Mari Llewellyn

I did just listen to your motherhood episode that you did.

Loved it.

Thank you.

Loved it.

And I have a lot of questions.

And I'd just like to hear more about your story with your pregnancies, your marriage, and where you're at now.

I guess we could start with your first pregnancy.

With wanting it to be more natural, was that because you'd heard about it or read about it?

Because I kind of have...

like similar views on it because I learned a lot just from this podcast, having people tell me about Pitocin and it is quite like a societal norm to push women to give birth sooner than they maybe are ready to.

Exactly.

But then going through IVF and being on the super medical side of it, my doctor's like, please just go the medical route, like keep things safe.

But yeah,

In me, I feel this like want to have a natural experience.

That is such a good point because I, so I got a doula and she's amazing.

Yeah, she's great, but she's for sure heavily on the holistic side.

Okay.

And I, for my first birth, I want to land somewhere in the middle.

I was going to say, how do you feel about it?

I see myself doing a hospital birth for sure.