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On this week's episode, we have our weekly check-ins.

We have our special segment called OMG, I'm Freaking Out, and we dive into our BFPs and BFNs for the week.

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Why don't we get started with our weekly check-ins?

Laura, where are you at this week?

I am at week 23.

And, yeah, things are chugging along. So I reported last week about my very disappointing doula meeting. And I'm happy to report that I had a

much better doula meeting with someone who was much cooler and a lot less dismissive of my doctor,

which is really nice. That's a step in the right direction. Yeah, to not be bad-mouthing my doctor at our first meeting. She really knocked it out of the park. Home run. But it was, it was a, she was very nice. She came to our house and we had a good talk. My problem is that I'm still just on the fence about hiring one. I'm like asking everyone I know who's had a baby. And it's so interesting, people are

either like, it's the best money you've ever spent or people are like, you don't need one.

That's what Corey's for. And the nurses. And the nurse. That's the real thing for me is the nurses.

But what's interesting, I was at a friend's birthday party this weekend and with two people who had just recently had babies.

And I asked, oh, did you have doulas?

And they both had it.

And they're like, you don't need one. Here's what you need to do. And they gave me all this advice. But then it turns out both of them ended up having C-sections. So it was like, well, isn't one of the main reasons you get a dula to try to lower that percentage, lower that chance?

Or at least that's my idea, is that one of the compelling reasons to get one is that there are studies that show that it lowers the rates of C-section.

Now, I'm starting to question those studies, though, because I'm wondering if the people who get doulas are less likely to have C-sections in general.

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