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, good new year to you.

Happy New Year. Good afternoon to you. Good evening to you. And good middle of the night.

You have a good middle of the night. Quick story. Can I say it real quick?

Yeah.

Okay.

So this is from our friend Sally Ann Beresford in England.

I labeled it as short sweet message is my title here.

It's a, hi, Dr. Stu.

Hope you and Bliss are both well.

I have just released my second book, The Art of Giving Birth,

Five Key Physiologic Principles.

But I haven't sent you a copy yet as I know you were on your travels.

I just wanted to let you know that I was recently on my way home from a birth and was listening

to your latest podcast episode.

When you said, good middle of the night, I burst into tears.

Despite hearing this many times, I hadn't appreciated how much it would mean to me in that moment.

The fact that you were validating that I was up all night, feeling exhausted and overjoyed

at the beautiful birth I had just witnessed met so much in that moment.

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