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Speaker 1: Who baby, my baby. I need you, Oh hell, I

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Speaker 1: need you. What to expect? As a production of I

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Speaker 1: Heart Radio, I'm your host Heidi Murkop and I'm a

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Speaker 1: mom on a mission, a mission to help you know

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Speaker 1: what to expect every step of the way. Of course,

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Speaker 1: you've got big plans for your baby's arrival. You've got

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Speaker 1: tency tiny outfits to fill baby's drawers with, that is,

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Speaker 1: once you finally decide which dresser makes the cut. Well,

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Speaker 1: what about your plans for birth plan? Maybe you already

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Speaker 1: know exactly how you'd like your labor and delivery to go,

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Speaker 1: down down to your music playlist and your preferred guest list.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you're said, on some specifics, there's definitely an badureau

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Speaker 1: with your name on it, but you're questioning others. Do

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Speaker 1: cord blood banking? Maybe you're wondering whether there's another C

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Speaker 1: as well as whether you'll be bringing any risk factors

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Speaker 1: to your delivery. No matter where you stand on giving

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Speaker 1: We're deep diving into all the different birthing options so

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Speaker 1: may have other plans. After all, you can never be

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Speaker 1: for that beautiful baby of yours. I'm here with Emma. Hey, mom,

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Speaker 1: Well I was at your birth, but you know, I

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Speaker 1: honestly don't remember if you had birth plan, did you? Actually?

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Speaker 1: So epidural, cord blood delayed clamping. You. I guess baby daddy.

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Speaker 1: was actually in your plan. In my head plan, I

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Speaker 1: So honestly, like my birth plan could have been like

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Speaker 1: went broke. I really didn't have a birth plan, I

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Speaker 1: guess per se. Okay, so you just made all of

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Speaker 1: one birth plan. I do recall that. So everything went

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Speaker 1: according to plan in that you had an epidotal both times.

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Speaker 1: You know what, my goal lift was very low, so

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Speaker 1: going back to when I delivered you, we didn't have

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Speaker 1: But what trends have you noticed in terms of birthing options.

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing, though, Any labor and delivery that results

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Speaker 1: That's whether it's medicated or unmedicated, vaginal or cesarean. And

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Speaker 1: don't let anyone anyone tell you otherwise. Here's distressing less

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Speaker 1: can do this, Mama, And as we always say, Emma,

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Speaker 1: if you can do it, anybody can do it right.

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Speaker 1: You know that's really true because like, honestly, I think

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Speaker 1: If he's like no epidural, you say yes the pidarl

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Speaker 1: You got this right, absolutely, baby a baby belof I

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