that experience that you didn't get and that you were praying and preparing and hoping for.
But you are going to have such a lighter experience because you're not going to make it your fault. It's not your fault. You can't control birth.
If I could teach you how to control your birth, I'd be a very rich woman. And I would be so over the moon to help you guys get the perfect, amazing birth exactly how you want it, no matter how you want it. I don't care whatever you want.
It's yours. If I could figure out how to get you that exact result, I would, I would do it. I would tell you all the things I'm telling you right now.
It's not possible. It is not possible. I had my sixth baby seven months ago and my on my bathroom floor with just my husband, all my other children were sleeping upstairs.
I was honestly a little terrified and I had worked through those fears. I had surrendered it to the Lord and I trusted that he was going to follow through on his promises to me. But there was, there was, you know, this fear that it wasn't going to go according to plan.
And I just had to keep reminding myself, even if something comes up, I trust the Lord that he's going to give me the birth that I need. He's going to give me the birth that my baby needs. And whatever that looks like, even if that looked like me going away in an ambulance without my husband, because he had to stay behind with my children, whatever that was one of my fears, whatever that looked like, I had to trust that the Lord was still good and that I still did my part.
And thank you, Jesus, that it all worked out the way that I planned and prepared for. But I had to, when I tell you multiple times a day, I had to remind myself, whatever happens, the Lord is good. Whatever happens, I did my part.
Whatever happens, I trust in him. I had to keep reminding myself of that. And that was really difficult for me.
And then I had, I was planning an insane birth. Most people wouldn't plan. I wasn't even planning on having that kind of birth.
And a lot of people had a lot of things to say about it. And every time someone said something, it came back up, all the fears. I'm like, oh my gosh, I've already worked through all this.
Please stop bringing these things up. And I know it's from a place of love and a place of concern. And I get that.
But I had to just go bring it back to the Lord. Lord, I'm scared again. I need you to take this from me.
This isn't mine to carry. This is not my portion. And it is a very difficult process.
I'm not going to sit here and act like, oh, just add this to your to-do list and check it off. It's like, no, this is a hard, this is really hard work. This is work that most women aren't doing.
And I just want you guys to understand that. Yes, this sounds all cute and fantastic on a podcast, but in reality, it is really difficult work to do. And if it feels hard, that's not you being wrong or you being less faithful or less trusting or whatever.
It's hard. Okay. It's hard.
Okay. I'm way off my notes now. I went on a whole rabbit trail, but I want to talk about what birth preparation actually looks like, because we talked about the problem.
We talked about what's underneath the problem, but we need to talk about what we're actually going to do about it because I don't want you to finish this episode and think, wow, that was really good. And then go right back to scrolling on Instagram. That'll be a little ironic, wouldn't it? So let's get practical.
I want you to start thinking about birth preparation in terms of what you're going to know, what you're going to practice and what you're going to plan. And those are three very different things. All three matter.
Okay. Okay. First is what you need to know.
The first piece is education. And yes, you do actually need some information. Despite the title of this episode, I'm not suggesting that you go into childbirth knowing absolutely nothing.
Please don't do that. Okay. Especially if you're planning a medicated hospital birth, that is foolish because you're preparing to experience a physiological process inside of a medical environment.
Okay. That is not the typical experience that that system gets. And there can be some really important differences between how your body naturally works during labor and how labor is commonly managed in a hospital.
So I want you to understand things like the stages of labor, what happens in your body during contractions, the role of hormones like oxytocin and adrenaline and endorphins, how movement and positioning can affect labor, what common hospital interventions are and when they might be recommended and what your options are when decisions need to be made. But here's the key. You need to learn with a purpose, not just collect random information and hope it all comes together when you need it.
If you're learning about labor positions, the goal isn't simply to memorize a list of positions. The goal is to understand when and why different positions might be useful. So you can actually try them during your labor experience.
If you're learning about hospital interventions, the goal isn't to memorize every possible complication and scare yourself half to death. The goal is to understand your options well enough to participate in the decisions about your care. If you're learning about stages of labor, the goal isn't to pass a little quiz about cervical dilation.
Nobody cares about that. The goal is to recognize some of the things that you might experience and have ideas for how to respond when it comes time to that. The information should serve your preparation, not replace it.
If it's not serving your preparation, stop collecting it. There is no reason you need 172 birth facts living room free in your head. If you're not going to do anything with them, but what you need to practice, this is the part that I think gets overlooked the most because you cannot learn every single birth skill by watching somebody else do it.
At some point, you actually have to practice. Like I said earlier, at some point, you got to stop reading the book about how to swim and get in the pool. Let's talk about coping with contractions.
Maybe you've learned about breathing techniques. You've watched a few videos. You know that slow breathing can be helpful.
Fantastic. Have you practiced? Have you actually taken five minutes to sit down and relax your shoulders and unclench your jaw and focus on breathing slowly? Have you practiced while you're uncomfortable? Because it's one thing to breathe slowly when you're sitting on the couch, perfectly comfortable, but it's a totally another thing to remember to relax your body when you're experiencing something intense, when you're stressed out. And is there a practice round for labor where we can practice all these things and be totally prepared and ready for when it comes? No, of course not.
But the goal is to become familiar with a skill before you need it. The same thing goes for labor positions. If you've seen a position that looks helpful, try it out.
Get on your hands and knees. Lean over that birth ball. Try a supported standing or leaning position.
See what feels comfortable. See what doesn't. Maybe there's a position that really looks amazing on Instagram, but when you try it, you're like, absolutely not.
Good to know, right? Wouldn't you rather figure that out now than in the middle of a contraction? Let's talk about your birth partner too, because this is a big one. If you're expecting your husband or your birth partner to support you during your labor, you actually need to prepare together. And I don't just mean sending him 17 Instagram reels and hoping he watches them.
Although I know some of y'all are doing exactly that. Sit down together. Talk about what you might need.
Practice counterpressure. Practice different ways that he can support your body. Talk about what he can do if you become overwhelmed.
Talk about how he can help you communicate with your care team and understand that what you might want during labor may change. You might think you want somebody rubbing your back during labor and then labor starts and you decide that no one is allowed to touch you. And if they do, they might end up thrown through the window.
I don't know, but it's okay if you practice something and then change your mind later. The goal isn't to create a script that your partner has to follow perfectly. The goal is to give both of you the tools and a shared understanding so that you guys can respond to what you actually need that day.
And that is preparation. Not just knowing that birth partners can be helpful, but actually equipping your birth partner to help. You guys created this baby together and he can say that he wants to support you and he'll do whatever you need and that he loves you so much and all of that, but that doesn't actually prepare him to navigate that day.
Okay. You guys need to be having conversations. He needs to understand your plan.
He needs to understand how to actually help you and equip you that day. And that's the difference. Now let's talk about the planning side of things, because this is where you take what you've learned and you start making decisions about how you want to approach your birth.
And I don't mean trying to schedule every little detail of birth. I mean, making thoughtful plans for the things that you do actually have some influence over. Once you figure out what your preferences are, you need to talk to your provider about those preferences, not just write them down on a piece of paper, say, here's my birth plan.
Actually talk about them. If you want freedom of movement during labor, have you asked what that looks like at your hospital? If you're hoping to avoid routine interventions, have you discussed that with your provider? Have you made an individualized plan? These conversations matter so much. I would much rather you learn at 34 weeks that you and your provider have very different expectations about birth than to discover that in the middle of your labor experience.
I also want you to think about what happens if your birth doesn't unfold the way that you originally hoped because preparation should not just include your ideal scenario. It's about being equipped to navigate different scenarios. If you want an unmedicated birth, fantastic.
I love that for you. Let's prepare for that. But let's also talk about what you might do if labor is longer or more intense than you expected, or you're getting too tired.
And now you feel like you need an intervention. Let's talk about how you want to approach decisions. If an intervention becomes medically recommended, let's talk about how you can ask questions and understand your options and make informed decisions.
Even when things have to change, because being prepared doesn't mean that nothing unexpected will happen. It means you've developed some tools to help you respond when it does. Okay.
Now, before I give you your little homework for this week, because I do want you to do something about this episode. I want to address something because I know that there are women who are listening to this. You already feel overwhelmed.
Maybe you're 36 weeks pregnant. Maybe you've barely started preparing. Maybe you've been so busy working and taking care of your other children or just trying to survive pregnancy.
The birth preparation has been sitting on your to-do list for literal months. And now you're listening to me talk about all these things that you should be doing. And you're thinking, well, great.
Now I have 17 more things to worry about. No, that's not what we're doing here. I don't want you to turn birth preparation into another impossible standard that you're trying to meet.
You do not have to do every exercise. You do not have to learn every breathing technique. You don't have to memorize every medical term.
You don't have to create a 40 page birth plan. Please don't do that. One page, one sided, very clear, very plain highlight the important stuff.
Okay. I want you to be intentional though. That is different.
I think sometimes we make preparation so complicated that we end up doing nothing. We tell ourselves we need three uninterrupted hours to work on birth preparation. And because we don't have three uninterrupted hours, we don't do anything.
But what if you took 15 minutes today? What if you practice breathing for five minutes before bed? What if you and your husband spent 20 minutes this week talking about your birth preferences? What if you wrote down three questions to ask at your next prenatal appointment? What if you just spent 10 minutes praying about the fears that you've been carrying? Those things count. Those small intentional steps all add up over the course of your pregnancy. And another thing I want to remind you about is that preparation is not a guarantee.
You can do literally everything I just talked about and still have a birth that looks very different from what you imagined. That's not you failing. Okay.
It doesn't mean that you didn't prepare enough. It certainly doesn't mean that you didn't trust God enough. It's birth is not a test of your faith.
Okay. I'm so tired of seeing that. It's not a test of your faith.
And an unmedicated birth is not some kind of spiritual achievement. I believe unmedicated birth can be a wonderful option for women who desire it. Like honestly, like it's how the Lord designed it, right? Physiological birth is amazing.
It's beautiful. I'm so in love with it. I love the Lord's design and, and that doesn't make it the, that doesn't make it more Christian or more holy or more sanctified or blah, blah, blah, blah, whatever it is.
It's just, it is what it is. It's an option. I believe it's worth preparing for, but the goal here is not to prove something.
It's to approach birth informed, equipped, supported, and grounded in the Lord. And that is valuable regardless of how your baby is ultimately born. Okay.
So here's, here's where the loving kick in the pants comes in. Okay. Cause I'm not just going to let you listen to this entire episode and walk away without doing something.
I want you to take three small steps this week, not 17, three. Okay. First, we're going to audit your birth information.
Open your safe folder on Instagram. I know you have one. Okay.
If you're anything like most pregnant women on Instagram, there's probably a whole lot going on in there. I want you to spend 10 to 15 minutes going through what you've saved. Okay.
You don't have to go through all of it. Please don't do that. You probably can't, but just like look at each post and ask yourself, is this something I actually need to know? Is this something I need to practice? Is this something I need to discuss with my provider or my birth partner? If it is great, put it somewhere useful, make a note, add it to your calendar, send it to your husband with an actual plan to discuss it, do something with it.
And if it's not relevant to your preparation, let it go. Delete it on save. You do not need to keep every single little piece of birth content that you've ever encountered.
I promise your Instagram safe folder is not a birth preparation plan. Okay. Number two, practice one skill, pick one thing that you've learned about that you haven't actually tried yet.
Just one, maybe it's breathing, relaxation, a labor position, counter pressure with your birth partner. That one I would definitely put on the list, but whatever it is to take 10 minutes and practice. And I want you to actually put it on your calendar.
Like literally open your Google calendar, your Apple calendar, wherever you put your tasks, because I'll do it sometime this week is a fantastic way to make sure you forget about it entirely. Ask me how I know. Choose a day, choose a time and actually do it.
Put time on the calendar before that time gets filled up with something else because you know it will. And then number three, I want you to invite Jesus into your preparation. And I don't just mean asking God to give you the exact birth experience that you want.
Dear Lord, please give me the unmedicated birth that I'm dreaming of and preparing for. Please make it happen. No, I mean actually inviting him into the process, spend some time in prayer, ask him to show you where you might be relying on information to give you a sense of control.
Ask him to reveal any fears that you have been avoiding or trying to research your way out of. Ask him for wisdom as you make decisions about your care and ask him to help you prepare diligently while holding your plans with open hands. Like you can literally ask the Lord to help you surrender.
He's so good because I don't want you to approach birth believing that your peace is dependent on everything going according to plan. I want you to know that you can have peace in the Lord. Even when things are uncertain, your peace does not come from another Instagram reel.
I promise you're not going to find it there. It comes from the Lord, the literal Prince of Peace. And I think you need to start doing this long before labor begins.
Okay. Now, if you've been listening to this episode and you're thinking, oh my gosh, Taylor, I get it. I need to stop collecting information and I need to start actually preparing, but I really don't even know how to start.
Okay. I got you. That's exactly why I created the birth prep reset because I know how overwhelming birth preparation can feel when you're staring at a million different resources, a million different opinions, and a million different things that people are telling you that you just absolutely have to do before your baby arrives.
Meanwhile, someone else is telling you don't ever do that. Okay. So I want to help you cut through all of that.
And the birth prep reset is about getting intentional with your preparation, figuring out what actually matters and taking real steps toward feeling more equipped for birth. It's basically this podcast episode, but like on steroids, the Lord asked me to make this and I was not asked just so you could add another resource to your collection. This, honestly, I have never seen anything like this.
I don't think there's anything else like this out there to even get your hands on. I am so excited for the change that this is going to bring. It's seven days.
It drips out every single day. So you're not binging something all in one day. It's short, it's actionable, and it can quite literally change the way that you're preparing for birth in literally a week.
You could shift everything and it's all done with Jesus at the center of it all. And I'm just going to put the link in the show notes for you. I think every single person should be in it.
That sounds cocky. It's not me. I didn't make this.
The Holy Spirit made it. He used me. I was a willing vessel and he graciously used me.
And I want you to do it. I don't want you to grab it and save it for later. I want you to actually do it.
Block off the time, sit down with it. Takes 30 minutes a day. There's a 10, 15 minute video and like 10 to 15 minutes of like work and that's it.
One week you can completely change everything. Okay. I'm going to shut up.
I hope this episode gave you some encouragement, maybe a little push in the right direction, hopefully. Um, and if you take nothing else away from today, I want you to remember that you do not need to know everything about birth to begin preparing for your birth. Okay.
You need to take what you're learning and actually do something with it. Practice the skills, have the conversations, make the plans, ask the questions, invite Jesus into the process, and then trust him with all the things that you can't control. You don't need to spend the rest of your pregnancy trying to become an expert on every possible little birth scenario.
You're preparing to have your baby. So let's actually prepare. And if this episode called you out a little bit, come tell me on Instagram.
Seriously, send me a DM. Tell me what your first step is going to be. I would love to hear from you.
Um, I'll put the, I'll put my handle in the show notes for you, but I'm the birth prep coach over on Instagram. And I, I truly love to hear from you guys. I got an email this week from a podcast listener and oh my gosh, I blessed my socks off.
So sweet. She sent me this huge long email and it just really touched me. I love, I love hearing from you guys.
Truly. It's sometimes when I'm on the podcast, it can kind of feel like I'm like screaming into the void because there's no comment section. There's no likes, there's no usernames that I can see.
Like, so it's like, it's so nice to hear from you guys and be like, oh my gosh, I listened to the podcast. I'm like, cool. Um, it it's truly awesome that my work gets to touch so many lives and I am truly privileged and honored to do this work.
Um, and if you know another pregnant mama who has approximately 700 birth reels saved on Instagram and hasn't practiced a single labor position yet, send her this episode. She needs it lovingly, of course.
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