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, Blister. How are you? Well, hello. I woke up on the wrong side of the bed

today. Literally or figuratively? Figuratively. I'm being a total, like, woman today and not like the stereotypical, like,

I'm just moody. Don't know why. It's weird. Anyway, that's the truth.

No comment. I'm not touching that.

So I told you what's happened with me is that we're doing this sort of retroactively for today's podcast because I wasn't there.

I had a meandering drive from Oregon down to back to Canab, Utah, because of the winter weather in northern California and

southern Utah and then the Cierras. And it was magnificently beautiful, but also formidable.

There was a blizzard that closed the five freeway. I had to drive all the way back to the

Pacific Ocean and come around the pass that way through Eureka, California,

back to Redding.

That was like a five-hour detour.

Wow.

But the highway patrol guy told me that freeway would be closed for at least four hours.

And, you know, I don't know that it could have been two hours, but it could have been 24 hours.

And I wasn't going to just sit there in my car for four hours, hoping that they'd open the freeway.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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