This is the Authentic Sex Podcast, real-life conversations about sex, pleasure and relationships.

I'm your host, Juliet Allen.

Welcome to episode 126 of the Authentic Sex Podcast. My name is Juliet Allen. I'm a sexologist and sex and relationship

coach and it's season five. It's finally here. So this is the first episode of season five of the

podcast and I'm really excited to bring you this series.

This series is mainly about conscious conception and pregnancy, birth and beyond,

and it is inspired by being pregnant right now.

So I am currently 32 weeks pregnant as I record this podcast episode

and have had a beautiful journey up till now. The conception journey has been, was quite challenging,

but here we are and I'm pregnant and I'm loving pregnancy.

And so, yeah, this series is really inspired by that.

And, you know, I wasn't going to share about my pregnancy and the conception journey until

Bub had arrived.

But I've gotten to this point where there's two things inspiring

me and that is one that I want to share in real time while I'm going through everything and

while I can still remember it all really fresh. And also I want to record this before Bob comes

because when baby arrives, my intention is to work a lot,

lot less and I know life will change a lot. And so, yeah, that's why I'm recording now just

before I'm about to go on maternity leave, which also is super exciting for me. So I hope you

love this season. Today in this episode, I'm joined by

my beloved man, Nick, Nick Perry. And we talked about preconception stuff in this episode. So this is called conscious conception,

Our Journey. And this first episode is all about what we did to prepare to conceive. So we spent

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