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.

Before we get started, we would like to invite you to leave a review for this podcast in iTunes.

It's a brand new show and it's really important in the launch of a new podcast to gather reviews.

Will you please help us spread the word by leaving a review so that more

mamas have a chance of finding this podcast when they search for one? We read every single

review and we promise to keep doing that. We love what everyone, all of you ladies, have been

saying about the Pregnancy and Birth Made Easy podcast here with My Essential Birth. So thank you

everyone for your continued support.

Our reviewer of the week is Trey Bocoup. She says this is the best pregnancy podcast ever.

Love Stephanie and Courtney. They're always so fun to listen to and super informative. Well,

that's a really high. Obviously, we agree with you. We agree. That is setting

the bar high and we will promise to try our best to deliver every single week. We hope you guys are

going to love this week's podcast episode topic. We're talking about how it is a little bit

different with our first pregnancies and births versus all the rest. So for some of our moms

that are listening, maybe you're a first time mom. We hope that we can bring a little bit of joy to your

life for our second, third, fourth, sixth, seventh moms. We know that you're just probably going to be

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