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
120 episodes
117 I 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 I 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]
In today's episode:Books: The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby & Child Care, Smart Medicine For a Healthier Child,
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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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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 I 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 I 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 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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