In this is special bonus episode of the Evidence Based Birth Podcast, this is Rebecca Decker.

I'm going to talk with you a little bit about what it has been like to write a book about childbirth.

So a few bonus episodes ago I told everybody that I was writing a book

that is a memoir. It's not your typical guide to childbirth.

And one of the things I wanted to do as you all wait for this book to come out

is I wanted to just each week kind of give you a little insider peek on what the process was like. And today I want to talk about the emotional

journey of writing a book and if you haven't heard already you might hear a

little background noise, some dogs barking, some kids kids playing that's because I'm

gonna walk because when I talk about this kind of stuff or when I think about this

stuff a lot of the times I process it by going outside and just walking.

Writing the book, Babies Are Not Pizzas, has been a lot of fun.

It's been a lot of work.

But mostly, it's been a lot of emotional work.

When I made the pivot in the fall of 2018 and decided that I needed to go public with the story

of everything that happened to me during a 10 year period of right

before I started evidence-based birth and the years after I started evidence-based

birth. I knew it was going to be hard but I didn't know how hard it was going to be.

Some parts of the book were easy to write.

They just flew out of me.

Some parts were really joyful to write about.

But then I got into a middle section of the book that ended up

being really really hard. And that's because I had to write about one of the

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