Welcome to the Burling Instincts Podcast.

I'm Dr. Stewart 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. I'm good. So are you ready? Are you ready this morning? Your hair is still wet,

so I just wondered to sure if you were ready. You know, I don't feel ready for life this morning,

but thank God I have you as a partner partner and we were just chatting before we started

that we spent a lot of time yesterday with all of the all of the um podcast stuff. There's so many

things happening and we love it and we. We're catching up.

Yeah, and I say often that I love Wednesday mornings because, you know, our podcast comes out Wednesday mornings, but also we're recording one that comes out in a couple

weeks as we speak.

So Wednesdays are a busy day.

Actually, Tuesdays are a busy day because I tend to prep for the podcast at that point.

But anyway, I want to tell everybody listening, welcome, good morning, good afternoon, good

evening, and good middle of the night. And the first thing I'm going to tell everybody and the last

thing I'm going to tell everybody today before we go to our Patreon group is to please check

your spam box if you write to me because I can't tell you how many people

I write to me and I write them back like that day because I'm pretty OCD about that stuff

and I don't hear from them and then they'll message me on Instagram saying, I paid you this money

and you never responded and it's like, yeah, check your spam box. It's in there. It's like,

check your spam box. Okay. All right. It's like, check your spam box. Okay.

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