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.

We're celebrating over one year of podcasting and over 100,000 downloads by rebroadcasting our

most popular episode to date, which we feel really sums up the kind of care that women

today are looking for, which is that any way you choose to

give birth should be respected and supported by everybody. We also wanted to give a shout

out to our reviewer of the week, Mick-carlson, must listen to for any mama. I've been listening

to this podcast since before I got pregnant and dreaming of the day I would

pee on a stick and have those two pink lines show up so I could buy their birth course and get

started. Well, here I am five months pregnant and almost done with the course. I cannot get enough

of this podcast and all these ladies' content. Because I'm the first in my family to have a

baby and the first to want a completely natural birth, I never imagined that I would feel so

prepared, confident, beautiful, and empowered, but I really do. I know my options and I feel like I've

been able to gather the birth team of my dreams,

even in Corona times, because of the information, practice, facts, and questions I have worked

on with my husband at your suggestion. I anxiously await each podcast and have listened to almost

all of them more than once. Thank you, Steph in court for all you do in helping me to feel

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