HOLY WILD BIRTH : Training Christian Birthkeepers, Traditional Midwives in Faith-Based Birth Work

Holy wild births begin with holy wild conceptions. In this episode, Lauren and Brooke are diving into a holistic, multi-faceted conversation about what it looks like to nourish the soil of our wombs to be ready to grow new life. We apply the steps in The Way of the Hearthmother, too.

Whether you’re in the stage of life when you’re looking forward to a hopeful pregnancy, in between babies and looking to replenish, or simply want to have vibrant fertility because it’s a marker of good health overall, this episode is for you!

Mentioned in this episode:

• Find A Spring - Use Find A Spring to visit the best cold and hot springs

• Clean, Mineral Rich Restructured Water Options: Spring water, Spring Aqua, Live Pristine, Radiant Life, Pure Effects Filter

• Nourishing fertility course (Nourishing Fertility )

• Wild Pastures (but local farms are always best) — Wild Pastures | Pasture-Raised Beef, Pork, & Chicken at The Lowest Prices (referral link)

• Discover your mineral status by running an HTMA with Lauren

• Polyester pants on dogs study (Male & Female Fertility Optimization • Olivia Mitchell on Instagram: "Great post here from @beautiful_holistic "They put polyester pants on dogs—and their fertility vanished. Hormones crashed. Sperm count dropped. The female dogs? They couldn’t conceive. Once the polyester came off, everything returned to normal. Now look around. We’re living in tight, synthetic clothing every day—leggings, underwear, bras—wrapped in plastic 24/7. These fabrics leach hormone-disrupting chemicals and microplastics straight into our skin, right over our reproductive organs. It’s not just fashion—it’s fertility warfare." What are your thoughts on this?? 👇🏼" )
  Find the actual studies here & here

• Listen to “Living as Cyclical Beings” Podcast Episode

• Katie Bowman’s work on Nutritious Movement

  
  

  Email us to say hi: [email protected]

  Hang out with us in the Rooted In Eden PMA (off-facebook, private community)

  Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: Fill out the form

  Get on the waitlist for the next cohort of Hearthmother Journey

  Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: sisterbirth.com/podcast-guest

  From Lauren:

  Instagram

  Midwifery consults: Email  [email protected]

  From Brooke:

  Instagram

  Trust God, Trust Birth Workshop - a 5-part high-level roadmap to a confident home birth (pay what you can)

  Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop - a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox

  Embrace Birth Journey - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation (courses + private community)

In this episode with Anna, we get to hear about her early losses and then her first full-term pregnancy and unassisted home birth. 

Anna chose an unassisted birth and also a “wild” pregnancy, rooted in the firm belief that it is God alone who sustains her baby. Along the way she and her husband had to address fears, endure an unexpected more, and handle the disapproval of family members regarding their choices. But they knew deep down that free birth best fit Anna’s personality and relationship, so they persevered.

However, they did dip into the hospital setting more than once, utilizing it for help as needed. In one instance, it provided the reassurance they needed to continue, and in the other instance it created a lot of hurt. 

We hope you enjoy her story!

Birth Story Disclaimer

The choices, beliefs and opinions of the mamas sharing their stories are as individual as the storyteller herself and do not necessarily reflect the beliefs or recommended choices of Lauren and/or Brooke.

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• Email us to say hi: [email protected]

• Hang out with us in the Rooted In Eden PMA (off-facebook, private community)

• Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: Fill out the form

• Get on the waitlist for the next cohort of Hearthmother Journey

• Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: sisterbirth.com/podcast-guest

From Lauren:

• Instagram

• Midwifery consults: Email  [email protected]

From Brooke:

• Instagram

• Trust God, Trust Birth Workshop - a 5-part high-level roadmap to a confident home birth (pay what you can)

• Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop - a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox

• Embrace Birth Journey - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation (courses + private community)

Show Notes:

Adriana is a mom saved by grace in more ways than one. Saved out of witchcraft and unto the Lordship of Christ, she experienced a disappointing and difficult birth and postpartum with her first child. But as she grew, she experienced Jesus' gracious leadership and said YES to Him as it pertained to growing her family. You’ll hear about how that one YES resulted in myriad miracles within and around her and culminated in a sweet and redemptive unassisted birth and postpartum.

Mentioned in our "ad": hearthmotherjourney.com

You can find Adriana in the following places:

Birth Story Disclaimer

The choices, beliefs and opinions of the mamas sharing their stories are as individual as the storyteller herself and do not necessarily reflect the beliefs or recommended choices of Lauren and/or Brooke.

SHOW NOTES “FOOTER”

From Lauren:

From Brooke:

If you've been here any amount of time, you'll know that we are all about autonomy when it comes to pregnancy and birth work. The other side of the coin is responsibility. Sometimes both pregnant women and birth attendants can act irresponsibly with their autonomy, and that's what this episode is about.

Mentioned in this episode:

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(off-facebook, private community)

for the next cohort of

(we start in April, and again in October)

From Lauren:

From Brooke:

- a 5-part high-level roadmap to a confident home birth (pay what you can)

- a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox

- comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation (courses + private community)

Ever wish you could attend a home birth with Lauren and Brooke? Well, in this episode, you'll get a taste of that experience.

Full disclosure: we ourselves would also love to attend a birth together, but with states between us we haven't been able to.

We wrote up a hypothetical home birth scenario for a fictional character named Josephine, and in this episode, we walk you through how we'd apply the steps of The Way Of The Hearthmother from the moment we get called in, through the labor and birth, and the immediate postpartum.

Whether you're an aspiring or current birth attendant, or an expectant mama, we hope this gives you some practical and applicable tips for applying these beautiful principles to labor and birth.

Mentioned in this episode:

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From Lauren:

From Brooke:

Vince and Christina are an incredible example of a healthy marriage and an amazing union and teamwork during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.

Together these two Embrace Birth Journey grads and longtime podcast listeners tell their two Spirit-led home birth stories and then issue a [much-needed, fresh] invitation to the fathers among us.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Happy Homebirth Podcast episode where they first encountered Brooke
• The Business of Being Born documentary
• The Birth Partner by Penny Simkin
• Embrace Birth Journey (the course they took before their first birth)
• Calvary Chapel
• I'm So Blessed song
• Mother Blessings
• The First Week After Birth (workshop on postpartum)
• Prioritizing Postpartum on Holy Wild Birth
• Children's home birth book list (on Sister Birth's IG)
• Kangaroo care (the work of Nils Bergman)
• On The Rock Fatherhood (launching October 2024) - follow on IG for now or email [email protected]. Website will be live in August.

Birth Story Disclaimer

The choices, beliefs and opinions of the mamas sharing their stories are as individual as the storyteller herself and do not necessarily reflect the beliefs or recommended choices of Lauren and/or Brooke.

SHOW NOTES “FOOTER”

• Email us to say hi: [email protected]

• Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: Fill out the form

• Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: sisterbirth.com/podcast-guest

• Join Natural Christian Home Birth (Assisted and Unassisted) - a FB community

From Lauren:

• Instagram

• Midwifery consults: Email  [email protected]

From Brooke:

• Instagram

• Trust God, Trust Birth Workshop - a 5-part high-level roadmap to a confident home birth (pay what you can)

• Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop - a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox

Ok, so maybe you wouldn't expect to hear a conversation on Holy Wild Birth about the educational choices we've made for our kids. It doesn't seem immediately relevant, we know.

But it is. Because we got requests for this, we're going to passionately get on our soapboxes about the beauty of the unschooling lifestyle and it's benefits for children.

And then we're going to bring it home by tying it in with autonomous, undisturbed childbirth AND the pathways we take to becoming birth workers, too.

As promised, here are some of our favorite resources of learning more about the unschooling life.

To learn more about Hearthmother Journey and get on the waitlist for early enrollment in the October 2024 cohort, go here.

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From Lauren:

From Brooke:

In this episode we discuss finding the balance of showing up in a birth space with skill and confidence while also respecting the process enough to not disturb it with unnecessary interventions.

Its not always the easiest thing to navigate the use of our "handy dandy" tools/skill sets but we do believe that some times doing nothing is the very something that we ought to be doing, while also having the wisdom to reach in to our tool bag when the moment deems it necessary. We hope this discussion gives you some food for thought and practical advice on navigating this question.

Mentioned in the episode:

The Way of The Hearthmother Podcast Episode

Hearthmother Journey || Raising the Next Generation of Holy Wild Birthkeepers

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• Email us to say hi: ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠

• Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: ⁠⁠Fill out the form⁠⁠

• Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: ⁠⁠sisterbirth.com/podcast-guest⁠⁠

• Join ⁠⁠Natural Christian Home Birth (Assisted and Unassisted)⁠⁠ - a FB community
• Join Rooted in Eden PMA Might Networks Social Circle

From Lauren:

• ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠

• Midwifery consults: Email  [email protected]

From Brooke:

• ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠

• ⁠⁠Trust God, Trust Birth Workshop⁠⁠ - a 5-part high-level roadmap to a confident home birth (pay what you can)

• ⁠⁠Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop ⁠⁠- a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox

• ⁠⁠Embrace Birth Journey⁠⁠ - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation

Here we pick up from the previous episode with the grand finale of Willow & Wren's pregnancy and their birth story!

Hear about how Lauren chose her birth team, the challenges she faced physically at the end of pregnancy, and the wild ride of giving birth to them.

Remember, Embrace Birth Journey is available for $50 off using code TWINS at checkout now through Sunday 4/28 only.

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From Lauren:

From Brooke:

In this very special episode, our very own Lauren Hall shares a very personal story -- the story of the birth of her twin girls, Willow and Wren on Palm Sunday 2024.

She begins at the very beginning -- even before the beginning -- by telling the story of her son Levi, the born-too-soon twin of her daughter Leela, followed by the story of the Lord opening her heart to conceiving a baby... and then eventually learning there was actually TWO babies.

Throughout it all, you'll be blown away by all the highly personal and tenderly caring ways that the Lord worked in Lauren and her family's hearts and lives.

After you finish this episode, find Part 2, available tomorrow.

This episode was recorded while Brooke (who resides in Michigan) stayed a week with Lauren (who resides in Arkansas) during her postpartum time. We don't get to record together in person very often, and it was so great!

Also: as a fun bonus, now through April 28th ONLY Embrace Birth Journey -- Brooke's comprehensive Christian home birth preparation course library -- can be snagged for $50 using the code TWINS. Go to sisterbirth.com/journey for more info and to enroll with lifetime access.