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Today my guest is Diana Spalding.

Diana is a certified nurse midwife, pediatric nurse, and mother of three young children.

She has a master's degree from NYU in Midwifery and has worked as a nursing school

professor at Cedar Crest College as well as a Midwifery school advisor at Georgetown University.

She's the digital education editor at Motherly and the founder and

and instructor of Gathered Birth, a motherhood wellness center in Pennsylvania.

With sounds true, Diana Spalding is the author of the new book, The Motherly Guide to Becoming Mama,

Redefining the pregnancy, birth, and postpart of the journey.

Sometimes in my own experience, I'm not aware of how a group of people have been

pressed-passed upon, dishonored, not held up revered and supported until somebody pulls off the cover and points it out

really super clearly when it comes to mothers in our world today, Diana Spalding has a

gift for doing just that and showing us a path to what it would mean to honor, nurture, and revere mothers in a new way,

the way they actually really need it.

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