What's up, friends. It's Jamie Grace and welcome to the Jamie Grace podcast. Today is a bittersweet situation.

I want to bring you guys some news that is bitter because it means that I don't get to talk to you for a little while,

but super sweet because the reason is fantastic and lovely and presumably adorable. And that would be my

kid that is supposed to show up in the next week

and a half, if that. We're officially on Baby Watch. We are packed for the hospital. We've got the

car seat by the door and ready to go. And we're really, really, really excited that the baby is

coming soon. Now, I've had no issue with like taking maternity leave. I played my last concert a couple of months ago and I don't travel again until the fall, which is when I'm going to pick back up again, play more music, of course, start working on new music as well to release and share with you guys. But taking that maternity leave really wasn't that big of a deal. My full-time job is to sing and play guitar. And I was like, okay, I'm going to take like four or five months off from singing and playing guitar. But what I didn't really calculate is that I wasn't going to be able to do my podcast and my YouTube videos in the same capacity that I was hoping. I definitely have tried as hard as I can. But as you guys can probably even tell, I'm like getting

out of breath, just trying to talk to you guys now. It's like I can talk in like small intervals,

like Instagram stories, but trying to do a podcast, trying to do YouTube videos. It's been

increasingly challenging. I'm so grateful for the incredible

support of my husband, the rest of my family, and also to have an amazing doctor that I've just

been so supportive and so helpful with helping me find the right rhythm when it comes to my health

and then adding on my team, helping me find the right rhythm when it comes to my health and then adding on my team helping me find the right

rhythm when it comes to doing things that I love and my job as far as like, you know, social

media and podcast and YouTube. And also making sure that, you know, the baby's coming first and

that my health is coming first as well. So it's been an interesting journey, a very like,

you know, well, yeah, just an interesting journey.

Like, it's something that I think all moms go through at some point, but especially first-time moms

and especially, like, self-employed first-time moms that are like, oh, if I don't schedule things,

I don't have to do them. And so I've just been in like a really cool,

great, awesome, exciting season of giving myself that grace and giving myself that mercy.

I mean, I've been a YouTube kid for what, 14 years now. I'm used to making YouTube videos

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