Hi, Cynthia and Tricia. I was calling in to ask if you could talk about cervical massage in labor.

I previously had a least wondering if there's a way to tell if you are how far dilated you are.

I'm just curious if you could do that at home.

What I don't like is that a woman knows when she conceives a lot of the time. And then they just disregard her completely when she tells them. She's like, this doesn't make sense. I know when I conceived her. They're like, nonetheless, this is our formula. If you know your conception date and it does not align with your LMP date, then you should speak out. One of the top new red flags in my life is,

if a doctor says the word death or die, they're fired. Do you want your baby to die?

Unforgivable. When I was living out West, I went to the testicle festival in Rock Creek.

Just stop right there. Are you kidding? It's a, it actually doesn't exist anymore.

Finish your testicle. This is your second one for the episode. It should not be this way.

I'm Cynthia Overgard, owner of hypnoborthing of Connecticut, childbirth advocate, and postpartum support

specialist. And I'm Tresha Ludwig, certified nurse midwife and international board-certified

lactation consultant. And this is the Down to Birth podcast. Childbirth is something we're

made to do. But how do we have our safest and most satisfying experience in today's medical culture?

Let's dispel the myths and get down to birth.

Happy New Year.

Oh, you cannot do that.

Why?

It's still the new year at the end of January. It's like that

Seinfeld episode when Elaine is complaining she's still got a happy new year. And no,

Seinfeld is complaining he got one in February and she goes, I got one. I once got one in March.

Well, you know what? If it was our first episode of the year in March, I'd say

Happy New Year. I guess you would. But this is not our first. Well, it's our first Q&A.

Yeah. But I haven't, I haven't looked at these yet. This usually goes just fine when I

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