Welcome to the birthful podcast.

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

Today's stories come from Alexandra Maseki, who's the mother of a two-year-old and a five-month-old.

Both stories start with her water breaking and have happy endings, but they unfold very differently.

Stay tuned.

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The Birthful podcast. Talking to maternity pros to inform your intuition.

Hello, Mamas and Mamas TV.

I want to thank you once again for all the love you're giving the show.

And here's a quick reminder that it would be super, super helpful if you could rate the show on iTunes.

To do that, go to birthful.com slash review, click on the view and iTunes link and then click on ratings and reviews and give us as many stars as you think we deserve.

So all it takes is one link and three clicks, starting from birthful.com slash review,

and I will be forever grateful.

So as you know, for the summer, we're doing things a little bit different.

I'm switching the spotlight from the professionals to the mamas so they can tell us about

their birth stories, the fabulous and the

not so fabulous, and just lay it all out there as it really is. Today, I have Alexandra

Maseki to tell us her birth story. Well, she's got two birth stories, so she'll weave in and

out from them. Alexandra, thank you so much for being here and for sharing your stories with us.

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