I remember the time is hanging out with friends or family and you just want more than anything to hang out with the other adults like a normal person, whether everyone's playing a game or just sitting around talking or you're finally like eating the meal together and that baby starts crying from the other room.

You just want to cry.

You just want to cry because you're the one

who is going to leave and miss out on all the fun and God knows how long you'll sit in that dark

room trying to get them back to sleep. Just feeling so sorry for myself that I had to walk out of

another enjoyable environment and go back to the baby you needed me. I paid the price for that

so many times when my children were young, four, five, six, seven,

you know, hanging out with other adults and the other kids all playing together and just being like,

tomorrow is going to be hell. Every single toy is going to be turned over, mixed up, lost,

the messes were just unbelievable.

But I just, we just let them destroy the house.

And then the next day, it was like, oh, my, I'll pay the price later. I'll pay the price.

But you just need that time.

I'm Cynthia Overgard, owner of Hypnoborthing of Connecticut,

childbirth advocate, and postpartum support specialist. And I'm Tresgard, owner of hypniburthing 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.

As we often do on this podcast, we take some of the conversations that we've been having over on social media because we have such a fascinating community of very intelligent women.

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