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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!

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163: Trusting That God Sees The Bigger Picture...

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2026/10/05

Trusting the Lord in all areas of your life is a wise and peaceful way to live, but especially in the areas of pregnancy and childbirth. When Marcy and her husband first got pregnant, they would unfortunately miscarry and not get to raise that baby earth side-but God would use it for good, and it led them to the midwives who would go on to help them deliver their next baby. Her husband’s mantra during labor was prepare, prepare, prepare….while hers was to deny, deny, deny. This dynamic was qu...

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162: Birth and Faith Are Meant To Coexist...

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2026/09/28

When your mom had her baby three weeks early and your sister had her baby three weeks early, it must mean you’ll have your baby three weeks early too, right? Wrong! Jenna had to patiently wait for her baby girl to come when she was ready-but not before an OB would pressure her into a completely unnecessary induction for simply being 41 weeks pregnant, despite her and her baby’s impeccable health. Thankfully, Jenna knew to advocate for herself from all of the education she had from the researc...

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161: Entering The Promised Land of Motherhood (Home...

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2026/09/21

When your mom had three C-sections herself, you don’t picture choosing home birth for your own baby’s birth, but then you fall in love with your high school sweetheart who happens to come from a very crunchy family and was born at home himself, and so you change your ways. Rachel was blessed to have a smooth conception, pregnancy, and labor-although it was long, she had prepared herself for that, and had a wonderfully supportive team surrounding her-most importantly the Lord, and the hope tha...

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160: How A Change In Environment Can Affect Labor...

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2026/09/14

Would you describe suffering as a gift? Rachel is a woman of faith who understands that God has purpose in every part of our journeys. While her and her husband had to go through many trials and lots of waiting in order to hold their precious baby girl in their arms, she would tell you it was more than worth it! Listen to her epic journey today as she walks us through infertility, miscarriage, an MS diagnosis, and one heck of a birth story and postpartum! As her doula, I experienced a few “fi...

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159: Rejecting The Enemy's Lies About Birth (Home...

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2026/09/07

Growing up Patricia said she would never get married and never have children. Living in the secular world she had bought into the enemy’s lies that childbirth was scary, that children were a burden, that they would hold you back, cost a lot of money and take up all of your time. But the Lord had a plan for her life that would not be derailed. After re-committing her life to Jesus and getting plugged in at a local church with a deep, Christian community, she could hear God speaking to her thro...

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158: When Postpartum Is Harder Than Giving Birth...

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2026/08/31

As a first time mom, Mackenzie’s pregnancy and labor were relatively smooth. A long early labor, yes, and a later gestation, but a quick active labor and a very quick pushing stage, although that part was forced upon her. For Makenzie and John, pregnancy and labor would be the easy part. It was postpartum that things would get hard. After getting home from a hospital transfer for meconium aspiration, they thought the postpartum drama was over, but unfortunately, it was just getting started. L...

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68:32

157: God Will Lead You Through The Tough Stuff - Part...

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2026/08/24

After a very poor experience at the hospital with her first baby, Rebekah would be choosing home birth from this point on. She did not want a repeat of her first birth and especially her first postpartum. Thankfully, she was able to find a home birth midwife in her area that she jived with and would go on to have two beautiful home births, while also having to address the anxieties from her first birth head on when it came to pushing! But what did she learn? God will meet you where you are. G...

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156: The Birth Was Painless But The Experience Wasn't...

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2026/08/17

When your husband is a paramedic and you watch lots of birth videos, what else is there to need going into your first unmedicated birth, and a hospital birth at that? Well, while Rebekah’s first labor went quickly and smoothly, the actual delivery did not. A supposed shoulder dystocia and then a quick cutting of the cord and whisking away of her baby would leave her traumatized and completely alone. If that wasn’t enough, she would practically be held hostage at the hospital for the next seve...

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155: Miscarriage Support Is a Lost Art, But It...

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2026/08/10

Have you ever experienced a miscarriage or know somebody who has? What do you do? What practical support options are out there? Today, we talk about just that! Unfortunately, in this day and age, miscarriage is a common occurrence, over 1 in 4 pregnancies result in miscarriage but what do you do when that happens, whether it’s yourself or somebody you know? How can you prepare for it physically, tangibly, practically, and spiritually? How can you honor the life of your baby and let them be pu...

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154: God's Will For Your Birth Can Look Different...

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2026/08/03

When your mom has had six natural births, five of which were in the hospital, and one home birth that wasn’t actually a great experience, it’s only natural that you’d want to have a hospital birth. SO when Miriam got pregnant with her first, that’s just what she chose, and thankfully, this specific hospital was actually quite accommodating for a hospital and she had a great midwife team and amazing volunteer doula! As her births continued and as she became more and more educated, she realized...

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153: Navigating the Surprises of Pregnancy with Grace...

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2026/07/27

Kelli was anticipating a beautiful, unmedicated hospital birth for her first, but an assumed diagnosis of cholestasis would have her being induced on pitocin and change all of her plans. Next time she was anticipating the same outcome, but thankfully had the birth she had planned the first time, but realized that she no longer wanted to fight the battle of trying to have a natural birth in the hospital and being questioned about every decision she was making. So when she got pregnant with twi...

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152: Your Faith Gets Formed In The Critical Moments...

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2026/07/20

A lot of second time moms think they have a longer labor ahead of them than they actually do…and it was no different for Scotlyn when her labor zoomed by and nobody made it to the labor and delivery room before her daughter was born, not even Scotlyn! But a dream birth doesn’t always make for a dream postpartum. When Scotlyn’s daughter, Winnie, was two weeks old, her and her husband would face a challenge harder than birth itself as their daughter was rushed to the ER with vitals that wouldn’...

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151: Prepping For Birth Physically and Spiritually...

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2026/07/13

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 and a very smooth pregnancy. She also did her part in preparation for labor through classes, books, podcasts, and hiring a doula. All of this was so beneficial to Susan and her husband Brian, and although she knew God’s will was better than her own and sh...

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150: DOULA DIARIES -- 3rd Edition (Crazy Birth...

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2026/07/06

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 are completely unnecessary, and so many of them can be prevented by proper birth education! All this and more on today's episode of Doula Diaries! Send us Fan Mail Support the show Has our podcast made an impact in your life? Please consider supporting...

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149: Discovering That Motherhood Is Ministry (Home...

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2026/06/29

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 David and Tesia share the story of their first birth, which is honestly so much more than a birth story. It’s a story of their faith and God’s faithfulness, of their weakness and His strength, of their frustration and His peace, from conception to pregn...

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148: How Your Faith Can Reduce Stress In Pregnancy...

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2026/06/22

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 wives out there, instead he was already made aware of the risks to mom and baby that come along with choosing a hospital birth, so much so that whenever any doubts would arise in her mind, he was the one to remind her that everything was going to work o...

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147: The Joys and Difficulties of Becoming A Mom...

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2026/06/15

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 prenatal, she met a doctor who liked to focus on the fact that C-Sections=Safety. Not something a mom planning a vaginal birth needs to be focusing on. Then, when she went into labor, out of all of the providers at her office, who happened to be on call...

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146: The Hidden Consequences of Trying To Control...

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2026/06/08

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, that we could trust Him to know and do what’s best. Inara finally had this revelation after her fourth birth, after a long and complicated fertility journey, and after several pregnancies and losses that left her incredibly sick. While she’s now found con...

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145: Defeating Anxiety in Pregnancy, Postpartum, and...

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2026/06/01

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 get through it? And postpartum-what happens when your hormones are all over the place, it’s nighttime, you’re alone, and awake AGAIN with a crying newborn who’s struggling to breastfeed? What do you do? Who do you turn to in order to battle this feeling...

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144: Make Sure You Trust Your Birth Care Provider...

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2026/05/25

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 with somebody else's and that none of those things are true! Would you be able to fully trust the medical establishment after that? At 36 weeks into her first pregnancy, Aileeah decided to switch to a home birth, a place where she knew she could relax ...

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