Hi everyone and welcome to this mini podcast bonus episode about the book

Babies are not pizzas. In this mini episode I want to talk about the

overarching theme as well as some of the major

content areas that are covered in Babies Are Not Pizzas. So as I've talked

about before babies are notizzas is really a memoir. It's a story of about a 10 year

period of my life. And I weave the data or the evidence around my story so that hopefully people will be able to learn

while they're reading the story.

What people have been telling me who've been reading advanced copies of the book is that

they feel like it's a page turner like they keep turning the

page like what happens next what happens next and I'm excited about that because it

means it's going to keep people engaged so that they can learn while they're also

reading an entertaining story.

I actually didn't truly realize the overarching theme of the book

until I got to the final chapter and I was trying to figure out how can I tie the final chapter

to the first initial chapter and what's the overarching theme of what was my journey all about.

And I finally realized that it was about birth trauma.

And I think one of the things that made me realize that is because as I sent

copies, advanced copies of the book to random people that I knew, including the

person who did our development adding, the person who did our copy editing, and other people who got advanced

copies of the near final drafts, they would say even if they had nothing to do with the birth

world. They were not birth professionals. They would say, oh my, I am so glad you were coming out with this book because I had a traumatic birth.

Dada, and then they would tell me their story.

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