{REBROADCAST} Contractions: What You Can Expect, How to Know It’s Time for You to Head to Your Birth Place, & How to Keep Track

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4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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We're sharing our most downloaded episode in 2023! 🎉 Most births are not like the movies. They don’t typically start with a massive gush of water followed by insanely intense contractions that have mom rushing to the hospital. 🚑 That’s not to say a birth can’t start with your waters breaking and even immediate contractions, but most often, you’re going to have some time to ease into labor. With that in mind, I’m going to walk you through what you can expect with those first contracti...

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0:00.0	First of all, I just want to jump on here and say thank you to everyone that has followed along.
0:04.4	If you have left a review, if you have listened and shared a podcast, if you've joined me somewhere on Instagram or said hello in the emails, thank you for being here.
0:11.8	And even if you haven't reached out in any way, I hope that you are enjoying everything that you're hearing and you're utilizing all that information to build your best birth.
0:19.8	I want to wish you all a very
0:21.3	Merry Christmas and I hope you enjoy the rest of this year. For our last episode that we have,
0:27.0	this we always like to do our favorite, our biggest episode, the most popular episode of the year,
0:32.1	and run it again for you during this week. So this one's all about contractions, what you can
0:36.3	expect, how to know that it's time
0:37.9	for you to head to your birthplace and how to keep track. Along with that, make sure that you keep an
0:42.8	eye on your email because of the beginning of 2024, I'm going to be sending out a survey and it's
0:47.4	going to ask you all the questions about what you want to hear from me on this podcast for this
0:52.1	next year. So I hope you have a great rest of your year, and I will see you in 2024.
0:57.8	Women have been giving birth for centuries, so it's a pretty natural experience, right?
1:02.4	Wrong. I'm Stephanie King, professional doula, childbirth educator, and the creator of the
1:07.4	My Essential Birth Course, the online childbirth education course that's helping
1:11.5	women everywhere confidently achieve their best birth. Today's culture would have us think that
1:16.2	births should be treated like an illness or an emergency and that most of us need other people
1:20.4	telling us what's best for our bodies because we aren't the experts. So sit tight because if you're
1:25.5	tuning into this podcast, you'll probably start to believe
1:28.1	in your body, your intuition, and find yourself empowered and confident to do what it takes
1:32.9	to have the birth of your dreams. If you like listening to me take you through these weekly
1:36.8	topics step by step, then you're going to love the My Essential Birth course. Make sure that you're
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