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.

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, good middle of the night to everybody.

Bliss and I together and it's just Bliss and I today. So that's very exciting. How are you doing?

I'm good. My client from Fiji just arrived yesterday. So we had a nice long visit today.

She's hoping to have a be back. And I'm going to tell you something. And then I want you to tell me how I might be feeling about it.

So her sister, her mom, and her friend are all going to be

there. I don't even said the most part, but, and her husband did not get, his visa didn't get

approved. So he's not going to be able to make it. And her mom, her sister cried

talking about how nervous she is about it. And her mom is talking about, are you going to be monitoring

her? When do you come? La, la, la. So how am I feeling about this woman's birth right now?

You're a little on the edge because, um, You're a little on the edge because you'd like to tell this family to go out for pizza and not come back.

But, uh, right.

Right.

You know, I'm just still thinking about the poor husband who, you know, you just can't walk into Mexico and walk

across the border like you could a couple months ago, but you should have just flowed to Mexico.

But now it's a little harder to get in. That's tragic. I don't understand why somebody from

Fiji can't get a visa, but that's another story. I want to go there.

I'm sure you're not happy about this. I'm sure you'd love to talk to this woman privately.

This was your, this was your meeting today, and they were all there. Yeah, they were all there.

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