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Hello and welcome back to Baby Steps.

I'm Jordana Abraham.

And I am Dr. Naomi Bernstein. And today we are joined by

Maria del Rousseau, Betch's very own senior director branded content. Thank you so much for joining us today.

Thanks for having me. Thank you so much for sharing your story. I know you have a substack where you

share a lot, but I'm excited to like get, again, I keep saying

excited. It's always the wrong word. I'm, you know, looking forward to, like, you know, getting

into like the real details here on the show because I think your story will resonate with a lot of people.

Yeah. I'm looking forward to having the conversation and being here.

Why don't we start? Just tell us, like, when you first thought about having kids, like,

just like take us to the beginning of like your whole thought around parenthood. I kind of always

knew I wanted to have kids. It was actually funny. I ended a relationship

before I met my husband because we had, you know, differing views on whether or not we would

start a family that was kind of like the final nail in the coffin. It was something that was really

important to me. But I was very career focused early on in my 20s. I'm 35 now. And so I ended that

relationship around 31. And I met my husband around the time I was turning 32. And we knew right

away that we wanted to have kids that, you know, we wanted to get together. We moved in together

after like five months. It was something that was kind of always on the table. But I was always very anxious about like it happening too soon. I don't know why looking

back on that now with everything that's going on. It always goes that way. I think that I spent like

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