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.

Recording in progress.

Hello everybody.

Bliss and I are back.

This is in Ohio, California, with a lovely coffee.

And I'm here with my grape juice.

Hmm.

So, yeah, I lucked out.

I'm in an absolutely epically beautiful place for the next three weeks.

I feel like I've been just given a gift, feeling really good, feeling really good.

Well, that's exciting.

And so you're in Southern California, sort of.

I mean, I consider Ohio to be Southern Cal.

You probably don't, but I do. Yeah. So I hopefully get to see you this week. Maybe I'll come up and... Yay!

...with you a little bit. I have somebody who has been ruptured membranes for a couple of days, and we're waiting on her. She had some contraction last night,

and then the sun came up and did its usual change in mental status,

and contractions sort of went away.

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