Hey, this is Amanda, women's health dietitian. And I'm Emily, nutritional therapy practitioner.

And this is the RU menstrual podcast, where we help you navigate the confusing world of women's hormones and teach you how to have healthy periods.

Each week, we will be diving into a different topic on women's health and sharing our perspective using nutrition, female physiology, and metabolic health.

Our goal is to help you wait through conflicting health information and empower you on your

healing journey.

We hope you enjoy it.

Okay, we are here to do our birth story episode, which I feel like we've been trying to do

forever, but we're finally doing it. You guys don't know my husband. So this is my husband.

If you guys are watching on YouTube, you'll be able to see him. My husband Ian, Eliana is here,

our new baby. And we're going to talk about

our birth story, our home birth. And then I had posted a question box in my stories like a few

months ago to see like what you guys want to know about the birth story and everything. So we're

going to make sure we address all

that stuff, like as we go through the timeline. But I'm excited. I'm excited. I'm excited. Usually

there's a bit of a height difference between us, but. Oh, yeah. So if you're watching, I'm like a very

short person. It's just awkward. I'm trying, I have to stand. I have to stand because I'm like, Eliana person. It's just awkward.

I have to stand because I'm like, Eliana isn't a carrier than a wrap.

So if I sit down, she will not like it.

So we're going to hope that we get through this whole first story with her asleep.

All right.

So let's start with the labor prep stuff. And like we're going to kind of go through like what we did before, the actual birth and then a little bit after. And you guys had a lot of home birth questions. So we'll talk about that stuff. So what did we do to prep for labor? Specifically like, you know, the days leading up, I had a lot of questions. Did we try to induce labor?

All that stuff. So I would say like to prep for labor the biggest. I talked a lot about it in the

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