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

Today's story comes from Candace Hodges, who for weeks had to navigate

scare tactics, conflicting advice from care providers, and modified bed rest, not to mention the logistics

of a long induction in order to embrace the chaos and have a birth that resembled what she wanted.

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Birthful. I really look forward to reading all about it. All right, my guest today is Candice Hodges,

who is here to shed light on the induction process by sharing her story. Welcome, Candice. I am so happy to

have you here. Thank you for having me. I'm excited to talk to you. Yeah. So tell us a little bit

about yourself. Actually, I have to tell the listeners that you wrote in volunteering to tell

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