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.

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Our reviewer of the week is Kylie 22.

She says, I'm almost seven months pregnant and up until a few weeks ago, I was absolutely terrified at the thought of giving birth. Girl, you're not alone. I was filled with sadness,

feeling like I was spending my pregnancy

in fear and anxiety i started listening to this podcast every day and it's like my mindset has

completely changed knowledge really is power y'all are so fun and encouraging to listen to and i feel

like i gain so much knowledge courage courage, and confidence with every listen.

Thank you for what y'all do. It's truly made me feel strong and empowered and ready to take on

birth. Kylie, we are so happy that you feel that way. And it's interesting because I just have to

throw this out there. I was reading an article about it was like 10 cool things that babies do in the womb and there's a study where

they've realized that babies can pick up on when the pregnant mom is feeling stressed.

They notice that babies who were their mom was experiencing stress or anxiety were more likely

to like touch their face in a certain way.

Anyway, we can maybe, maybe I'll throw that up on Instagram this week. But I'm not trying to

make you worry if you tend to get stressed. I did. My kids are mostly normal. But I want you to

know that when you choose to come at your pregnancy and birth from a mindset of

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