When do you know you're in labor? When is active labor? What exactly is labor? You'll get all these

questions answered and more in the sneak peek episode of the birth preparation course on the stages of

labor. Welcome to the All About Pregnancy and Birth podcast. If you're having a baby in the

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Hello there. Welcome to another episode of the podcast. This is episode number 242, whether this is

your first time tuning in or you've been here before. I'm so grateful you're spending some time with me today.

In this episode, I am giving you a sneak peek inside my online childbirth education class,

the birth preparation course. I'm sharing with you the lesson from the course on the stages

of labor. So in this lesson, you are going to learn

what labor is. It's not exactly what everyone thinks. You're going to learn the stages of labor,

and you're going to learn how you will know whether or not you're actually in labor. Now, I will say

that this lesson is great in audio,

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