Surrendered Birth Stories: Your Christian Birth Story Podcast
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
154 episodes
151: Prepping For Birth Physically and Spiritually (First-Time Mom, Natural Birth, Healthy Living)
When you’re planning on getting pregnant in advance, making sure your body is healthy and nourished can truly be to your advantage. That’s what Susan did before attempting to conceive her son, and the Lord blessed her with a quick conception an...
150: DOULA DIARIES -- 3rd Edition (Crazy Birth Soundtracks, OB Drama, and Beginner Doula Mistakes)
What did you listen to when you were in labor? What calmed you down? Or...what pumped you up?! Also...today we dive into a story of the ridiculousness of some OB's, but also the supernatural power of God! And lastly, inductions. So many of them...
149: Discovering That Motherhood Is Ministry (Home Birth, Breech Birth, Natural Birth) [with David and Tesia Hoffman]
Can you praise God in the storm? Can you praise God when thing after thing after thing is going wrong, or not going how we wanted or thought it would go? Will you still praise Him? Will you trust Him? Be inspired in your faith as you listen to ...
148: How Your Faith Can Reduce Stress In Pregnancy (Home Birth, First-Time Mom) [with Mitch and Angeline Bestenlehner]
When you get to marry a chiropractor…you’re going to want to have a home birth! And that’s just what happened for Angeline when she married Mitch. Thankfully she didn’t have to convince him to get on board with a home birth like a lot of other ...
147: The Joys and Difficulties of Becoming A Mom (First-Time Mom, Hospital Birth, Breastfeeding) [with Emily Kelly]
As a first-time mom, things were going very smoothly for Emily. After getting pregnant quickly, she wanted and planned and prepared for an unmedicated hospital birth. She took a great in-depth class, read books and hired a doula. Then during a ...
146: The Hidden Consequences of Trying To Control Your Birth (Infertility, IVF, Endometriosis) [with Inara MacKay]
Sometimes it takes several births to learn what God has been trying to teach you all along-that His ways are above our ways, that His plans are better than our plans, and that if we would just sink into that promise and let go of the reigns, th...
145: Defeating Anxiety in Pregnancy, Postpartum, and Motherhood [with Taylor Hayes]
Have you ever been anxious about having a miscarriage once conceiving? What about the results of an ultrasound that said something other than what you expected to hear? Have you ever been anxious approaching labor, unsure how you were going to ...
144: Make Sure You Trust Your Birth Care Provider (Natural Birth, Home Birth, Water Birth) [with Aileeah Colgan]
At 18 years old, before you’re ready to start a family, you’re told that you have cancer and that you’ll have a very hard time getting pregnant one day so you should just plan on doing IVF. Then, you find out that your test results got mixed up...
143: Labor and the Fruit of the Spirit (Infertility, IVF, Hospital Birth) [with Morgan Mathis]
What would it be like to hold your baby girl in your arms for the first time after 6+ years of struggling with infertility? Nothing short of a miracle! While Morgan and her husband were so incredibly grateful for God’s gift of their daughter, t...
142: How First-Time Parents Can Be Best Equipped For Birth (First Baby, Natural Birth, Hospital Birth) [with George & Emily Sandridge]
Most first-time moms who are planning a hospital birth arrive at the hospital too early, and some of them even get sent home, which can be incredibly defeating as a laboring woman wanting so badly to meet her baby. Thankfully, Emily made some r...
141: Hold Your Birth Plan Loosely, But Not Your Convictions (Home Birth, Hospital Transfer, Natural Birth) [with Jennifer Plemmons]
When you’ve already had 3 babies and 2 home births, you plan to have your next baby at home as well. But what do you do when your water unexpectedly breaks and there’s thick meconium in it? You have a decision to make. Do you decide to stay at ...
140: You Should Marry a Husband Who... [with Kayla Heeter]
This episode is dedicated to my husband, Chris Heeter. He's legitimately the GOAT (and he also taught me what the GOAT meant)! He turned 40 this weekend and I wanted to take the time to celebrate HIM! So this episode is all about how amazing of...
139: A Godly Perspective Leads to a Surrendered Birth (Hospital Birth, C-Section, Postpartum Euphoria) [with Kayla Steele]
How do you know you’re pregnant without taking a pregnancy test? How about God simply tells you that you are. That’s the kind of trust and faith that Kayla had with the Lord from the start of her pregnancy, and it would carry her throughout the...
138: A Birth Advocate In A Hospital Setting Is A Must (First-Time Mom, Hospital Birth, Induction) [with Amelia Williams]
Sometimes all it takes is one person’s recommendation and you taking it to change your perspective on everything. That’s what happened to Amelia when she read Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth. So she went on to hire a doula and plan a natural chil...
137: Triumph Over Trauma & the Power of Birth Support - Pt. 2 (Hospital Birth, Natural Birth) [with Kathleen Jones]
When Kathleen was pregnant for the second time, she was understandably anxious about the impending delivery, but this time, per her therapist’s recommendation, decided to hire a doula and went to a different hospital to deliver, and her journey...
136: Keeping Faith Amidst A Traumatic Birth - Pt. 1 (Hospital Birth, First-Time Mom, Birth Trauma) [with Kathleen Jones]
When you get sent home from the hospital during your first labor because you're only 1.5cm dilated and told you’re in early labor, it can be quite confusing to know when to come back. Poor Kathleen ended up laboring all alone, all night long, t...
135: DOULA DIARIES -- Volume 2 (Delayed Cord Clamping, Amnio Infusion, Unplanned Home Birth)
Today we'll dive into three more birth stories from my time as a doula. I'll walk you through what it was like for me to support these moms during their labors. First up is the story of the very first birth I ever attended as a doula in trainin...
134: Realizing the Gravity of Becoming A Parent (Natural Birth, Car Baby, Home Birth) [with Mitchell & Molly Dorsett]
When you're wanting a more holistic birth but decide to go to the hospital with an OB care team, things may not turn out how you envisioned. So for your second birth you hire hospital midwives, thinking that will be better, but then realize the...
133: Can Breech Twins Actually Be Delivered Naturally? (Twin Birth, Breech Twins, Natural Birth)
When you’ve only ever given birth outside of the hospital and with midwives…what would it be like to have to birth in the hospital with high risk OB’s? In the state of California, where Breanna lives, midwives are not permitted to deliver twins...
132: Planned Hospital Birth, Accidental Home Birth - Pt. 2 (Home Birth, Natural Birth) [with Lycie Ross]
After having her first two babies in Tennessee, where home birth was more affordable, Lycie and her husband had since moved out to northern California where midwifery was not only way more expensive, but the midwives were also not in line with ...
131: Reclaiming Motherhood After Postpartum Trauma - Pt. 1 (Nuchal Hand, Postpartum Complications, Postpartum Depression) [with Lycie Ross]
When you grow up with a midwife as your mother, and you and your siblings were all born at home, planning a home birth for your first doesn’t seem strange at all. And it wasn’t for Lycie and her husband. While it was long, all was going well un...
130: So You Had A Home Birth...Now What? [with Kayla Heeter]
So you just had a home birth...what do you do next? If it isn't obvious already, home birth is starkly and vastly different than a hospital or birth center birth. But is it any different immediately following the birth?In tod...
129: God Will Meet You In The Mess (Free Birth, Home Birth, Precipitous Labor) [with Karyn Dunavant]
The twists and turns that can take place in our lives as God leads us from one season to another are astounding. From leaving religious cults, and trying to find healing through other churches that then turn around and treat you similarly, even...
128: When God Writes An Even Better Story (Hospital Birth, Natural Birth, First-Time Mom) [with Bess Ragan]
How do you react when you never planned on having children of your own, never planned on having the title “mom” or “dad” but then the Lord changes those plans drastically…and little did you know you’d gain three daughters in a 24-hour period? T...
127: Is Vaginal Birth Possible After 5 C-Sections? (Hospital Birth, VBAC, Wild Pregnancy) [with Amanda Kairdolf]
What do you do when God is telling you one thing, but the doctors and medical system are telling you the opposite? This is a theme that came up for Amanda from before she got pregnant all the way through the births of her six children. The less...