I noticed something was wrong when I was sitting in my rocking chair with him,

and I noticed his soft spot, let's pulsating, and I got this very, like, intense feeling and

thought, I was like, what if I just poached his soft spot? Yeah.

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And now let's get into this week's episode.

Happy Monday, you guys. I have a birth story and a postpartum story to share with you guys.

I had Gabi come onto the podcast this week and Gabi experienced postpartum anxiety and postpartum

OCD after the birth of her son, and she also had a horrible, oh my gosh, I cannot say horrible,

loudly enough. She had a horrible experience in the hospital, being cared for by the nurses

and the staff, and it just I think fueled kind of her postpartum anxiety and her OCD that she

experienced afterwards. It was just bad. I just got off recording with her, and I feel so bad

for her, and just other people who have these horrible experiences with healthcare staff, because

it is just not a good rep representation of us as labor and delivery nurses and OB-GYNs and

midwives and just do less than anybody who is in the birth space. We need to be communicating with

our patients. We need to be listening to them, and that is not what Gabi experienced at all.

So I'm not going to share too much. She has a really, really powerful story, so let's get right

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