July is fibroid awareness month, so today I am re-earing in an episode on what happens when you have fibroids during your pregnancy and also the impact of having had fibroids removed before pregnancy. Now, if you want to connect with other folks who may have experience with having fibroids during pregnancy or just want to connect with other women and birth workers during your pregnancy, whether you

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and the impact they have on pregnancy. Welcome to the All About Pregnancy and Birth Podcast. If you're having a baby in the hospital,

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well over a thousand babies into this world. I've been a doctor for over 20 years, and I'm here to

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Now let's get to it.

Welcome to another episode of the podcast.

This is episode number 103.

Thank you.

Thank you for being here and spending some of your time with me today.

So you're going to learn today about uterine fibroids in pregnancy. And I've actually gotten

quite a few questions about this more honestly than I think I would have expected. And the

questions indicate that there's just a lot of

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