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Birthing Instincts

#277 The Light & Dark of Birth Work

Birthing Instincts

Dr. Stuart Fischbein + Midwife Blyss Young

Parenting, Kids & Family, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.5631 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

In today's podcast, Blyss & Dr. Stu share wisdom through stories of loss and wonder. Blyss vulnerably and openly shares about the death of her daughter and the ways her unimaginable loss has deepened her ability to hold space for others. This episode is filled with the joy, beauty, trauma, and pain that comes with birth work, and ultimately, life.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Burling Instincts Podcast.

0:05.0

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

0:10.0

And I'm Bliss Young, a licensed midwife.

0:13.0

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

0:17.0

Sometimes we laugh, sometimes we cry, but we're happy that you're here, so here we go. This is a Soul Fire production. Good morning from Kansas City.

0:27.7

Good morning. You're outside. I am outside today. I figured it would. I'd done it before,

0:34.7

and I would give it a try today. Still a big heat wave going on there?

0:39.1

It's a little better.

0:40.6

The other day I was at a birth.

0:42.9

I left in the morning.

0:44.4

We left around 10.

0:45.8

I got in my car and it was 100 degrees.

0:49.7

And I was like, oh, this is not good.

0:52.8

So that was the worst day and it's been better.

0:55.4

It's more like 80s now.

0:57.6

But yeah, it's been hot for Santa Barbara especially.

1:02.2

Yeah.

1:02.5

For me, it's fun to get out of California, even for a few days.

1:08.8

You know, I was supposed to be on the road in The Beast, but the Beast still isn't ready.

1:12.4

So hopefully by the time this podcast airs, I'll actually be in The Beast and I'll be somewhere in

1:18.2

Wyoming or Montana.

1:19.5

But so I flew to Kansas City.

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