In today's special New Year's Day episode, we are taking you behind the scenes to our most recent live Q&A on Patreon.

In this episode, we answer 18 questions from all kinds of topics, including postpartum periods, weight gain in pregnancy, lack of sex drive, 12 months postpartum,

how to choose home birth the first time, questions about the safety of free birth.

We talk about the signs of preeclampsia and the need to be induced or not, gestational

diabetes and shoulder dystotia, thyroid dysfunction, and so much more. So please enjoy today's preview

into our Patreon platform. We hope you will join us there in 2025. Also, forgive the sound

quality, as we typically don't use our mics over on that platform. So it might sound a little

different today. Nonetheless, happy New Year.

Thank you for being here and enjoy the show.

I'm Cynthia Overgard, owner of Hypnoberthing of Connecticut, Childbirth Advocate, and Postpartum

Support Specialist. And I'm Tresha Ludwig, certified nurse midwife and international board certified lactation consultant.

And this is the down-to-birth podcast.

Childbirth is something we're made to do, but how do we have our safest and most satisfying experience in today's medical culture?

Let's dispel the myths and get down to birth.

Hello. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the private off-the-record Q&A for October.

Yes.

So what did you get?

You said you got a cool story. Yeah.

So somebody by the name of Lauren wrote to us this morning and wanted to update us on a

duo experience who recently had in the hospital, which I thought was very cool.

She says, Hey, I had to update y'all.

I had to update y'all. I had to update y'all for being so... Half the country is thinking, what else would we call you? There's two of you. It's just fun as a Northern. They always think it's weird that we say, you guys, you guys. That sounds way worse. Anyway, I like it. All right. I had to update y'all being so influential in my journey. I became a certified doula this year and have been to eight births or so already, and it has been magical, of course. Anyway, yesterday I was called to my client's house at 4 p.m. and her baby was born at 5 p.m. at the hospital. Thank God we got there in time. Long story short, all would have been okay if you didn't, but, you know,

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