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. This is one of our hot topics that we are pretty excited to do. We're excited to see

what everyone has to say about it as well. But this is all about OBs obstetricians versus midwives.

And I know that that is controversial, that it's kind of going to get some

people flaring up and we're kind of excited about that we certainly have our own views

but as always we want to make sure that we are giving you all the information from all

the sides and we want to hear from you guys exactly what you think so we're going to

go into just some basics we want to talk about what kind of

schooling they have, each of them, including like their training and what that looks like for birth.

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