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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!

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085 I Giving God Authority Over Your Birth (with...

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2025/04/07

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 took a wrong turn when her baby was quite unnecessarily taken to the NICU after birth and she lost not only that golden hour, but breastfeeding initiation, skin to skin and more. All of this played a huge role into her difficult postpartum where postpartu...

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084 I The Revelations of Childbirth Point To The...

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2025/03/31

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. Thankfully, God’s grace met her there through a wonderful nurse who was able to help her through the rest of her labor. The next time around, Chloe prepared her team well. Not only did she have the constant support and encouragement from her husband, bu...

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083 I Trusting God's Plan Over A Birth Plan (with...

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2025/03/24

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 keep her hands open in a posture of surrender to the Lord with every detail of her birth, and how His peace and His presence trumped anything else she was feeling, and how grateful she was to be living in His will, even if that meant not having a home bi...

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082 I The Power of Learning From Your Previous Birth...

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2025/03/17

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 yourself for a repeat experience, because at least now you know what to expect, all is going well until well…it’s not, and suddenly your entire experience is tainted to the point where you don’t even want to hold your own baby. Years go by and you're con...

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081 I When the Curveball Becomes Your Constant...

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2025/03/10

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 birth stories for us, and four incredibly different stories at that. From a planned birth center birth to a severe preeclampsia induction to a placental abruption to a C-section to a NICU stay…and that’s all just in her first birth experience. There’s als...

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080 I When the Curveball Becomes Your Constant...

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2025/03/03

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 birth stories for us, and four incredibly different stories at that. From a planned birth center birth to a severe preeclampsia induction to a placental abruption to a C-section to a NICU stay…and that’s all just in her first birth experience. There’s als...

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079 I The Beauty Behind Leaving Our Plans In God's...

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2025/02/24

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 entire first trimester of all day nausea and vomiting, but also with her husband being deployed during the end of her pregnancy, their baby’s birth, and the first three and a half month’s of their baby's life. You will be encouraged and lifted up in yo...

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078 | The Tension Between the Hospital System and...

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2025/02/17

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 designed her to. Once a medically minded labor and delivery nurse, inducing women at the hospital every night, Lori was changed after going through her doula certification, and ended up becoming a certified nurse midwife who attends home births. Hear all abo...

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077 I How to Use Homeopathy During Pregnancy, Labor...

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2025/02/10

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 only in pregnancy and labor, but into motherhood as well. Our guest today is certified Homeopath, Emily Ransom, which you can find at @homeopathywithemily on Instagram or at homeopatihywithemily.com. Here are the remedies we discussed in today's episo...

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076 I Self-Advocacy Can Be A Steep Uphill Battle...

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2025/02/03

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 event. Then, thinking having a home birth with midwives would be worlds better, she was still left fighting for herself every step of the way through her pregnancy, labor, and postpartum. Then, she experienced a series of losses that nobody should have ...

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075 | When God Chooses to Answer Unasked Prayers...

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2025/01/27

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 into an induction at 39 weeks. While it overall went smoothly, she learned a lot about what she did and didn't want for her next birth. When she got pregnant with her rainbow baby after a devastating miscarriage between her two sons, God told her she w...

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074 | A Journey Through the Unexpected (with Sidney...

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2025/01/20

Everything can seem like it’s going perfectly when you get pregnant quickly, are having no complications and feel well, but for Sidney and her husband, everything changed at her anatomy scan. Getting diagnosed with a severe heart condition for her son in utero turned her world upside down, and would play a major role into how her birth would unfold, as well as how her postpartum and life in general would go following his delivery. A few years later after life had gotten into a groove, they wo...

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073 I Breaking the Fears Around Home Birth (with...

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2025/01/13

Homemaker, homestead, home birth…it’s all about that home sweet home! Being a first time mom, many women, even those who are wanting a natural birth, are talked out of or scared out of having a home birth, but not Michaela. Hear her beautiful story today as she tells us how she had to give God the control for her birth daily and what an incredibly transformative and uplifting experience birth can be, particularly when it’s in the comfort and safety of your own home.Interested in sharing your ...

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072 I Finding God's Strength In Our Weakness (with...

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2025/01/06

Some pregnancies are easy, and some are hard, but we have to trust God through both types of experiences. Some labors are longer and some are shorter, but again, we have to trust God through it all. Sometimes we think we’re in control and have a plan, but we have to learn to surrender to God’s plan in order for our trust in Him to be real. This puts our faith from thoughts to actions, and ultimately, gives us His supernatural peace that only comes through that surrender. Interested in sh...

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071 | Birth Is a Gateway to The Presence of God (with...

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2024/12/30

Have you ever heard of prodromal labor? It’s more common in subsequent pregnancies but not so common for your first. Poor Katelyn had to deal with endless contractions for days on end for weeks at a time, always wondering is this really it? Am I actually in labor now? It’s a total mind game, and brings you to a place of complete surrender to God. Hear how the rest of Katelyn’s labor went when it actually did start, and why a few hours after birth, she was already ready to do it again!Interest...

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070 I Induction 101: Tips on Avoiding and Preparing...

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2024/12/23

In the United States today, about ⅓ of all births are induced, and about ⅓ of all births end in C-Sections. And while inductions aren’t responsible for all of those C-Sections, I’d argue they’re responsible, at least indirectly, for about half of them. Today we deep dive into the world of inductions-what are they? How are they done? Why are they done? And why shouldn’t they be done? Is there anything you can do to prevent having an induction? Is there anything you can do to induce naturally i...

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069 I How Five C-Sections Revealed the Sovereignty of...

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2024/12/16

When you’re planning a natural, unmedicated birth at a birth center, and then at the last minute you end up having a C-Section for a breech positioned baby, you don’t realize the lasting impact it can have on you and your future pregnancies for years to come. Emily, mother of five, shares her stories today, and has many encouraging words for moms out there who have either had a C-Section, or will be having a C-Section, and how God is sovereign over it all. Interested in sharing your stor...

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068 I How Disappointment Can Be a Gateway for...

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2024/12/09

It can be so incredibly difficult to understand God’s timing. He can see and understand so much more than we’ll ever be able to, and living in His will is truly the best place for us all, but will we trust Him in the waiting? Hear how Ashley and her husband had to do that as they patiently waited for God to give them their two babies, who were born over a decade a part.Interested in sharing your story on the podcast? Click here!Want to connect with us? Have a question?Shoot us a DM at @surren...

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067 I The Significance of Choosing a Great Midwife...

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2024/12/02

The key to getting through a long early labor is distraction and rest! Unfortunately, Rachel, along with most first time moms, was too excited to do either of these things, and her focus on her already long labor made it feel like it was lasting an eternity. Thankfully she learned a thing or two between her two births, and her second experience was much swifter and more empowering, even though it was just as intense. Our focus makes a world of a difference in our labors, as well as where our ...

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066 I God Gives Us the Strength to Do Hard Things...

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2024/11/25

Jaylynn was dealt some hard cards in this broken world, but her faith is in God and she knows how the story ends. As she planned her first birth, a home birth, those plans came crashing down when she was diagnosed with severe pre-eclampsia and had to immediately be induced at the hospital, with a two week NICU stay for her son. Then, when she gets a beautiful birth for her second, she had to say goodbye to him all too soon to be reunited with him again one day in Heaven. Finally, as she’s exp...

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