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
131 episodes
128: When God Writes An Even Better Story (with Bess Ragan) [Hospital Birth, Natural Birth, First-Time Mom]
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...
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127: Is Vaginal Birth Possible After 5 C-Sections? (with Amanda Kairdolf) [Hospital Birth, VBAC, Wild Pregnancy]
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...
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126: Choosing Worship Over Worry (with Nikki Ellwood) [Home Birth, Retained Placenta, Shoulder Dystocia]
When you have a 56 hour labor, that results in a transfer from home to hospital, you would assume all of the trauma from your birth experience is wrapped up in that, right? Not for Nikki, her trauma came about during early postpartum with every...
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125: How God Gave Us Bowie (with Christopher Heeter) [Home Birth, Free Birth, Water Birth]
After six weeks of leave, we are finally back to share our most recent birth story! We hope you enjoy listening to all of the details of this birth, which is very unique to all of our other births, and how God used it to bring the concept of SU...
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Season 3
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124: Pregnancy and Long Covid Are Like Oil and Water (with Christopher Heeter) [Home Birth, Natural Birth, Midwives Brew]
While I am on a little maternity leave from the podcast, we are replaying all five of my children's birth stories, and we'll end by releasing our newest baby's birth story.Listen in today as Chris and I re-live the birth of our 5th baby,...
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Season 3
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123: Can Childbirth Ever Be An Enjoyable Experience? (with Christopher Heeter) [Home Birth, Natural Birth, Painless Childbirth]
While I am on a little maternity leave from the podcast, we are replaying all five of my children's birth stories, and we'll end by releasing our newest baby's birth story.This week, you will hear about the birth of our fourth child. Chr...
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122: Going From Zero to Transition (with Christopher Heeter) [Birth Center Birth, Natural Birth, Precipitous Birth]
While I am on a little maternity leave from the podcast, we are replaying all five of my children's birth stories, and we'll end by releasing our newest baby's birth story.To read even more details about this birth and see photos from th...
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Season 3
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121: The Day I Pushed Out A Giant Baby (with Christopher Heeter) [Birth Center Birth, Natural Birth, Shoulder Dystocia]
While I am on a little maternity leave from the podcast, we are replaying all five of my children's birth stories, and we'll end by releasing our newest baby's birth story.To read even more details about this birth and see photos from th...
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Season 3
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120: Your First Child's Birth Is The Birth Of Your Family (with Christopher Heeter) [Hospital Birth, Epidural, First Time Mom]
While I am on a little maternity leave from the podcast, we are replaying all five of my children's birth stories, and we'll end by releasing our newest baby's birth story.In this first birth, you'll learn that I was young and ignorant t...
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119: When Your Second Birth Looks Nothing Like Your First - Pt. 2 (with Ashleigh Jurena) [Birth Center Birth, Car Baby]
When your first labor is 24 hours long, starts with your water breaking and a positive GBS test and you spend the entire thing in the hospital, what can you expect for your second birth? Well, for Ashleigh, it was basically the exact opposite o...
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Season 3
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118: The Revelations From Your First Birth Should Change Your Next - Pt. 1 (with Ashleigh Jurena) [Hospital Birth, First Time Mom, Epidural]
When your first labor is 24 hours long, starts with your water breaking and a positive GBS test and you spend the entire thing in the hospital, what can you expect for your second birth? Well, for Ashleigh, it was basically the exact opposite o...
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Season 3
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117: God Is Trustworthy Even When Our Birth Plans Go Awry (with E.J. Lee) [Hospital Birth, C-Section, Miscarriage]
What happens when you’re planning a natural, unmedicated birth at a birth center, and then one little leak of your waters changes everything? E.J.’s plans were turned upside down when she was suddenly being induced, quite unsuccessfully, and th...
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116: Rediscovering Your Belief During Grief (with Madison Snyder) [Miscarriage, Gestational Diabetes, Induction]
When you find out you’re pregnant and you’ve never had more joy, faith, or closeness with God in your entire life, you’re on the mountain top! Then the enemy takes that baby away from you, and everything comes crashing down-how can you recover ...
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115: What To Do When Your Baby Gets Sick (with Emily Ransom) [Fever, Ear Infection, Colds, Croup, Flu, Pink Eye, Tummy Bug]
Books: The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby & Child Care, Smart Medicine For a Healthier Child, How to Raise a Healthy Ch...
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114: Birth Redemption Comes In Many Shapes & Sizes - Pt. 2 (with Matthew and Monika Taylor) [Precipitous Birth, Two Under Two, Water Birth]
Amazingly, Matthew and Monika went on to have their second child relatively quickly after she was finally healed from her first, and again had another smooth pregnancy. But all of her plans would come crashing down as her due date approached, a...
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Season 3
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113: When Giving Birth Is the Easy Part - Pt. 1 (with Matthew and Monika Taylor) [First Time Mom, Fast Labor, Postpartum Complications]
When you have a relatively smooth pregnancy, and a spontaneous, quick, uncomplicated and unmedicated birth at 39 weeks, you seem to have won the pregnancy and childbirth lottery, right? That’s what Matthew and Monika thought as well until she h...
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112: Pregnancy Isn't Easy, But It's Worth Every Second (with Daniel and Alyssa Mead) [Difficult Pregnancy, Water Birth, First Time Mom]
Sometimes getting pregnant is easier than you expected, but then the pregnancy itself ends up being much more difficult. So learning to trust God and expect the unexpected is the name of the game! Alyssa and Daniel, while experiencing a difficu...
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111: The Beautiful Simplicity of A Planned Free Birth (with Katelyn Morgan) [Home Birth, Water Birth, Wild Pregnancy]
Wild pregnancy...free birth... Are you familiar with those terms? While Katelyn had a home birth for her first, she went one step further and planned a free birth for her second. Unlike some moms, she’s not married to the idea, and it’s not a h...
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110: Q&A with Kayla! [Preventing Water From Breaking, Early Ultrasounds, Preventing Tearing, Placenta Encapsulation, Episiotomies]
In today's Q&A episode, I'm going to answer several of the most commonly asked questions we've gotten as of recently. Tune in to find out how to keep your water from breaking too soon, how to prevent tearing during delivery, what episiotomi...
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109: God's Lessons and Blessings Are All Around You - Part 2 (with Balt and Miriam Peña) [Home Birth, Water Birth, Birth Redemption]
For her second birth, Miriam realized the amount of support she truly needed, and that instead of isolating herself, surrounding herself with like minded women was what she needed in order to be able to fully surrender to the Lord and lean on H...
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108: When Self-Advocacy Is Your Only Option - Part 1 (with Balt and Miriam Peña) [Hyperemesis Gravidarum, Hospital Transfer, First Time Mom]
I’ve heard of many moms who plan an unmediated hospital birth for their first, and then some who even plan a birth center birth for their first, and then the handful of moms who plan a home birth for their first, but it’s rare I find somebody w...
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Season 3
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1:35:09
107: The Contrast Between A Medicated Birth & A Natural Birth (with Emma Gowan) [Epidural Gone Wrong, Painless Childbirth, Prayer In Birth]
For your first birth, you end up having an elective induction that goes relatively smoothly with a very strong epidural and no major complications, other than a huge headache that was able to be resolved, albeit in a strange manner. Why then, w...
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106: Supernatural Childbirth and Allowing God To Lead Your Birth (with Ariana Ganz) [Painless Childbirth, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Prayer In Birth]
The Lord is always speaking…if only we will listen. As Ariana took the journey of having five kids in eight years, God taught her so many incredibly valuable lessons. By the time she had her fourth, His voice was so clear and her trust in Him w...
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105: Introducing...DOULA DIARIES! 1st Edition [C-Section, Hospital Birth, Unnecessary Episiotomy]
Listen in as I share three different stories from my time as a doula, starting all the way back to my first year over a decade ago. Today you’ll hear how I had the honor of being the eyes in the room for a blind mother as she met her baby for t...
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104: Show Me Your Friends And I'll Show You Your Birth (with Christine Hollis) [Precipitous Labor, Hospital Birth, Birth Support]
Have you ever tried to do something alone, when you knew God designed you to do it in community? Christine was looking for like-minded friends during her third pregnancy that she could be in deep relationship with, and God answered her prayers....
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