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.

All right, let's kick things off with our reviewer of the week, Kelly Jojo 7. She says,

My husband and I are going to start trying soon. I am excited and I want to be as prepared as

possible. As a nurse, I've seen how pushy hospitals can be, and we know we want a

birth in a birthing center or at home. This has been incredibly helpful in navigating what

things to watch out for, research, and how to prepare. Super grateful for this resource, and I'm looking

forward to taking the course once we have a butt in the oven.

Kelly Jojo, you're amazing.

The fact that you're even thinking about preparing for your birth before you're even pregnant,

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