Hi everyone on today's podcast we're going to listen to an interview with Dan and

Ryan two brothers-in-law about their experiences watching their partners give birth and

why somebody today might even want to become a parent.

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Hi everyone, we are coming up to Father's Day and here at Evidence-based Birth I wanted to say Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there who might be listening.

Today I wanted to do something special and I wanted to share with you an interview that I recorded

when I was teaching a college class about childbirth and I had my husband Dan, Mr. E.B.

And our brother-in-law, Ryan, come to the class to share their experiences

becoming fathers.

In the college class, we had talked about the importance of not only listening to the stories of people who give birth,

but also to their partners, because birth can be a life-altering experience for the partner

as well as the birthing person. In this particular

class period we were focusing on the experience of fathers. In this episode you'll

hear both Dan and Ryan share the experience of watching each of their three children be born and the and then they're going to answer a really fascinating question, which is

what's good about being a parent? There's been a lot of interesting research coming out showing that a lot of younger people today are

reluctant to even consider parenthood because it's too disruptive to their lives.

So I asked Ryan and Dan, you know, are you glad you became

parents? What's good about becoming a father? And I think their answers will

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