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. Good morning. Good morning. I'm in Santa Barbara.

I drove up this morning. I had a very, very exciting last couple of days.

And I'll fill you in on that as we go.

But it's really good to be live in person.

You made me some tea.

Thank you very much.

I'm working on about four and a half hour sleep.

Yay.

Sounds like the old days when he used to drive back and forth,

Santa Barbara, San Diego.

Yeah.

Yeah. So you want to know why I only have four hours sleep? Santa Barbara, San Diego. Yeah, yeah.

So you want to know why I only have four hours sleep?

Because you had a birth?

I did.

And you know what else kind of?

What's my favorite kind of birth?

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