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
112 episodes
109 I 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 I 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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107 I 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 I 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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103 I How The Misery of HG Turned Into A Testimony of God's Love (with Allie Bathalon) [Hyperemesis Gravidarum, Home Birth, Faith Crisis]
When you've been trying to conceive for months, and then you finally do, you think you’d be grateful for every part of pregnancy. But that’s rarely the case for a mom with Hyperemisis Gravardarium, also known as HG. When HG hit hard for Alexand...
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102 I The Incredible 1-Hour Labor (with Erin Hamrick) [Precipitous Labor, IGT, Accidental Free Birth]
When your first labor is faster than lightning, what can you expect for your second? Well, apparently the same! Erin goes against the norm with her birth stories as you’ll hear today. She only full realized she was in labor for about fifteen mi...
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101 I Trusting That God Is Writing Your Story (with Mary Kathryn Long) [Postpartum Hemorrhage, Postpartum Depression, Miscarriage]
We’re told first labors can be long, and on average, the first labor left undisturbed is roughly 25 hours long, but can you mentally prepare yourself for a 70 hour labor? That was Mary Kathryn’s experience, and I know it’s been the experience o...
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100 I 100 QUICK TIPS & ADVICE for Pregnancy, Labor, Postpartum and Breastfeeding
I asked and you answered! To celebrate our 100th episode, we are running through 100 quick tips for pregnancy, labor, postpartum and breastfeeding! Some of these you may have heard before, and some of them may be brand new to you. Whether you'r...
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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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