Hey, Josh. It's 70. I'm so sorry. Something came up and I'm not going to be able to finish this segment in time. Um, I'll explain later.

This is on Orthodox. The universe is leading Jewish podcast. I am your host Mark Oppenheimer joined as ever by my fellow hosts, tablet editor at large lila vets.

Hello and tablet deputy editor Stephanie buttec. Hello 37 weeks and and reporting for duty and by the time people hear this 38 weeks and reporting for duty, right?

Poo poo poo poo poo poo. Today a special episode for you all about, well, I want Stephanie to tell you what it's all going to be about Stephanie.

What are we talking about this episode and why?

So the nice thing about hosting your own podcast is that you can take things that are happening to you and make full episodes about them.

So like sometimes we have episodes about Yom Kapoor, which is, you know, very universal. And sometimes you're like nine months pregnant and want to do an episode exploring Jewish pregnancy.

And so I am very grateful to the team for letting us do this. But you know, when I say I want to do a being pleasantly drunk on a Wednesday evening episode, the all said it was a bad idea.

It's too niche. It's too niche. Isn't that every episode liel is pleasantly hung over on a Tuesday morning with liel? Correct.

Club going up. So today we have a very special episode for our listeners. I think it will be relevant hopefully to all people regardless of where you are in your life.

Every human being has either gestated or been gestated. So it is actually relevant to all of us. I think everyone's been gestated. So I think that this hopefully will be relevant and interesting to people.

You know, we talked to experts on Jewish baby names superstitions about pregnancy and childbirth Jewish genetic diseases and more. And really this did start because even before I got pregnant, I will say that I was thinking about the Jewish implications of all this.

My husband then is a rocket carrier. And that is a gene mutation that largely affects Ashkenazi Jews and actually affects more people than people realize. And as another thing people don't realize is affects men as well.

So from the start, we were thinking about what it means to essentially have a Jewish genetic disease and to sort of start this reproductive process with that in mind.

So you had a super Jewish pregnancy. So yes, yes, deeply, deeply Jewish. And then of course, you know, all of a sudden you're like, OK, so what happens now? I'm so superstitious. Is that because I'm Jewish or I'm anxious? Like there's so much that happens that you can tie into your Jewish experience.

Right, like I knew right from the start that I wasn't going to have a baby shower because for the most part Jews don't typically have those.

But as things sort of went along, I was like, well, why let's actually look into all of these things. You know, I started thinking about, you know, the women of the Bible and what fertility and what pregnancy, even like the act of baby naming, naming a child in the Bible.

Like we learned about that in my religious studies classes. I mean, I really started thinking about all these things in a new context.

And so what I really wanted to do with today's show, and again, grateful to everyone on this team for going along with this is, is really interrogate all of these things, right?

Why don't Ashkenazi Jews name babies after living relatives, but Safari Jews do. I mean, why all these things? Why are there so many superstitions that we sort of know about in our minds, but don't necessarily understand the context of and sort of like expecting Jewishly.

And, and I'm actually not the only person on this team who is expecting Jewishly, our amazing producer, Sarah Frednader is also part of the unorthodox baby boom.

Say we have a hundred percent of those who hadn't got pregnant.

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