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egg quality. This is the Fertility Friday podcast, episode number 500 and 83. Today's episode 583.

Today's episode is all about birth, birth experiences, birth trauma.

I'm joined by He Hewerec Stewart.

She is a powerhouse in the birth world.

And we are really talking about a few different concepts. I'd say one of the concepts we're talking about is knowledge and empowerment in terms of preparation for many women,

especially with their first birth, that maybe they're only experience with birth in a hospital

setting or a home setting or whatever the case it is.

And there's a lot of different aspects of birth to navigate.

There's a lot of different care provider, a lot of different expectations, both on your

end and the end of your care providers.

And navigating through that process for the first time without support can be

incredibly challenging. And so we talk about the importance of having support, the importance

of education, being aware of what to expect, not only on a personal level in terms of

experience. So preparing for labor and the different challenges around that,

but also preparing for some of the challenges you may face within a hospital setting or even

in a home setting. And if you do have certain preferences or certain expectations or certain

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