Hello and welcome to the MS-Mama Podcast. I'm your host Abby Halberstadt, happy wife,

Mom and a 10 Bible Believing Christian.

And we just finished an entire epic series

on my 10 birth stories broken down into,

I don't even remember how many episodes

because we combined some, and there were some twin wirths in there.

But I wanted to move on to something that is related in some ways but the flip side of the

coin and it is something that I get asked about every single week when I do

what do you want to know Wednesday which is the Q&A that I do on my social media each

week and it's something that I know that so many women feel deeply about and have experienced and

yet they feel a lot of isolation and they feel very lonely in their pain and

that is the topic of miscarriage. And so I know from

you're telling me that quite a few of you are making it through the last legs of

your pregnancy on my birth stories because it's giving you excitement and anticipation. of your which is a condition where a pregnant woman experiences continuous and

extreme nausea throughout significant portions of her pregnancy. It is

really really hard. I haven't experienced it myself but I have friends who have and it is just

so debilitating and so discouraging while at the same time knowing that you are going through this valley you're going through this

hardship for the sake of your precious baby and so I see so much strength

and courage and women who go through that and yet they've written me and told me they've received encouragement and

comfort from listening to my birth stories. So I know this is a tender topic that

we're addressing today and I will address it from a place of tenderness. I will address it from a place of understanding because I have been there multiple times and also from a place of knowing that some of you mamas that are almost near the end of your

pregnancies may not be ready for this topic right now. Maybe you've never

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