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.

Hello, everybody. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, and good middle of the night. This is

another edition of the Burthing Instincts podcast. If you're expecting to see Bliss today, that's not

going to happen because Bliss has unfortunately technical issues when she's out camping and we cannot get a

connection even though she purchased Skylink. I don't exactly know how it works, but we've tried

it this morning and she kept freezing and cutting out. So I'm going to talk today solo.

Hopefully I can keep you entertained.

The topic today is going to be something that we discussed yesterday at our Patreon Q&A group.

It was a question brought up by Caitlin about two things.

One, mainly antibody screening, but, well, that was the secondary one, but what about fear of transfusions

and what are the alternatives to transfusions when that situation may arise? So I'm going to

take a little deep dive into that. I've had a couple hours to work on that, and hopefully

you'll find this stuff

informative and useful down the road. So I wanted to thank her fellow traveler, Caitlin, for that.

I'm back in L.A. right now. I got a big family event tomorrow. And so I'm sitting in the closet

where I'm staying. And I just want to make a couple of announcements first, housekeeping.

So Raquel will have been released, I guess, already, the Breach Birth Podcast.

You'll be telling her home V-back after three C-section water breach birth story.

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