Girlfriends, episode number 121, the art of giving birth with Mary Hazeltine.

Hello and welcome to Girlfriends. I'm Danielle Bean. I'm a wife and a mom, and I'm on a mission to

help you know your worth as a woman so you can find peace, balance, and joy and family living.

This week, I'm sharing a recent conversation I had with Mary Hazeltine, wife, mom, doula, childbirth educator, and now

new author with a new book out about the art of giving birth for Catholic women. I know you're

going to love her. Let's get started. Hey, girlfriends, how are you? Thanks for being

here. I'm glad you're joining me for another episode of the Girlfriends Podcast. I'm always glad

when you're able to spend some time with me here. So, how's your week going? How was your weekend?

Here in a tick-infested New Hampshire, spring is in full

force. Finally, we've been enjoying some beautiful weather and some not so beautiful ticks. Do you get

ticks in your area of the country? I truly, truly detest these things. I don't know what God was thinking.

I know what he was thinking. He was thinking

Adam and Eve ate the apple. So ticks. They're really a horrible thing. They're so bad. And our dogs

bring them in. I find them on the kids. Three of my kids have had Lyme disease. Both of my dogs have

had Lyme disease. It's serious business. And I used to actually spend a lot of time

being really concerned about Lyme disease. And it is a serious illness. And I know people who've

suffered debilitating effects from having had Lyme disease go undiagnosed for a long time.

And I used to really struggle with this, this idea that how do we get away from it? Because there

are ticks everywhere. And you can

take all the precautions and you're still going to get ticks. And this is something that I,

as weird as it is to think about, this is a place where I've made some progress in my motherhood,

at least in the spiritual side of learning to trust God more. I felt like it was something I should

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