Welcome to the Burling Instincts Podcast. I'm Dr. Stuart Fishbein, community-based practicing

obstetrician and longtime 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.

So many of you know that, obviously, there were some events in Atlanta that occurred a few weeks ago.

And what's odd about all that is that two, just two days prior to that on August 7th, Bliss and I recorded a podcast on shoulder distortion.

In the fashion that we usually do where we

have our banter and then we take a deep dive into shoulder dystosia.

Who would have known that two days later it would be the number one story probably in the

world of this terrible horrible tragedy that occurred in south of Atlanta.

So we wanted to preface because if you see shoulder distosia as our topic on the podcast,

everyone's going to think we're going to be talking about this case and we weren't.

This was just our usual deep dive into it, but we have some really strong feelings about it.

Bliss you, I know you do.

Yeah, I just wanted to offer our deepest condolences to Jessica Ross and Trouon Isaiah Taylor,

Sr. and their beautiful baby, Trouvon, Isaiah Taylor, Jr. This is unimaginable. And I just want to make sure that those of you who are

providers feel skilled in shoulder dystopia. You know we're talking about maneuvers and stuff,

but hands-on skills are very important. So making sure that you learn because the things that we're talking about today in the

podcast are life-saving measures. We don't know everything that happened. We're waiting to hear more,

but we, Stu and I agree that what happened should never have happened. We will get back to you

guys when we have more information to break it down a little bit further.

But we just couldn't release this podcast without first letting you know that it was recorded prior to all of this.

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