Welcome to the Burling Instincts Podcast.

I'm Dr. Stewart Fishbein, 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.

Good morning, everybody.

Good afternoon, good evening, and good middle of the night.

People who are so challenged.

I'm sort of laughing today because it's me talking to me.

My lovely blister is doing birth

stuff today, surprisingly, shocking that a birth worker would have birth stuff to do. So I thought

I'd just record by myself because one of those podcasts where I have a lot of things to cover

and data to cover. And I wanted to get off my chest. I didn't want it way too long because then the stuff gets old and then we move on to

other things.

So I hope that you'll enjoy the podcast without bliss.

You'll be back next week.

So here we go.

I am in Gallup, New Mexico on my way home from lovely two weeks in Texas.

First, I spent some time with the lovely Carmen and visited

with her family in Lubbock, Texas, saw her beautiful new birth center. And that was great. I got

a drawing from one of her children of me and my cat, which was nice. And I wanted to thank

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