Surrendered Birth Stories
Let’s explore the amazing world of birth together! Listen for inspiring birth stories and intriguing teachings to expand your knowledge surrounding pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and postpartum life. Each soul-stirring episode is full of heart, passion, and practicality. Join me in this diverse mix of teachings and interviews with real moms and professional birth workers as we seek to more fully understand how God has designed early motherhood and the beginning of life!
Episodes
102 episodes
099 | Holding Fast To The Holy Spirit When Nothing Goes According to Plan (with Cre'Elle Campa) [Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, EDS Pregnancy, Emergency C-Section]
When you’re told you need to be done having kids by the time you're 25, that can feel like a lot of pressure, especially when you haven’t even gotten married yet, but trusting God and His plans always surpasses trusting in the world. On top of ...
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098 | Unexpected Turns and Unshakable Faith (with Matalin Russell) [Honeymoon Baby, Natural Birth, Birth Center to Hospital]
Not many couples these days aim to get pregnant as soon as possible after marriage, but Matalin and Shane aren’t your average couple. With the understanding that children are blessings from God and wanting to have many of them, they were blesse...
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097 | Not Your Average First-Time Birth Experience (with Mary Thackerson) [Surprise Pregnancy, Failed Birth Control, Home Birth]
When you have a copper IUD in place, you don’t expect to get a positive pregnancy test. But, at 16 weeks along, that’s just what happened for Mary and her husband! The surprise you must feel at news like that, being told you’re four months preg...
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096 | Don't Miss The Miracles! (with Cayla and Joel Krop) [Water Birth, Home Birth, Natural Birth]
When your first two birth experiences are filled with lots of prodromal labor and a very slow going dilation process, you should expect the same for your third, right? Wrong! Often third babies are called “wild cards” for a reason, they typical...
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095 | The Importance of a Family Vision -- Father's Day Special 2025 (with Christopher Heeter)
In this heartfelt and insightful Father's Day episode, Kayla chats with a very special guest (her husband, Chris!) for a candid conversation about the power of having a family vision. Together, they explore how setting in...
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094 | Choosing Unmedicated Birth After Three Epidurals (with Kelsie) [Natural Labor, Hospital Birth, Pain Management]
When you’ve had three medicated births that all went more or less smoothly, why on earth would you decide on an unmedicated birth for your fourth? Today Kelsie will share with us her four birth stories, all of which have lessons of their own, b...
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093 | Fighting Tooth And Nail For A Natural Twin Birth (with Amanda Kiddoo) [Twins, Birth Education, Natural Birth]
Society says to wait to have children until after you’ve been married for awhile…but what does God say? When Amanda and Desert asked God what His will was for their family, He quickly placed twins in Amanda’s womb. And oh what a journey it woul...
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092 I Letting Go & Letting God Lead The Way (with Kelsey Russell) [Water Birth, Mastitis, Birth Support]
Starting out in marriage, you think you know the plans you have for yourself, but what does God have to say about it? Kelsey and her husband had planned on fostering and adopting to grow their family, but after God told her to give up control, ...
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091 | How Prayer Can Completely Transform Your Birth (with Joselyn Johnson) [VBAC, Miscarriage, Preterm Labor]
Going into your first labor and delivery, when all of the women around you have had vaginal births, it’s easy to assume that you will too. But when Joselyn and her husband were told to have an induction for borderline low amniotic fluid levels,...
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090 I Mother's Day Special 2025: BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!
Instead of telling you what this episode is about...you'll have to listen in! But we've got a surprise in today's episode, so don't miss it!
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089 | The Power of Hanging Onto Scripture in Pregnancy and Labor (with Sammy and Michael Beausejour) [Painless Childbirth, Accidental Free Birth, Ninth Baby]
When you’ve given birth to several children, most of them painlessly, but then your last child’s birth didn’t go as planned, that unexpected turn of events along with the voices from the outside world can make you contemplate being finished hav...
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088 | Using Gratitude to Silence Fear (with Lauren Thomas) [Natural Birth, Water Birth, Surprise Pregnancy]
Sometimes when it comes to receiving the desires of our heart, all we need to do is ask God. Lauren learned this beautiful lesson in her most recent birth of her fifth child. Even though the pregnancy was a surprise, it made it all the more spe...
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087 | Rewriting Your Next Birth Story Through The Proper Birth Education (with Kelsey Hogg) [Epidural, Natural Birth, Unmedicated Birth]
Kelsey and Jesse were blessed to get pregnant right away…although if Jesse had it his way they would have had a honeymoon baby! Then, working in an office of midwives, Kelsey was able to get her first time pregnancy questions answered daily, an...
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086 | Examining the Ups and Downs of a Fast Labor (with Morgan Walston) [Precipitous Labor, Retained Placenta, Fast Birth]
Most first time moms can expect two things: first, to go way past their due date, and second, to have a long marathon of a labor. For Morgan, however, this was not the case! When Morgan woke up near her due date with cramping, she didn’t expect...
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085 I Giving God Authority Over Your Birth (with Tasha Orson) [Postpartum Psychosis, Infant Loss, Wild Pregnancy]
When you got the natural, unmedicated, intervention-free birth you were going for, with a smooth and relatively quick labor, what could go wrong? Well, when your baby is taken from you within seconds of being born, a lot. Tasha’s first birth to...
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084 I The Revelations of Childbirth Point To The Gospel (with Chloe Paul)
How much support you have or don’t have matters greatly in your labor and birth and can affect, well, pretty much everything. At the lack of support from her midwife, and doula, she transferred to the hospital for her first planned home birth. ...
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083 I Trusting God's Plan Over A Birth Plan (with Poem Nicholson)
When you’ve always pictured having a home birth, but after 48 hours of labor you decide to transfer to the hospital, you think you’d be disappointed or possibly even traumatized in some way-but that’s not Poem’s story. See how she was able to k...
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082 I The Power of Learning From Your Previous Birth Experiences (with Pamela Morzella)
When you’re walking into a hospital for your first birth, and don’t realize the preparations you needed to make as you’re attempting a natural birth, things can spiral quickly. But you don’t know what you don’t know. Then, as you’re preparing y...
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081 I When the Curveball Becomes Your Constant Companion - Part 2 (with Amanda Adkins)
Just when we think we know what we can expect from birth, God can throw us another curveball, if for nothing more than to remind us that He is in control, and that our reliance needs to be on Him and not ourselves. Amanda has four incredible bi...
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080 I When the Curveball Becomes Your Constant Companion - Part 1 (with Amanda Adkins)
Just when we think we know what we can expect from birth, God can throw us another curveball, if for nothing more than to remind us that He is in control, and that our reliance needs to be on Him and not ourselves. Amanda has four incredible bi...
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079 I The Beauty Behind Leaving Our Plans In God's Hands (with Nicki Sipin)
Trying to plan a baby around our timeline almost never works out, because God’s time is not our time, but His time is the best time. Nicki had to trust the sovereignty of God when she became pregnant not only with her husband being gone for her...
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078 | The Tension Between the Hospital System and God's Design for Birth (with Lori Morris, CNM)
How far would you drive to make sure that you didn’t have to birth in the hospital? One hour? Two hours? Well, you’ll hear today that Lori drove five hours to ensure she could have her baby the way that she wanted to, and the way that God desig...
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077 I How to Use Homeopathy During Pregnancy, Labor and Postpartum (with Emily Ransom)
Ever heard of homeopathy? Ever wonder what it was or if it could help you during your pregnancy, labor, or postpartum? Today we'll find out just what homeopathy is, and just what it isn't, and the different remedies we can use to assist us not ...
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076 I Self-Advocacy Can Be A Steep Uphill Battle (with Melissa Allen) [Seven Miscarriages, Horrible OBGYNs, Free Birth]
Time after time after time after time, Melissa had fallen prey to the hands of the hospital system in Canada, and their complete over management of the birthing process, as well as their complete lack of humanity when it comes to such a sacred ...
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075 | When God Chooses to Answer Unasked Prayers (with Virginia Simionato) [Postpartum Anxiety, Water Birth, Rainbow Baby]
Virginia's first experience at her OB's office did not go well, and later on when she felt led to have a water birth, she found out that her provider didn't offer that and switched providers. Being a first-time mom, she was more-or-less tricked...
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