Welcome to the Birthful Podcast. I'm Adriana Lozada and today we're kicking off our birth

stories for the summer series. This is when I get to switch the spotlight from the birth prose to the mighty mamas who share

what real-life birth looks like.

Today, Victoria Wilson is here to tell us how bringing great labor support to a birth

makes for a much better experience than when you just bring your stubbornness.

Stay tuned.

This episode of Birthville is brought to you by natural breastfeeding and their free just bring your stubbornness. Stay tuned.

This episode of Birthful is brought to you by natural breastfeeding and their free quick start video.

Created by breastfeeding experts, Dr. Teresa Nesbitt and Nancy Morbocker,

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The Birthful Podcast, talking to maternity pros to inform your intuition.

Hello, mighty mamas and mamas to be. And if you are in the Northern Hemisphere, happy summer. During the summer,

we do things a little differently here at the podcast. If you've been listening for a while,

you know that I switched the spotlight from the professionals to the mighty Mamas so they can tell their birth stories in all their glory. What did they want? What did they get? How did it feel? What was hard? What

was really helpful? You'll get to hear it all as they experienced it. Hopefully this will help

balance out the dramatic and often scary views of birth so often presented by traditional media

and unhelpful strangers. So before we jump into today's show, I want to remind you that it would be super, super

helpful if you could rate the show on iTunes.

And to do that, go to birthful.com slash review, where I've created a lovely and explanatory

video that walks you through the process.

So go to birthfall.com slash review and watch the video or just go straight to the

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