Welcome to the My Essential Birth podcast. I'm Courtney and I'm Stephanie and we're professional

doulas, childbirth educators and the creators of My Essential Birth, the holistic, empowering,

online childbirth education course helping mothers everywhere confidently achieve their best birth.

So join us each week as we share tips and advice for all things pregnancy birth and beyond.

Be sure to subscribe to the podcast so that you can be the first to get new content.

And head over to www.mysentialbirth.com for more information about our birth course and to join a

community of mamas just like you.

We want to give a shout out to our reviewer of the week, Mariah underscore C, who says,

great encouragement. I've been listening to this podcast for almost a year now, and I absolutely

love it. I recently had a baby in October. Congratulations. And this podcast really helped me understand a wide variety of

topics prior to birth. My out of hospital birth did not go as planned, but I kept remembering

their episode number 56 that I still have control over my birth. Although I ended up with a

hospital birth and a lot of unexpected events came about, I still had control of my birth

and so many things still went the way I had hoped despite some hurdles. Thank you, Courtney and

Stephanie, for faithfully empowering and encouraging women. I constantly look forward to new episodes

each week and can't wait to apply these tools to my next pregnancy. Mariah, congratulations on your birth.

I love that you really took the heart, the perspective that we shared. You're going to sometimes

get thrown curve balls in birth. That doesn't mean that everything you wanted goes down the drain.

There's still so much you can do in a variety of birth settings, cesarean birth included.

And I love that you've been listening

for a year. That's kind of cool for us and cool for you. Like I love it. And she's still listening

even after having her baby. What a great, what a great perspective. Knowledge is power. Yep.

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