Welcome to the Burling Instincts Podcast.

I'm Dr. Stewart Fishbein, community-based practicing obstetrician and long-time 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, wherever you are, everybody.

It's me. Dr. Stu went back with Bliss somewhere in the wilderness.

No, I'm in a parking lot. I wish I was in the wilderness. But I am in Washington and it's not far away.

Well, I'm glad I found you because we both have the same problem with searching our emails and having it.

I have so many windows open that I don't know why my computer just doesn't explode.

I know. I know. Technology sometimes is so helpful. And other times it is like maddening. It's just

we're accessible so many ways and we get so many emails a day that it's just like it's hard

to find shit. Yeah, but it also means that you're having an effect on people.

Unless, of course, it's spam, right?

Both.

Yeah, yeah.

Problem is you have to read all the titles of everything to make sure you're not deleting something that's valuable in your spam.

And then, of course, you get a lot of crap in your regular mailbox.

So it's kind of like your regular post office mailbox. I mean, how often you get a letter in your post. And then, of course, you get a lot of crap in your regular mailbox. So it's kind of like your regular post office mailbox.

I mean, how often you get a letter in your post office mailbox that actually is something

that's valuable?

Too bad, right?

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