Welcome to the birthful podcast. I'm Adriana Lozada and today we're going to be talking about getting the help you need for after the baby is born.

You know the saying about how it takes a village?

It's because life with a newborn is much harder than you think.

How much support will you need and how can you go about getting it?

To find out, I'll be talking with Christy Satrasny.

Stay tuned.

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

Hello, Mamas and Mamas to Be. So I have to start out again by thanking, thinking, thinking, thanking, thanking,

thanking all of you so much for listening, for downloading and all the love that you're giving

to the podcast. It's been amazing. And as usual, I'll ask you to please, if you're liking it,

which it seems that you are, do go and subscribe an iTunes,

even if that's not how you usually listen to it. That'll be the best way for it to go up the

rankings and get more people to listen to the podcast. So you will be sharing with lots of other

mamas. So if you do that and maybe leave a review, you will have my eternal gratitude.

All right.

So in today's show, I'm super excited to be talking to fellow doula and fabulous maternity advocate, Christy Sadrasny.

Before being a doula, Christy spent years specializing in prenatal and postnatal massage, but then her client started asking her to attend their births, and that radically changed the direction of her life's path.

Within a week of her doula training, she attended her first birth and has been supported in women and family ever since she got hooked.

Christy is an advocate for a woman's right to have a healthy, positive birth experience in the

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