In today's episode of Health Youniversity, Dr. Susan Fox sits down with Erica Paulson — doula, certified clinical hypnotherapist, prenatal bonding specialist, and founder of Nurture — for a conversation that goes far beyond what most people think birth support looks like.

Erica is a hypno-birthing educator, a childbirth advocate, and — perhaps less expectedly — an award-winning poet. Today, she blends the science and the soul of birth as one experience.

This episode is about what happens when birth is treated as a nervous system experience, not just a medical one. What changes when a woman walks into labor prepared — clinically, emotionally, and somatically.

Your nervous system doesn't distinguish between a physical threat and an emotional one — and that impacts how labor unfolds. Erica calls hypnobirthing a toolkit you'll use for the rest of your life. She shares why prenatal bonding matters as much as anything on your birth prep list. She teaches how to practice advocacy in the birthing room, and why your nurses are already hoping you'll ask more questions. She explains that doulas also support partners and what that looks like in the room. And she poetically shares that mother and baby bonding begins long before first latch..

This episode is for you if you're pregnant and want to feel genuinely prepared, if you've had a birth experience that left you feeling unmet, if you're supporting someone who's pregnant and want to understand how to show up for her, if you experienced infertility before conceiving and find it hard to fully settle into pregnancy..

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