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.

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, and good middle of the night.

Fellow travelers, it's Dr. Stu. I am somewhere between there and here.

Currently, I'm in London, Ontario, Canada. And Bliss and I have been trouble connecting because of the time changes and things of my five weeks in Australia and my traveling.

And then I was in Montana.

And so we got behind on one episode of our podcast, and for that I apologize.

But we do have a treat for you we're going to

re-release a podcast that we did back in February of 2022 with our good friend and colleague

Christine Lauria about her birth stories from South Sudan Christine is a

extraordinary practitioner with extraordinary skills and extraordinary stories to tell.

And being that I'm on the travel circuit right now teaching breach and twin skills to

almost 200 midwives and birth workers throughout Australia and Montana and now in Canada, I thought it would

only be appropriate.

It would be a good choice. Bliss and Raquel, my assistant picked out this one as something

that we thought you might find interesting. There is a real shortage of these skills and the ability to handle issues and problems in obstetrics

without a scalpel. And Christine's going to give us some stories about some of the things that

happened with her back in South Sudan, where a scalpel is pretty much the last resort, not the first resort.

So I hope you enjoy this.

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