Welcome to the Birthful Podcast. I'm Adriana Lozada, and today we continue with our birth stories for the summer series.

Today's story comes from Jennifer Gillette, who was caught by surprise by the birth of her son at 34 weeks.

She'll be here telling us all about life with a preemie.

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So this week, we continue to switch the spotlight from the professionals to the mamas who are

gracious enough to join us and share their birth stories in order to tell what real life birth looks like.

And today, I have my friend Jennifer Gillette to tell us her birth stories. Hi, Jen. Hi. How are you?

Good to have you. Thank you. Good to be here. Yay. So you have two birth stories. We were just chatting before a little bit. And I can't believe that your children are going to be four and two. Or Marshall did turn four already? Yeah, he turned four in May.

And so that's the story you're going to focus on.

Tell us about his birth.

Well, let's see.

It was about 34 weeks.

And I was sitting on the couch watching TV.

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