Hello everyone welcome to another episode of Tales from the Pit. I'm your intrepid

Pittsman, Mr. Michael Swaim. Thanks for listening. This episode continues the Tales from the Pitt series about my agonizing over

whether to have children soon because my partner Jen and I are considering it strongly,

ready to slide down that path but before we do I figured

I do a cycle of pit episodes starting with someone who doesn't want to have kids that was our last episode with Abe Epperson, fellow Big Bean.

And today I'll be talking with Tom and Marina Riemann about their experience with conception and pregnancy.

And I believe, shortly, we're talking scant days after this drops,

so will their baby.

So send them your thoughts and prayers.

Or even better if you can swing it,

head over to Marinas, support Marinas

high-risk pregnancy journey go-fund me,

the link for which will be in the show notes over at

Patreon.com slash smallbeans or you can search for support marina's high-risk

pregnancy journey on Go Fund Me or on Google you could type in go-fund me

support Marina's high-risk pregnancy journey. The point is on this episode we'll

be discussing Marina's high-risk pregnancy journey and that money would be really helpful if you're able to spare it if not

continue as normal before we get to the conversation I have a short story for you on the

topic and I wanted to say I guess just one thing about it before we dive in. It's called a haiku and it concerns a woman

named Jing who is Chinese and she ends up being interested in writing haiku because of its focus on

stripping everything down to its bare essence and single moments of insight that are very pointed and

gained through. Anyway, there's reasons, story reasons is my point and it

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