Welcome to the Burling Instincts Podcast.

I'm Dr. Stewart Fish Fine, community-based practicing obstetrician and long-time advocate for birth choices.

And I'm Bliss Young, a licensed midwife.

Join us in our conversational style podcast where we talk about everything birth.

Sometimes we laugh, sometimes we cry, but we're happy that you're here. So here we go.

This is a Soul Fire production. Hello. Hi. Hi. I'm back in my home office for two and a half

days. I noticed that. I was a little surprised to see you back in your home office.

I thought you were out on the road.

I have been.

I will talk about that in just a second.

However, by the time this podcast plays, I will be back in my usual routine.

And that's a good preface because we are going to talk a little bit the second half of the

podcast about life work balance, right?

Yep.

How do we do it?

What happens when people get burned out?

Like how to avoid that, especially in midwifery?

It's a big concern, I think, not only for potential people

who want to seek out midwifery, but also those wanting to consider this as a career path.

Yeah, and why some people do it so much better than others.

True. Okay. So that'll be later.

So now let's catch up.

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