You have to look at this from both angles. Now, if you did nothing, you got this HPV result,

you did nothing. Within two years, the general population, 90% of the general population is going to

see that signal change to negative without doing anything else. So that has to really come into

conversation when we're talking about HPV and cervical cancer and all of this.

I feel like there's so much fear around this.

But actually, in reality, the junk that's in this vaccine actually poses a greater risk of harming you or your child than cervical cancer itself.

I'm Cynthia Overgard, owner of hypniburthing 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.

Who am I?

I was just in South Africa, interestingly, and I was with these, a group birth workers in the United States, and we were sitting with indigenous midwives, really kind of in ceremony and community with them.

And when they ask, who are you?

Us Westerners like to give our name, our title, our credentials, our whatever, favorite color, where we grew up.

And when they ask that, they're really trying to ask, like, who are you?

How do you show up in the world?

So I'm a very conscious father. I'm a person who cares deeply about my work also did a fellowship year and end of life care and palliative care

which is really complicated illness and complicated decision making i brought that into my birth work

and now i do home birth i do a functional women's health care i do quite a bit of other stuff

in a in, in a toolkit

that is far broader than just pharmaceuticals in surgery nowadays. So I think today we're going to

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