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God is constantly speaking. But are we listening? Are we asking? Bethany definitely is! When Matt and Bethany became pregnant with their fifth child, the Lord’s will was what was most important. He would use this pregnancy and labor to take Bethany through a new season of growth, to a deeper level of faith, and His presence would be undeniable through it all. He would speak to her in dreams and in prayer and make sure that although His plans may seem outlandish to unbelievers, Bethany knew that God knew exactly what He was doing, and that He was in control and that she could trust Him. Get ready to have your hearts stirred and your faith strengthened! Hear more from Bethany on her podcast, Basket Full of Bread! Send us Fan Mail Support the show Has our podcast made an impact in your life? Please consider supporting us so we can continue! Donate: SUPPORT PAGE! • Take the SURRENDERED BIRTH ONLINE COURSE! • Perfect Supplements Beef Liver and Acerola Cherry-use code SURRENDERED10 at checkout for an additional 10% off! • Check out my MUST-HAVE PRODUCTS FREEBIE for pregnancy, birth, and postpartum! Click here to share your story on the podcast! Want to connect? Have a question? Shoot us a DM at @surrenderedbirthservices on Instagram, and give us a follow while you're there! For more information: • Website: www.surrenderedbirthservices.com • Instagram: www.instagram.com/surrenderedbirthservices

From an early age, Abigail knew that she did not want to have her babies in the hospital, so when her and her husband became pregnant, she sought out a birth center and was delighted with her care. Unfortunately, a pre-eclampsia diagnosis at 37 weeks would have her being transferred to the hospital immediately for an induction, and upon delivery, she’d also gain an IUGR diagnosis. For her next pregnancy, she was determined to eliminate the possibility of pre-eclampsia through diet, exercise and prayer, and this time instead of transferring from a birth center to the hospital, she transferred from a planned hospital birth to a home birth…and an unassisted one at that! But as she had prayed for God to ensure that all of the right people who needed to be at her birth were there, it turns out her and her husband were those right people! "REDEEMING CHILDBIRTH" BOOK Send us Fan Mail Support the show Has our podcast made an impact in your life? Please consider supporting us so we can continue! Donate: SUPPORT PAGE! • Take the SURRENDERED BIRTH ONLINE COURSE! • Perfect Supplements Beef Liver and Acerola Cherry-use code SURRENDERED10 at checkout for an additional 10% off! • Check out my MUST-HAVE PRODUCTS FREEBIE for pregnancy, birth, and postpartum! Click here to share your story on the podcast! Want to connect? Have a question? Shoot us a DM at @surrenderedbirthservices on Instagram, and give us a follow while you're there! For more information: • Website: www.surrenderedbirthservices.com • Instagram: www.instagram.com/surrenderedbirthservices

Trusting the Lord in all areas of your life is a wise and peaceful way to live, but especially in the areas of pregnancy and childbirth. When Marcy and her husband first got pregnant, they would unfortunately miscarry and not get to raise that baby earth side-but God would use it for good, and it led them to the midwives who would go on to help them deliver their next baby. Her husband’s mantra during labor was prepare, prepare, prepare….while hers was to deny, deny, deny. This dynamic was quite comical but it all balanced out and in the end they had a beautiful water birth at home.  Send us Fan Mail Support the show Has our podcast made an impact in your life? Please consider supporting us so we can continue! Donate: SUPPORT PAGE! • Take the SURRENDERED BIRTH ONLINE COURSE! • Perfect Supplements Beef Liver and Acerola Cherry-use code SURRENDERED10 at checkout for an additional 10% off! • Check out my MUST-HAVE PRODUCTS FREEBIE for pregnancy, birth, and postpartum! Click here to share your story on the podcast! Want to connect? Have a question? Shoot us a DM at @surrenderedbirthservices on Instagram, and give us a follow while you're there! For more information: • Website: www.surrenderedbirthservices.com • Instagram: www.instagram.com/surrenderedbirthservices

When your mom had her baby three weeks early and your sister had her baby three weeks early, it must mean you’ll have your baby three weeks early too, right? Wrong! Jenna had to patiently wait for her baby girl to come when she was ready-but not before an OB would pressure her into a completely unnecessary induction for simply being 41 weeks pregnant, despite her and her baby’s impeccable health. Thankfully, Jenna knew to advocate for herself from all of the education she had from the research and preparation she had done, and avoided that scheduled medical induction. While things would go relatively smoothly during labor as she pressed into the Lord with each contraction, she realized the advocating didn’t stop after the baby comes out, it’s just getting started, and now she’s already planning how she’ll do things differently next time-starting with a home birth! Send us Fan Mail Support the show Has our podcast made an impact in your life? Please consider supporting us so we can continue! Donate: SUPPORT PAGE! • Take the SURRENDERED BIRTH ONLINE COURSE! • Perfect Supplements Beef Liver and Acerola Cherry-use code SURRENDERED10 at checkout for an additional 10% off! • Check out my MUST-HAVE PRODUCTS FREEBIE for pregnancy, birth, and postpartum! Click here to share your story on the podcast! Want to connect? Have a question? Shoot us a DM at @surrenderedbirthservices on Instagram, and give us a follow while you're there! For more information: • Website: www.surrenderedbirthservices.com • Instagram: www.instagram.com/surrenderedbirthservices

When your mom had three C-sections herself, you don’t picture choosing home birth for your own baby’s birth, but then you fall in love with your high school sweetheart who happens to come from a very crunchy family and was born at home himself, and so you change your ways. Rachel was blessed to have a smooth conception, pregnancy, and labor-although it was long, she had prepared herself for that, and had a wonderfully supportive team surrounding her-most importantly the Lord, and the hope that He would give her throughout this entire journey, something she’d need to cling to during postpartum when postpartum depression would attempt to leave her feeling hopeless, but our God is a God of hope and joy. And that’s just what Rachel’s baby girl has brought her! Send us Fan Mail Support the show Has our podcast made an impact in your life? Please consider supporting us so we can continue! Donate: SUPPORT PAGE! • Take the SURRENDERED BIRTH ONLINE COURSE! • Perfect Supplements Beef Liver and Acerola Cherry-use code SURRENDERED10 at checkout for an additional 10% off! • Check out my MUST-HAVE PRODUCTS FREEBIE for pregnancy, birth, and postpartum! Click here to share your story on the podcast! Want to connect? Have a question? Shoot us a DM at @surrenderedbirthservices on Instagram, and give us a follow while you're there! For more information: • Website: www.surrenderedbirthservices.com • Instagram: www.instagram.com/surrenderedbirthservices

Would you describe suffering as a gift? Rachel is a woman of faith who understands that God has purpose in every part of our journeys. While her and her husband had to go through many trials and lots of waiting in order to hold their precious baby girl in their arms, she would tell you it was more than worth it! Listen to her epic journey today as she walks us through infertility, miscarriage, an MS diagnosis, and one heck of a birth story and postpartum! As her doula, I experienced a few “firsts” myself in her story. Some lessons learned…don’t plan to have your baby at a birth center if you’re not willing to unnecessarily induce yourself by 42 weeks, always make sure the communication between the midwife you’re leaving and the midwife you’re going to is smooth, always check your doula bag to make sure your kids didn't unpack it before you run out the door for a birth, and sometimes using forceps is the best option you have! Send us Fan Mail Support the show Has our podcast made an impact in your life? Please consider supporting us so we can continue! Donate: SUPPORT PAGE! • Take the SURRENDERED BIRTH ONLINE COURSE! • Perfect Supplements Beef Liver and Acerola Cherry-use code SURRENDERED10 at checkout for an additional 10% off! • Check out my MUST-HAVE PRODUCTS FREEBIE for pregnancy, birth, and postpartum! Click here to share your story on the podcast! Want to connect? Have a question? Shoot us a DM at @surrenderedbirthservices on Instagram, and give us a follow while you're there! For more information: • Website: www.surrenderedbirthservices.com • Instagram: www.instagram.com/surrenderedbirthservices

Growing up Patricia said she would never get married and never have children. Living in the secular world she had bought into the enemy’s lies that childbirth was scary, that children were a burden, that they would hold you back, cost a lot of money and take up all of your time. But the Lord had a plan for her life that would not be derailed. After re-committing her life to Jesus and getting plugged in at a local church with a deep, Christian community, she could hear God speaking to her through His word, and her and her boyfriend decided to get married and have children. It didn’t take long for her to land on having a home birth, a decision which the Lord would continue to confirm throughout her pregnancy. And Patricia learned that childbirth wasn’t scary at all, in fact-that was the easiest part!  Send us Fan Mail Support the show Has our podcast made an impact in your life? Please consider supporting us so we can continue! Donate: SUPPORT PAGE! • Take the SURRENDERED BIRTH ONLINE COURSE! • Perfect Supplements Beef Liver and Acerola Cherry-use code SURRENDERED10 at checkout for an additional 10% off! • Check out my MUST-HAVE PRODUCTS FREEBIE for pregnancy, birth, and postpartum! Click here to share your story on the podcast! Want to connect? Have a question? Shoot us a DM at @surrenderedbirthservices on Instagram, and give us a follow while you're there! For more information: • Website: www.surrenderedbirthservices.com • Instagram: www.instagram.com/surrenderedbirthservices

As a first time mom, Mackenzie’s pregnancy and labor were relatively smooth. A long early labor, yes, and a later gestation, but a quick active labor and a very quick pushing stage, although that part was forced upon her. For Makenzie and John, pregnancy and labor would be the easy part. It was postpartum that things would get hard. After getting home from a hospital transfer for meconium aspiration, they thought the postpartum drama was over, but unfortunately, it was just getting started. Little did they know they’d be spending their next few days in the hospital, and unfortunately, completely unnecessarily! But God has purpose in everything in our lives, He’s faithful, and so is his supernatural peace that He gives us in the process! Send us Fan Mail Support the show Has our podcast made an impact in your life? Please consider supporting us so we can continue! Donate: SUPPORT PAGE! • Take the SURRENDERED BIRTH ONLINE COURSE! • Perfect Supplements Beef Liver and Acerola Cherry-use code SURRENDERED10 at checkout for an additional 10% off! • Check out my MUST-HAVE PRODUCTS FREEBIE for pregnancy, birth, and postpartum! Click here to share your story on the podcast! Want to connect? Have a question? Shoot us a DM at @surrenderedbirthservices on Instagram, and give us a follow while you're there! For more information: • Website: www.surrenderedbirthservices.com • Instagram: www.instagram.com/surrenderedbirthservices

After a very poor experience at the hospital with her first baby, Rebekah would be choosing home birth from this point on. She did not want a repeat of her first birth and especially her first postpartum. Thankfully, she was able to find a home birth midwife in her area that she jived with and would go on to have two beautiful home births, while also having to address the anxieties from her first birth head on when it came to pushing! But what did she learn? God will meet you where you are. God answers prayers! God is faithful, and He can be trusted, especially when it comes to birth!  Send us Fan Mail Support the show Has our podcast made an impact in your life? Please consider supporting us so we can continue! Donate: SUPPORT PAGE! • Take the SURRENDERED BIRTH ONLINE COURSE! • Perfect Supplements Beef Liver and Acerola Cherry-use code SURRENDERED10 at checkout for an additional 10% off! • Check out my MUST-HAVE PRODUCTS FREEBIE for pregnancy, birth, and postpartum! Click here to share your story on the podcast! Want to connect? Have a question? Shoot us a DM at @surrenderedbirthservices on Instagram, and give us a follow while you're there! For more information: • Website: www.surrenderedbirthservices.com • Instagram: www.instagram.com/surrenderedbirthservices

When your husband is a paramedic and you watch lots of birth videos, what else is there to need going into your first unmedicated birth, and a hospital birth at that? Well, while Rebekah’s first labor went quickly and smoothly, the actual delivery did not. A supposed shoulder dystocia and then a quick cutting of the cord and whisking away of her baby would leave her traumatized and completely alone. If that wasn’t enough, she would practically be held hostage at the hospital for the next several days with NICU policies and threats of rare and dangerous diseases her perfectly healthy baby did not have. All of this would feed directly into her postpartum experience (not to mention her deep second degree tear) leaving her anxious, fearful and altogether unwell. How could she go on to have another baby after all of that? Send us Fan Mail Support the show Has our podcast made an impact in your life? Please consider supporting us so we can continue! Donate: SUPPORT PAGE! • Take the SURRENDERED BIRTH ONLINE COURSE! • Perfect Supplements Beef Liver and Acerola Cherry-use code SURRENDERED10 at checkout for an additional 10% off! • Check out my MUST-HAVE PRODUCTS FREEBIE for pregnancy, birth, and postpartum! Click here to share your story on the podcast! Want to connect? Have a question? Shoot us a DM at @surrenderedbirthservices on Instagram, and give us a follow while you're there! For more information: • Website: www.surrenderedbirthservices.com • Instagram: www.instagram.com/surrenderedbirthservices

Have you ever experienced a miscarriage or know somebody who has? What do you do? What practical support options are out there? Today, we talk about just that! Unfortunately, in this day and age, miscarriage is a common occurrence, over 1 in 4 pregnancies result in miscarriage but what do you do when that happens, whether it’s yourself or somebody you know? How can you prepare for it physically, tangibly, practically, and spiritually? How can you honor the life of your baby and let them be put to rest with dignity? The Lord planted the idea for Precious Life Pod in Abigail's heart many years ago, and she can now offer women the spectrum of support they need when experiencing such a tragic loss.  Click here to visit the Precious Life Pod website! Click here for the PLP free memorial guide! Click here to share your miscarriage story 3 Click here to partner with Precious Life Pod! PLP on Instagram PLP on Facebook PLP on Youtube Send us Fan Mail Support the show Has our podcast made an impact in your life? Please consider supporting us so we can continue! Donate: SUPPORT PAGE! • Take the SURRENDERED BIRTH ONLINE COURSE! • Perfect Supplements Beef Liver and Acerola Cherry-use code SURRENDERED10 at checkout for an additional 10% off! • Check out my MUST-HAVE PRODUCTS FREEBIE for pregnancy, birth, and postpartum! Click here to share your story on the podcast! Want to connect? Have a question? Shoot us a DM at @surrenderedbirthservices on Instagram, and give us a follow while you're there! For more information: • Website: www.surrenderedbirthservices.com • Instagram: www.instagram.com/surrenderedbirthservices

When your mom has had six natural births, five of which were in the hospital, and one home birth that wasn’t actually a great experience, it’s only natural that you’d want to have a hospital birth. SO when Miriam got pregnant with her first, that’s just what she chose, and thankfully, this specific hospital was actually quite accommodating for a hospital and she had a great midwife team and amazing volunteer doula! As her births continued and as she became more and more educated, she realized her deep desire for a home birth, but she would have to surrender that desire to the Lord in order to experience His peace during her pregnancy and lean into His timing, not hers! Send us Fan Mail Support the show Has our podcast made an impact in your life? Please consider supporting us so we can continue! Donate: SUPPORT PAGE! • Take the SURRENDERED BIRTH ONLINE COURSE! • Perfect Supplements Beef Liver and Acerola Cherry-use code SURRENDERED10 at checkout for an additional 10% off! • Check out my MUST-HAVE PRODUCTS FREEBIE for pregnancy, birth, and postpartum! Click here to share your story on the podcast! Want to connect? Have a question? Shoot us a DM at @surrenderedbirthservices on Instagram, and give us a follow while you're there! For more information: • Website: www.surrenderedbirthservices.com • Instagram: www.instagram.com/surrenderedbirthservices

Kelli was anticipating a beautiful, unmedicated hospital birth for her first, but an assumed diagnosis of cholestasis would have her being induced on pitocin and change all of her plans. Next time she was anticipating the same outcome, but thankfully had the birth she had planned the first time, but realized that she no longer wanted to fight the battle of trying to have a natural birth in the hospital and being questioned about every decision she was making. So when she got pregnant with twins, she and her husband landed on having a home birth! This didn’t mean, however, that her anxiety around the delivery vanished, as God would have to teach her that surrendering her plans and giving Him control was the only way that would happen, regardless of where or how she gave birth! Send us Fan Mail Support the show Has our podcast made an impact in your life? Please consider supporting us so we can continue! Donate: SUPPORT PAGE! • Take the SURRENDERED BIRTH ONLINE COURSE! • Perfect Supplements Beef Liver and Acerola Cherry-use code SURRENDERED10 at checkout for an additional 10% off! • Check out my MUST-HAVE PRODUCTS FREEBIE for pregnancy, birth, and postpartum! Click here to share your story on the podcast! Want to connect? Have a question? Shoot us a DM at @surrenderedbirthservices on Instagram, and give us a follow while you're there! For more information: • Website: www.surrenderedbirthservices.com • Instagram: www.instagram.com/surrenderedbirthservices

A lot of second time moms think they have a longer labor ahead of them than they actually do…and it was no different for Scotlyn when her labor zoomed by and nobody made it to the labor and delivery room before her daughter was born, not even Scotlyn! But a dream birth doesn’t always make for a dream postpartum. When Scotlyn’s daughter, Winnie, was two weeks old, her and her husband would face a challenge harder than birth itself as their daughter was rushed to the ER with vitals that wouldn’t stabilize, and eventually taken to Duke’s pediatric cardiology department. Seeing her daughter in this state was incredibly difficult for Scotlyn, but God used this situation to bring Scotlyn closer together with her husband, closer together with God himself, and to allow her to never take the gift of life for granted. Send us Fan Mail Support the show Has our podcast made an impact in your life? Please consider supporting us so we can continue! Donate: SUPPORT PAGE! • Take the SURRENDERED BIRTH ONLINE COURSE! • Perfect Supplements Beef Liver and Acerola Cherry-use code SURRENDERED10 at checkout for an additional 10% off! • Check out my MUST-HAVE PRODUCTS FREEBIE for pregnancy, birth, and postpartum! Click here to share your story on the podcast! Want to connect? Have a question? Shoot us a DM at @surrenderedbirthservices on Instagram, and give us a follow while you're there! For more information: • Website: www.surrenderedbirthservices.com • Instagram: www.instagram.com/surrenderedbirthservices

When you’re planning on getting pregnant in advance, making sure your body is healthy and nourished can truly be to your advantage. That’s what Susan did before attempting to conceive her son, and the Lord blessed her with a quick conception and a very smooth pregnancy. She also did her part in preparation for labor through classes, books, podcasts, and hiring a doula. All of this was so beneficial to Susan and her husband Brian, and although she knew God’s will was better than her own and she held her plans with open hands of surrender, He still chose to bless her by answering many prayers during her relatively fast and natural labor as a first-time mother.  Send us Fan Mail Support the show Has our podcast made an impact in your life? Please consider supporting us so we can continue! Donate: SUPPORT PAGE! • Take the SURRENDERED BIRTH ONLINE COURSE! • Perfect Supplements Beef Liver and Acerola Cherry-use code SURRENDERED10 at checkout for an additional 10% off! • Check out my MUST-HAVE PRODUCTS FREEBIE for pregnancy, birth, and postpartum! Click here to share your story on the podcast! Want to connect? Have a question? Shoot us a DM at @surrenderedbirthservices on Instagram, and give us a follow while you're there! For more information: • Website: www.surrenderedbirthservices.com • Instagram: www.instagram.com/surrenderedbirthservices