Surrendered Birth Stories: Your Christian Birth Story Podcast

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Surrendered Birth Stories: Your Christian Birth Story Podcast episodes

October 13, 2025 112: Pregnancy Isn't Easy, But It's Worth Every Second (with Daniel and Alyssa Mead) [Difficult Pregnancy, Water Birth, First Time Mom]
Sometimes getting pregnant is easier than you expected, but then the pregnancy itself ends up being much more difficult. So learning to trust God and expect the unexpected is the name of the game! Alyssa and Daniel, while experiencing a difficult pregnancy with terrible nausea and vomiting, blood sugar issues, random rashes, the works, were pleasantly surprised when God redeemed the pregnancy through an early, relatively short, unmedicated water birth that they’d been praying for!
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51 min
October 06, 2025 111: The Beautiful Simplicity of A Planned Free Birth (with Katelyn Morgan) [Home Birth, Water Birth, Wild Pregnancy]
Wild pregnancy...free birth... Are you familiar with those terms? While Katelyn had a home birth for her first, she went one step further and planned a free birth for her second. Unlike some moms, she’s not married to the idea, and it’s not a hill for her to die on, and if at any point she felt the need for assistance, she would have some, but as she said, until God told her otherwise, a free birth it would be. The Lord again taught her a lesson of patience, but this time it was in a totally different way from her first!

Click Here to listen to Katelyn's first birth story!: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/surrendered-birth-stories/id1704560801?i=1000682104636
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43 min
September 29, 2025 110: Q&A with Kayla! [Preventing Water From Breaking, Early Ultrasounds, Preventing Tearing, Placenta Encapsulation, Episiotomies]
In today's Q&A episode, I'm going to answer several of the most commonly asked questions we've gotten as of recently. Tune in to find out how to keep your water from breaking too soon, how to prevent tearing during delivery, what episiotomies are and why you don't want one, what is placenta encapsulation and is it biblical, and the most asked question I've had as of late, why NOT to get an early ultrasound!
RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE:
"50 Human Studies in Utero" Book by Jim West: https://amzn.to/3KnGTQl
"Cause For Concern" Article on Early Ultrasounds: https://sarahbuckley.com/ultrasound-scans-cause-for-concern/
"Are Ultrasounds Safe?" Podcast from Your Birth, God's Way: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/if-mama-aint-healthy-aint-nobody-healthy-holistic-wellness/id1662245078?i=1000686173653

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50 min
September 22, 2025 109: God's Lessons and Blessings Are All Around You - Part 2 (with Balt and Miriam Peña) [Home Birth, Water Birth, Birth Redemption]
For her second birth, Miriam realized the amount of support she truly needed, and that instead of isolating herself, surrounding herself with like minded women was what she needed in order to be able to fully surrender to the Lord and lean on Him through the process of an unmedicated home birth. And what an incredible difference that would make in her postpartum and in her relationship with her husband as well. Tune in to find out exactly how it all went down!
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1 hr 50 min
September 15, 2025 108: When Self-Advocacy Is Your Only Option - Part 1 (with Balt and Miriam Peña) [Hyperemesis Gravidarum, Hospital Transfer, First Time Mom]
I’ve heard of many moms who plan an unmediated hospital birth for their first, and then some who even plan a birth center birth for their first, and then the handful of moms who plan a home birth for their first, but it’s rare I find somebody who plans a free birth for their first. While Miriam’s heart started in the right place, as the planned free birth inched closer, so did her pride. And she would be humbled. Her first birth was 49 hours long and not anything like she had planned, and while at one time she would have seen that as a disappointment and remained in a place of bitterness, the Lord has since revealed to her His purpose in it all.
Tune in next week for part 2 of their story!

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1 hr 36 min
September 08, 2025 107: The Contrast Between A Medicated Birth & A Natural Birth (with Emma Gowan) [Epidural Gone Wrong, Painless Childbirth, Prayer In Birth]
For your first birth, you end up having an elective induction that goes relatively smoothly with a very strong epidural and no major complications, other than a huge headache that was able to be resolved, albeit in a strange manner. Why then, would you choose to do it differently the next time? For Emma, she was blessed to be able to experience a pain-free natural birth with her second delivery when she chose to go to a different location for her birth. Listen today to hear why she chose to go natural for round two, and why she’d do it ten million more times!
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52 min
September 01, 2025 106: Supernatural Childbirth and Allowing God To Lead Your Birth (with Ariana Ganz) [Painless Childbirth, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Prayer In Birth]
The Lord is always speaking…if only we will listen. As Ariana took the journey of having five kids in eight years, God taught her so many incredibly valuable lessons. By the time she had her fourth, His voice was so clear and her trust in Him was so strong that He gave her the birth she never even knew she wanted. But He knew. Just because we’re obedient to God in one season though, doesn’t make it easy when He tells us to do something we didn’t expect in another. Hear how Ariana’s latest birth unfolded…and I’ll give you a hint, it wasn’t anything like her others!
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1 hr 16 min
August 25, 2025 105: Introducing...DOULA DIARIES! Volume 1 [C-Section, Hospital Birth, Unnecessary Episiotomy]
Listen in as I share three different stories from my time as a doula, starting all the way back to my first year over a decade ago. Today you’ll hear how I had the honor of being the eyes in the room for a blind mother as she met her baby for the first time, how I had two first time mom clients go into labor at the same time, and at the same hospital, but who ended up having two very different experiences. And lastly, how I had to literally save a mom from having a completely unnecessary episiotomy.
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41 min
August 18, 2025 104: Show Me Your Friends And I'll Show You Your Birth (with Christine Hollis) [Precipitous Labor, Hospital Birth, Birth Support]
Have you ever tried to do something alone, when you knew God designed you to do it in community? Christine was looking for like-minded friends during her third pregnancy that she could be in deep relationship with, and God answered her prayers. So much so, He even gave her a doula through one of those friends, and thank Him that He did, for she was the calming presence Christine would need during her overwhelmingly fast, precipitous birth. She’s already said after this experience she would definitely have a home birth next time!
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34 min
August 11, 2025 103: How The Misery of HG Turned Into A Testimony of God's Love (with Allie Bathalon) [Hyperemesis Gravidarum, Home Birth, Faith Crisis]
When you've been trying to conceive for months, and then you finally do, you think you’d be grateful for every part of pregnancy. But that’s rarely the case for a mom with Hyperemisis Gravardarium, also known as HG. When HG hit hard for Alexandria, not only did she lose a massive amount of weight in a short amount of time, but she lost her faith too. If God was a good God, why didn’t He take this thorn from her side? To top it all off as she prayed for a girl but she found out it was a boy, she felt forgotten and abandoned altogether. To her, and to many HG moms out there, how could this possibly be worth it? How could feeling like you were on your death bed every single day for months on end be worth it? Listen today to find out how God redeemed Allie’s story and reignited her faith through the beautiful home birth she had been dreaming of and praying for! And how this story was better than the one she would have written for herself.
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53 min

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