Welcome to the Birthful Podcast. I'm Adriana Lozada, and today we'll be talking about taking care of you.

When people say, oh, after having a child, your life will never be the same.

They tend to leave out that being a parent is crazy hard.

How can you prioritize your self-care in a simple and sustainable way that will make everything

better?

Mara Oskategi tells us more.

Stay tuned.

This episode of Birthful is brought to you by Emily Landry,

birthdula, childbirth educator and massage therapist in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Check out her blog for parents

and other birthworkers at mamaasagedula.com. Want the next birthful episode to be brought to the world

by you? Then go to patreon.com slash birthful.

The Birthful podcast, talking to maternity pros to inform your intuition.

Hello, Mighty Mamas and Mamas to Be. As always, thank you for listening and for all the love you get to the show

every week through your comments and those ratings and reviews that you leave in iTunes,

those are especially helpful for getting the podcast in front of more Mamas. So thank you very much.

On my side of the world, it's finally becoming to feel a little bit more like spring, which of course has me then

looking forward to summer. If you're new or newish to the podcast, then you may not know that

the summer is when I focus on birth stories. I am a big believer that listening to good birth

stories, whether they are in a hospital or home, with or without drugs, non-medicated or a cesarian birth,

any of it helps normalize birth and balances out all the horror stories that you may hear

from strangers, those helpful strangers, or the drama-filled stories you get on TV.

So if you feel like you'd like to share your birth story on the show, let's do it.

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