What's up, Badi Bees? I'm Brianna, mom, wife, serial entrepreneur, and host of the badass basic bitch podcast.

Each week, I sit down with a seemingly ordinary woman who's doing extraordinary things, and I get to share her story with you.

So let's go.

Buckle up as we're going to get real and dive into the shit nobody talks about.

Welcome to the Batty B Club.

My first birth was very traumatic, and so I didn't have that beautiful moment where you fall in love with your child immediately, and it's the greatest love ever.

All these things that happened to me and happened to friends and patients that really needed validation.

The fact that you can really dislike pregnancy, and that's okay, that's not because you're bad at pregnancy or you're just not as tough as the other people who are going through pregnancy.

So there's a lot of validation of common experiences.

The postpartum drop is the most drastic change that occurs in a person's hormones in a human lifetime.

Men never experience something like that.

Puberty, menopause, nothing is like the drop-off in hormones after birth.

Welcome back to another episode of Badass Basic Bitch.

On today's episode, we are joined by Dr. Noah Sterling, who is a board-certified OBGYN, mom of three, and the founder of Sterling

parents, which is a membership designed to relieve the anxieties and worries of pregnancy

and postpartum. And today, we're going to be talking all about how we can address the gaps

in prenatal and postpartum care. So thank you so much for being

with us, Dr. Sterling. Oh, I'm so excited to be here and to chat with you. Well, before we get

started, why don't you tell the listeners a little bit more about who you are and what you do?

Yeah. So as you said, I'm an OBGYN and, you know, I was just going along my normal OB-G-W-A-N life, practicing like everybody does, and then I got pregnant in 2017.

And I had a really difficult pregnancy. I was miserable, I would say. And I realized through that pregnancy experience, how little support the prenatal care system and the

health care system provides for the emotional journey of pregnancy and just the different things

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