Welcome to the My Essential Birth podcast. I'm Courtney and I'm Stephanie and we're professional

doulas, childbirth educators and the creators of My Essential Birth, the holistic, empowering,

online childbirth education course helping mothers everywhere confidently achieve their best

birth. So join us each week as we share tips and advice for all things pregnancy birth and beyond.

Be sure to subscribe to the podcast so that you can be the first to get new content.

And head over to www.mysentialbirth.com for more information about our birth course and to join a

community of mamas just like you.

Before we get started, we would like to invite you to leave a review for this podcast in iTunes.

It's a brand new show and it's really important in the launch of a new podcast to gather reviews.

Will you please help us spread the word by leaving a review so that more

mamas have a chance of finding this podcast when they search for one? We read every single review

and we promise to keep doing that. We love what everyone, all of you ladies, have been saying

about the Pregnancy and Birth Made Easy podcast here with My Essential Birth. So thank you everyone

for your continued support.

Our reviewer of the week is Ladybug LH and she says such an encouraging podcast. I'm pregnant

with my second child and after having a hard first birth, this podcast has given me the hope

of having the birth I really want this time. So thankful to have such an

educational and encouraging podcast and birth course for a nervous mama like me. Ladybug LH, you are not

alone. I would say that the majority of our students that come to the birth course itself,

this isn't their first pregnancy. It ain't their first rodeo.

Yeah.

But they've had some kind of initial experience that didn't go so great, and they are feeling

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