Have you considered the value of laboring alone for a while, delaying waking up your sleeping husband or alerting your midwife to your labor patterns? Here's why it might be worth doing.

Preparing for home birth (with or without a midwife)? Here's how I can help:

• FREE ⁠Faith-Filled Home Birth Challenge⁠

• Courses (so many!)

• ⁠Holy Wild Birth Podcast⁠, co-hosted with Lauren Hall (longer, deeper episodes featuring birth stories and conversations)

• ⁠The Blog⁠

• Weekly email ⁠Newsletter⁠

• ⁠Embrace Birth Journey⁠ -- comprehensive course library for holistic, faith-based pregnancy, home birth and postpartum

• ⁠Free Birth With God⁠ mini-course

• Birth nerd ⁠merch⁠