Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive

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at Zibby Owens. Carson Meyer is the author of Growing Together, Dula Wisdom and Holistic

Practices for Pregnancy Birth and Early Motherhood, a week-by-week companion. Carson is a doula who has helped hundreds of

parents through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum offering resources, education, and support for a home

or hospital birth. Growing together is her first book. Welcome, Carson. Thank you so much for coming

on Totally Booked with Sivvy to talk about growing together, doula wisdom and holistic practices for

pregnancy, birth, and early motherhood a week-by-week companion. Congrats.

Thank you, Zibi. Thanks for having me. Of course. It was so nice doing the event together at the

core club. I loved listening to you a conversation with other fabulous moms for our

Mother's Day thing.

And I was like, you have to come on a podcast.

So here we are.

It was so fun.

Oh.

Okay.

Your title is pretty self-explanatory.

But why don't you talk about the genesis of the book, how it came to be, and then we'll

talk about your own story own story too which is pretty

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