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Sep 2022
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Ep. 300 Esmee Geeratz - Before Birth

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Fashion designer and stylist Esmee Geeratz is pregnant with her first child. She shares her pregnancy journey thus far, from contracting covid in the second trimester, to finding out her baby is breech in the last few weeks of pregnancy, to changing her midwife at 36 weeks.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 
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