Hi everybody. This is me, Dr. Stewart Fishbein, community-based obstetrician,

and believer in informed consent and choices.

And I'm not here today with my usual sidekick Bliss who's off today.

In case any of you are watching for the first time,

usually Bliss will be sitting next to me in her kitchen

since we've been kicked out of the studio since the lockdown started.

But I'm home in my home office today with a beautiful picture

of a skier done by my daughter when she was about five years old

in the background. If anybody's curious about that.

So I have a lot to talk to you about today, but I just want to first say that you can reach me at Ask Dr. Stu at g.l.com or you can reach Bliss at Burthing Bliss.

I think Burlingwis Medwifery.com is her website, and that's where you would go.

And she'll be back with us next time.

How's everybody?

I hope you're good.

I had, I've been off a lot, and I really needed it, and it's very therapeutic, and I'd strongly

recommend it to everybody if they can do it to take some time off, and I've gotten back

to nature.

I just got back from almost four weeks, except for a brief sojourn back

to L.A. to catch a couple of babies, which we'll be talking about later in the podcast today.

I've been off traveling. I started in Arizona. I went off to New Mexico and southern Utah,

and then back to Colorado, and then back to Utah.

Then I came back to L.A., and then I went to Yosemite for the first time in my life.

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