You think you might be called into birth work... And you're also a mother of small children (another calling!). 

How can you live out both of those callings without either of them suffering? 

We hear women wrestling with this so often, reaching out in the DMs or making posts about it in Natural Christian Home Births. And we ourselves have wrestled through it.

In this characteristically meandering conversation we'll cover:

How do you know you are called?

Discerning your season

The role of your marriage/husband in birth work

Not sacrificing your family on an altar of birth work

Types of apprenticeships (numbers & speed & preceptor type)

Embracing a Head-down-power-through season

Knowing that "the work will always be there"

Expand our definition - what are you actually called to?

Why being older when you start birth work isn't such a bad thing

How our everyday life is training for this work

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Are You Called To Be A Midwife (blog post by Brooke)

Anointed Midwifery Unschool  - email Lauren to apply!

The Way Of The Hearth Mother (an episode from season 1)

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