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.

Welcome, Bliss, to another episode of the Burthing Instincts podcast.

Welcome, Stu, and all of our fantastic, what do we call them, fellow travelers?

Our fellow travelers. where are you today?

Everybody likes to know where you're at.

They do?

Today, I, yeah, I'm in San Ynez, which is halfway between Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo.

There's a lovely midwife here. Her name is Alexis. And we've been

trying to get together so that I could, you know, I'm just trying to meet all of the local midwives.

And so she invited me to come and stay on her property. And we went out to dinner and she's lovely. She's got a great home office here

serving the community. She's part Native American. And I just feel like she's the perfect midwife

to be serving this community. So I considered moving here and then I found out there was already

a midwife here and getting to spend time with her.

I'm like, oh, she is, these are her roots. She's the perfect midwife to be serving this community.

So it was really nice to spend some time with her. Yeah, it's a gorgeous place. If people ever saw the movie

sideways, the wine country we're sideways took place.

And it's,

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