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 Lainey B. 22. She said, empowered to manage my own birth. Ladies,

I love this podcast. A huge thank you for your passion and commitment to helping women own

their birth instead of birth being something that happens to them.

Ooh, I love that. Sorry. I am pregnant with my first and was completely oblivious to all the

details that would help me feel both mentally and physically prepared for delivery. I tell all

my pregnant friends about your podcast and Instagram page. I'm sure your birthing class is fantastic too,

but we already had one booked locally. Keep it up, please. It's appreciated.

Thank you for spreading the word to friends about our Instagram, about our podcast, about our

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