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00:00 - Why picturing birth as pure force is so intimidating
01:01 - A lesson straight from inside the Holy Confident Birth Course
01:55 - The course is open again, plus the Peaceful Postpartum mini course
03:48 - Birth is a whole person event
04:26 - The force-only model of the passage, the passenger and the power
05:49 - Body and soul together, like a juicy peach
07:02 - Why birth starts in your brain
07:55 - Your uterus, your cervix and a pelvis designed to move
08:58 - The feedback loop that keeps labor going
09:37 - How fear, safety and your peace with God show up in labor
11:09 - Recap and what’s coming in part three
12:58 - What’s inside the Holy Confident Birth Course
Medical Advice Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only and is not medical advice. It is not a substitute for care from your physician, midwife, or qualified healthcare provider. I recommend consulting your provider regarding your specific medical situation and before making decisions about your care.
🕊 LAUNCH SPECIAL: $247 + the FREE Peaceful Postpartum Mini Course through 10/26
Inside you will find:
✨ Download The FREE Speedy Birth Blueprint Here
🧺 Shop my favorite birth + postpartum products on Amazon
00:00 - Welcome to the free four-part mini birth course
01:40 - The course reopening and launch bonuses
03:32 - Meet Eve: nurse, doula and childbirth educator
07:53 - The tension between natural birth and a Catholic care team
12:20 - Why birth matters so much to God
15:20 - The temptation to control, from Eve in the garden
17:43 - Mary’s surrender and the Nativity that didn’t go to plan
20:40 - Surrender is not passivity: stewarding your birth
22:27 - Your husband’s role and Joseph in the stable
23:32 - Fear, control and over-medicalized birth
26:45 - Pathological vs physiological views of birth
29:46 - Seeing God’s fingerprints in the design of birth
Medical Advice Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only and is not medical advice. It is not a substitute for care from your physician, midwife, or qualified healthcare provider. I recommend consulting your provider regarding your specific medical situation and before making decisions about your care.
✨ Download The FREE Speedy Birth Blueprint Here
🕊 The DIY Doula Guide For Catholic Moms
🕊Join The Waitlist for the Holy Confident Birth Course (Relaunching with Bonuses and Updates October 19th!)
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00:00 - Meet Shelby: doula, wife and mom of two under three
02:02 - Her first birth and the shoulder dystocia at home
07:01 - What that first birth taught her about surrender
08:51 - Nutrition, fertility and getting pregnant again
15:36 - Early labor at 38 weeks that she refused to believe
26:26 - The self-exam that changed everything
29:46 - Ten minutes of pushing and catching her own baby
34:54 - The postpartum that was harder than the first
37:18 - Letting go of social media as a mom
45:40 - Her advice for moms expecting a second baby
Medical Advice Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only and is not medical advice. It is not a substitute for care from your physician, midwife, or qualified healthcare provider. I recommend consulting your provider regarding your specific medical situation and before making decisions about your care.
✨ Download The FREE Speedy Birth Blueprint Here
🕊 The DIY Doula Guide For Catholic Moms
🕊Join The Waitlist for the Holy Confident Birth Course (Relaunching with Bonuses and Updates October 19th!)
🧺 Shop my favorite birth + postpartum products on Amazon
Resources:
Shop Restorative Roots (Code HCB10 for $10 off your first order)
Free guides mentioned in the episode
Eric Stein runs Restorative Roots with his wife, Holly, making nourishing postpartum meals that now ship all over the country. The business started after a rough first postpartum and a far better second one, when they stocked the freezer with 60 warm, easy-to-digest meals. Eric is a dad of three, with one birth center birth and two home births, and he has spent almost five years in the birth world listening to other families' stories. As a labor and delivery nurse, I have watched so many dads get pushed to the side, so I wanted to ask Eric what it actually looks like for a husband to protect, serve and lead during birth and postpartum. We also talk about masculine and feminine complementarity and why men need brotherhood.
00:00 - How food as medicine led to Restorative Roots
04:43 - From vegan to ancestral eating
07:23 - Why the masculine role matters in birth and postpartum
11:22 - How a husband can step up during postpartum
14:37 - Preparing for postpartum with a checklist, meal prep and prayer
17:49 - Letting go of fear before birth
20:30 - Advocating in the birth room and building a team you trust
23:41 - Supporting your wife when you have to go back to work
27:28 - Why fathers feel unprepared and the power of men's groups
32:35 - What to say to a husband who feels sidelined, plus final advice
Medical Advice Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only and is not medical advice. It is not a substitute for care from your physician, midwife, or qualified healthcare provider. I recommend consulting your provider regarding your specific medical situation and before making decisions about your care.
✨ Download The FREE Speedy Birth Blueprint Here
🕊 Join The Waitlist for the Holy Confident Birth Course (Relaunching with Bonuses and Updates October 19th!)
🕊 The DIY Doula Guide For Catholic Moms
🧺 Shop my favorite birth + postpartum products on Amazon
Getting an epidural does not make your birth less holy. We walk through where interventions actually belong and how to tell when the scale has tipped from harm toward help, what an epidural is physically doing in your body, and why exhaustion and a pelvic floor that will not release are legitimate reasons to say yes to an epidural.
Medical Advice Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only and is not medical advice. It is not a substitute for care from your physician, midwife, or qualified healthcare provider. I recommend consulting your provider regarding your specific medical situation and before making decisions about your care.
✨ Download The FREE Speedy Birth Blueprint Here
🕊 Join The Holy Confident Birth Course
Inside you will find:
- Instant access to 10+ hours of video lessons
- 150+ Page E-Book packed with practical resources to help you through pregnancy & birth
- Taught with a uniquely Catholic perspective on the birth process, and a holistic approach while including evidence-based and medically accurate information.
- Lessons from other birth professionals including a functional nutritionist, a webster certified chiropractor, and a midwife
- *NEW* Access to a private facebook community of other Catholic women preparing for God-centered, natural births
🕊 The DIY Doula Guide For Catholic Moms
🧺 Shop my favorite birth + postpartum products on Amazon
00:00 - Why your provider matters more than your birth plan
02:53 - The real job of a birth plan is to start a conversation
05:16 - The photographer and the mood board: matching your provider to your plan
09:35 - How most women pick a provider by accident
12:00 - Practice patterns: the habits your provider brings into the room
14:15 - Hospital policy versus your provider's habits
16:11 - The call group and the stranger who might attend your birth
18:43 - Your homework: questions to ask the office this week
21:14 - What is still yours if you cannot switch, and why switching late is worth it
24:00 - The Holy Confident Birth Course and the one-week discount
27:07 - Three things to do this week and a reminder that God did not mess up
Medical Advice Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only and is not medical advice. It is not a substitute for care from your physician, midwife, or qualified healthcare provider. I recommend consulting your provider regarding your specific medical situation and before making decisions about your care.
✨ Download The FREE Speedy Birth Blueprint Here
🕊 The DIY Doula Guide For Catholic Moms
🕊 Join The Holy Confident Birth Course
Inside you will find:
- Instant access to 10+ hours of video lessons
- 150+ Page E-Book packed with practical resources to help you through pregnancy & birth
- Taught with a uniquely Catholic perspective on the birth process, and a holistic approach while including evidence-based and medically accurate information.
- Lessons from other birth professionals including a functional nutritionist, a webster certified chiropractor, and a midwife
- *NEW* A live monthly Q+A with Eve to address your personal questions!!
- *NEW* Access to a private facebook community of other Catholic women preparing for God-centered, natural births
🧺 Shop my favorite birth + postpartum products on Amazon
Marian shares her second birth story, from a 32-hour hospital birth with her first baby to a peaceful, prayer-filled home birth with her daughter. She talks about choosing her midwife, preparing spiritually, laboring in the middle of the night, experiencing the power of water, and learning to surrender to God throughout birth.
She also opens up about postpartum recovery, adjusting to life with two children, and the biggest lesson she took away from this birth: birth doesn’t have to be complicated.
00:00 — From a difficult first birth to planning a home birth
05:00 — Finding out she was pregnant again
09:00 — Choosing her home birth midwife
14:00 — Preparing spiritually for birth
17:00 — Labor begins in the middle of the night
19:00 — Her water breaks and labor intensifies
21:00 — The birth pool, prayer, and peaceful labor
23:00 — Fear, surrender, and trusting her birth team
26:00 — Pushing and working with her body
27:00 — Experiencing a surprisingly pain-free birth
30:00 — Meeting her daughter
31:00 — Postpartum recovery, motherhood, and the lessons she learned
Medical Advice Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only and is not medical advice. It is not a substitute for care from your physician, midwife, or qualified healthcare provider. I recommend consulting your provider regarding your specific medical situation and before making decisions about your care.
✨ Download The FREE Speedy Birth Blueprint Here
🕊 The DIY Doula Guide For Catholic Moms
🕊 Join The Holy Confident Birth Course
Inside you will find:
- Instant access to 10+ hours of video lessons
- 150+ Page E-Book packed with practical resources to help you through pregnancy & birth
- Taught with a uniquely Catholic perspective on the birth process, and a holistic approach while including evidence-based and medically accurate information.
- Lessons from other birth professionals including a functional nutritionist, a webster certified chiropractor, and a midwife
- *NEW* A live monthly Q+A with Eve to address your personal questions!!
- *NEW* Access to a private facebook community of other Catholic women preparing for God-centered, natural births
🧺 Shop my favorite birth + postpartum products on Amazon
Dilation is only one piece of the labor progress puzzle. In this episode, we’re breaking down the other important changes happening during labor, including effacement, cervical softening, and baby’s station.
You’ll learn why you can be “only” two or four centimeters and still be making significant progress, how baby’s descent plays a role in dilation, and why cervical exams are really just a snapshot of what’s happening in that moment.
Most importantly, you’ll walk away with a better understanding of what’s actually happening in your body so you can feel more confident when your labor doesn’t follow the textbook timeline.
00:00 — Why dilation isn’t the whole picture
02:00 — The “only two centimeters” story
04:00 — Effacement: thinning and shortening
06:00 — Cervical softening and prostaglandins
08:30 — Why baby’s station matters
10:30 — How baby helps the cervix dilate
11:30 — Birth is more than 0–10 centimeters
12:00 — What to ask instead of “How many centimeters?”
13:00 — Why you may want to skip the dilation number
Medical Advice Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only and is not medical advice. It is not a substitute for care from your physician, midwife, or qualified healthcare provider. I recommend consulting your provider regarding your specific medical situation and before making decisions about your care.
✨ Download The FREE Speedy Birth Blueprint Here
🕊 The DIY Doula Guide For Catholic Moms
🕊 Join The Holy Confident Birth Course
Inside you will find:
- Instant access to 10+ hours of video lessons
- 150+ Page E-Book packed with practical resources to help you through pregnancy & birth
- Taught with a uniquely Catholic perspective on the birth process, and a holistic approach while including evidence-based and medically accurate information.
- Lessons from other birth professionals including a functional nutritionist, a webster certified chiropractor, and a midwife
- *NEW* A live monthly Q+A with Eve to address your personal questions!!
- *NEW* Access to a private facebook community of other Catholic women preparing for God-centered, natural births
🧺 Shop my favorite birth + postpartum products on Amazon
Brooke Rozmenoski (aka Brooke Rozzie) is a Christian Counselor, Functional Nutrition Coach and the founder of Faithfully Nourished. As a wife and mother of two, Brooke understands firsthand the challenges women face in tending to their health while navigating the demands of marriage, motherhood, and ministry.
Through her podcast, coaching programs, retreats, and practice, she has helped hundreds of women uncover the emotional, spiritual, and relational roots of their physical symptoms—restoring God’s order to their health, homes, and hearts. Brooke combines counseling, functional nutrition, nervous system support, and biblical truth to guide women out of survival mode and into Spirit-led, sustainable wholeness—so they can stop “doing healing” and start living from a place of Holy Spirit-led freedom.
IG: @brookerozzie
Brooke's Inquiry Link: https://l.bttr.to/U3LMb
00:00 — Brooke’s Story & Functional Nutrition
01:40 — Hormones, Cycles & Fertility
03:30 — When “Normal” Labs Don’t Mean You Feel Well
07:15 — Preconception Nutrition
10:30 — The Postpartum Window
12:15 — The PFFP Nutrition Framework
14:40 — Pregnancy Symptoms to Pay Attention To
16:45 — The Mother-Baby Connection
18:45 — Postpartum Anxiety & Nervous System Regulation
22:30 — Minerals, Adaptogens & Adrenal Support
25:45 — Faith, Motherhood & Caring for Your Body
28:15 — 3 Simple Steps for the Depleted Mom
29:45 — Knowing Your Story & Motherhood
31:00 — Connect With Brooke
Medical Advice Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only and is not medical advice. It is not a substitute for care from your physician, midwife, or qualified healthcare provider. I recommend consulting your provider regarding your specific medical situation and before making decisions about your care.
✨ Download The FREE Speedy Birth Blueprint Here
🕊 The DIY Doula Guide For Catholic Moms
🕊 Join The Holy Confident Birth Course
Inside you will find:
- Instant access to 10+ hours of video lessons
- 150+ Page E-Book packed with practical resources to help you through pregnancy & birth
- Taught with a uniquely Catholic perspective on the birth process, and a holistic approach while including evidence-based and medically accurate information.
- Lessons from other birth professionals including a functional nutritionist, a webster certified chiropractor, and a midwife
- *NEW* A live monthly Q+A with Eve to address your personal questions!!
- *NEW* Access to a private facebook community of other Catholic women preparing for God-centered, natural births
🧺 Shop my favorite birth + postpartum products on Amazon
Briana Berger shares the very different stories of her first two births—and the profound spiritual transformation that happened between them.
Her first birth was an unmedicated birth center birth that left her feeling overwhelmed, frightened, and completely unprepared for the intensity of labor. In the years that followed, Brianna began to see birth through a deeper Catholic lens, discovering the connection between the suffering of childbirth, Christ's Passion, and the joy of new life.
With her second baby, she approached birth with a completely different mindset: not trying to control the experience, but learning to trust God with whatever He allowed. Her second birth became a beautiful experience of surrender, prayer, and joy.
00:00 Meet Briana + her first thoughts on birth
03:30 Choosing a birth center and preparing for her first birth
08:00 First labor: the beginning of an intense experience
11:00 “A woman’s finest hour” + arriving at the birth center
15:00 Learning to cope with the intensity of labor
18:00 Her son’s birth + processing the experience afterward
22:00 Informed consent and what she discovered after birth
25:00 Processing a difficult birth + the beginning of spiritual growth
28:00 Discovering the spiritual meaning of birth
32:00 Preparing for her second birth with a new perspective
36:00 Fear, Made for This, and learning to trust God
43:00 Second labor: calm, surrender, and a completely different experience
46:00 “Oh, Jesus” — turning to God in the hardest moment
47:00 Catching her daughter + the joy of a beautiful birth
49:00 What changed between her first and second births
51:00 Trusting God with the unpredictability of birth
52:00 Advice for first-time Catholic moms
53:00 Bringing yourself into God’s presence during birth
Medical Advice Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only and is not medical advice. It is not a substitute for care from your physician, midwife, or qualified healthcare provider. I recommend consulting your provider regarding your specific medical situation and before making decisions about your care.
From the publisher's feed
Do you dream of a natural birth but secretly wonder if you'll actually be able to do it when labor gets intense?
Do you believe God designed your body for birth, yet struggle to…
On this podcast you’ll learn how to:
✅ Understand the brain’s powerful role in labor and birth
✅ Overcome fear and cultivate confidence through truth and preparation
✅ Navigate interventions and the medical system wisely and protect the birth you desire
✅ Use labor positions, movement, and mindset to work with your body
✅ Recover and thrive postpartum through nourishment and rest
✅ Embrace motherhood through an intentional, natural, and authentically Catholic perspective
If you are ready to…
Feel EQUIPPED to knock your birth out of the park,
EMPOWERED in your ability to make confident, informed decisions,
and EXCITED for the Spirit-led, fear-free birth you’ve been dreaming of…
Then make yourself a coffee (or a red-raspberry leaf tea) and cozy up. Let’s jump in!
*Disclaimer: this podcast is for educational purposes only and is not personal medical advice.
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