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, sometimes we cry. But we're happy that you're here. So here we go.

We're praying.

We're praying about this podcast because we are so committed to you guys and making sure that we bring you content every week.

And Stu is just drove from his house in Kinnab, Utah to L.A. to fly out on an airplane

tomorrow to go to Australia.

To go to Australia.

And my travels are not nearly as interesting, but I'm driving through California and Oregon, and I'm with my mom helping her sort through her garage of 35 years because she's moving in with my sister in about eight weeks and she's done nothing yet so it's been a exhausting and emotional but beautiful and you know all of those mixture

of things when we um are facing our mortality and the end of things and the beginning of things.

It's like beautiful and hard.

And so we're both.

No, it's really true that that happens.

I remember when my dad passed away, I flew back to Minnesota and my sister and I, we started to go through some things.

And she'd already done most of it because she'd been involved with his care toward the end.

And I was kind of stuck in California. But we went through all the photos and all that stuff.

And, you know, do you want it? No. Do I want it? No. What are we going to do with it? No. We're going to keep it? No. Because then our kids are just going to have to throw it out at some point. So, you know, sometimes we had to throw stuff out. And, you know, this is your parents' lives. And I've made a decision at that point that unless I die suddenly, I can't count on,

when I get older, I'm going to get rid of most of my stuff.

Yeah.

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