Welcome to the Birthful Podcast. I'm Adriana Lozada, and today we arrive at the last episode of our birth stories for the summer series.

As we've heard, birth happens.

You can do your best to prepare, but it's going to unfold in its own unique way.

So what if you're suddenly classified as high risk and told that you have to have a cesarean?

Monica Urseri is here to tell us what that was like.

Stay tuned.

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continue with our birth stories for the summer series and I have Monica Ursary here with me to tell us

about her birth story. Hi Monica. Hi. Thanks for being on the show. Thank you for having me.

Very good.

So I want to, I guess we need to backtrack a little bit with your story and start during pregnancy

because there were a few things that coincided to make it that were important in what happened at the end.

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