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 afternoon, good evening, and good middle of the night to all my fellow

travelers.

This is me, Dr. Stu.

I'm solo today because bliss is halfway around the world, literally, in Bali, hopping from island to

island, and I'm about to leave in a few hours to go to Haiti to teach Breach with Mama Baby Haiti.

And so we're kind of at opposite ends of the timing spectrum and coordinating with that.

And sometimes crappy Wi-Fi has left me little option, but to record an episode by myself, I'm going to miss.

Bliss is obviously humor and insight, but I have so much in my mind addict that needs clearing

out.

So I thought I'd start with what just happened to me this morning,

the day I'm about to leave to catch a flight from St. George, Utah, through Salt Lake City to Fort

Lauderdale, Florida, and on to Cap Haitian, Haiti. My sponsor, Rebecca, texted me this

morning telling me, oh, yeah, by the way, you need to have a COVID test to get into Haiti.

Well, I'm in a small town, and fortunately, I actually did find a pharmacy that ran the test.

And to everybody's relief, I'm negative, which of course I knew ahead of time.

But that's not what I want to talk about.

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