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

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All right. I'm really excited for this week's episode and we've kind of talked about it

this last week, but we get a lot of questions in our Instagram feed, emails, a lot of questions

from our moms within the group, all wondering and wanting to know more about

gestational diabetes and what that means for them, for their baby, for their pregnancy, for their

birth, what that looks like. So we have here with us today, and I am so excited to have her on,

Karina Robinson, and she is a diabetes specialist. And today specifically, we're going to be

talking about gestational diabetes.

And so, Karina, will you take a moment and introduce yourself, talk a little bit about your

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