Is Birth Like Running a Marathon?

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My Essential Birth

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4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Running a marathon was one of the most challenging, rewarding and empowering experiences of my entire life, much like birth, and I am so excited to share this incredible story with all of you! Yes it's 100% true that you do not need to be able to run a marathon to give birth. I should know, I gave birth three times without ever being physically able to run a marathon. However, we often hear that the physical exertion is the same so now that I have done both I am anxious to tell you everything...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the My Essential Birth podcast. I'm Courtney and I'm Stephanie and we're professional
0:05.5	doulas, childbirth educators and the creators of My Essential Birth, the holistic, empowering,
0:11.3	online childbirth education course helping mothers everywhere confidently achieve their best birth.
0:17.0	So join us each week as we share tips and advice for all things pregnancy, birth and beyond.
0:22.2	Be sure to subscribe to the podcast so that you can be the first to get new content.
0:27.2	And head over to www.mysentialbirth.com for more information about our birth course and to join a community of mamas just like you.
0:41.4	It's the marathon episode you all have been waiting for but before we get into that we want to share our reviewer of the week. This is
0:46.2	Kenna Lee Beasley who says a gift for future mommies. What a beautiful spoken podcast I've
0:52.0	stumbled upon. I can't wait to learn more from these ladies through my own first pregnancy.
0:57.0	Thank you for your words, your humor, your personal stories that are easy to relate to,
1:01.7	and for your time in producing this podcast.
1:04.9	We are going to come at you today with an incredible personal story.
1:08.5	And I just have to say, I had been watching Stephanie from
1:12.2	a far train for this marathon. I think I've only gone on like one minuscule run with you.
1:16.9	Worth it. I died. She did great. You were very patient, but I've watched you commit to your
1:25.1	training schedule and get it done. There were times that I would be talking to you
1:28.5	and it was late at night and you were still headed out for a run. And this is a woman, you guys,
1:32.8	who homeschools her children, works another job, works on my essential birth, social media,
1:39.9	you know, takes care of a lot of our podcasting. She is a powerhouse of a woman. She has church
1:45.1	and community commitments. And yet this was something that she set a goal for herself to do and was
1:50.1	incredibly committed to through the difficult time that I think the whole world has been
1:55.5	experiencing these last several months. So I'm an incredibly proud friend today and you guys are going to love what she
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