Welcome to the birthful podcast. I'm Adriana Lozada and we continue on our birth stories for the summer series.

This week, Kate Tursa tells us about her

epidural births and highlights how what happens during the third stage of labor can impact

breastfeeding and your recovery even for many weeks after the birth. Stay tuned.

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The Birthful podcast. Talking to maternity Pros to Inform Your Intuition.

Hello, Mighty Mamas and Mamas to Be. Thank you so much for all the love you give the show and for letting me know how much you are

enjoying these birth stories. Please, please keep sending me your thoughts and suggestions through

the contact form at birthful.com and leaving your reviews on iTunes. That really helps to get the

show in front of more Mighty Mamas. Today marks the halfway point in our birth stories for the summer

series. Can you believe it? I can't. The time is flying by, but I am also very excited about

what I have in store for you for September. While doing these birth stories, I have noticed

that a lot of different circumstances and questions have come up around the third stage of labor.

So I contacted Dr. Sarah Buckley, and we will be having her back on the show to talk about just that, about the third stage of labor.

Also coming up at September is a show about vaccines. Oh my goodness. This is something I've been

wanting to tackle for a while now and finally found the perfect person to interview to talk about

this. So great things in store in September. And so, you know, you have to keep listening.

And if you've been listening for the past few weeks,

then you know that I'm super, super, super close to releasing my birth partner's ultimate labor

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