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Ep 350: A Homebirth After Hyperemesis Gravidarum

Have you ever come through something so hard that when it was finally over, the smallest ordinary thing felt like a miracle?   This week, we're speaking with Chelann Wa

Ep 349: Student Interview episode: Abby Johnson/Carley Overbey

Student Interview episode: Abby Johnson/Carley Overbey "I would have definitely panicked if I hadn't known." Links Replay — Why You've Read Everything and Still Don't

Ep 348: Homebirth After Cesarean Story: From a 29-Week Preemie to a Birth at Home

If your first birth went nothing like you'd planned, does that tell you anything about how your next one will go? Or is it possible that your first story doesn't get to w

Ep 347: Birth is magnetic

I want to tell you about two births.   Same woman. Same husband. Same house, more or less. And afterward, two completely different marriages.   Not because one birth wa

Ep 346: A Homebirth Story About Learning How to Relax

Have you ever tried to relax on purpose– and realized you had no idea how? That you could feel the tension sitting in your body, but you couldn't figure out which part of

Ep 345: Preparing the whole woman: mind, body, heart, home, and marriage

Here's something I've watched happen more times than I can count.   A woman prepares beautifully for her birth. Really well. And she's still blindsided.   This doesn’

Ep 344: Homebirth at 42 Weeks After a GBS Positive Test

Have you ever felt like the Lord told you something about your birth… and then watched every circumstance line up to tell you it wasn't going to happen?   Gracie Gould

Ep 343: The Moment in Labor Nobody Warns You About

The moment in labor nobody warns you about The one idea: the moment arrives for almost everyone, and everything depends on whether she was told it was coming. The one a

Ep 342: Six Births, Zero Patterns: Rebecca's Story of Trust Over Formula

Have you ever looked at something in front of you and thought, "there's just no way"– no way that's going to fit, no way that's coming out, no way I can do this… and then

Ep 341: Why More Research isn't Making You Feel Ready

Why more research isn't making you feel ready The one idea: you don't have a knowledge gap. You have an integration gap, and you've been treating one as the other. The on

Ep 340: Freebirth Story: What Changed Between Her First Birth and Her Third

What if you could do all of it right– read every book, listen to every episode, interview the midwife, make the plan… and still walk into your birth completely unprepared

Ep 339: Cholestasis, Raw Spleen, and a Dream Homebirth: Angelica's Full Journey

Have you ever decided — fully, completely, no-turning-back decided — that you were done doing something a certain way? And then done everything in your power to make the

Ep 338: A Midwife, the Yellow Pages, and Two Babies Born at Home

What if the most powerful birth preparation isn't a course, a class, or a stack of books at all, but a mother who's simply willing to go first, so everyone behind her can

Ep 337: "I Got Everything I Wanted": Carly's Two Very Different Homebirths

Have you ever worked so hard for something — prepared for it, prayed over it, given it everything you had — only to watch it unfold nothing like you pictured? And then fo

Ep 336: You're Going to Meet Your Power: A Pain-Free Homebirth in Sweden

Have you ever sat in that strange, sacred in-between, when labor has whispered its beginning but hasn't fully arrived, and felt something rise up in you that you couldn't

Ep 335: A Homebirth Story of Faith, Fear, and Trusting Harder

What happens when you're preparing for birth while carrying far more than the weight of pregnancy? When your family is spread across the country, your husband's health is

Ep 334: "I Did It Scared": An 11-Pound Unmedicated Home Birth

Have you ever felt called toward something… but been completely terrified to do it? This week, we're joined by Ally Roberson, a wife, mother of two, homesteader, and cre

Ep 333: The Midwife Who Told Her She Didn't Need a Midwife

Have you ever been so certain about a decision that, even when everyone around you questioned it, you knew deep down it was the right path for you?   My friends, today’

Ep 332: 42 Weeks and Learning to Wait

Have you ever looked back on a past birth experience and realized… “Wow, I didn’t actually know how powerful my body was”?   This week, we're speaking with Melissa Gurd

Ep 331: From Cesarean Grief to a Healing Homebirth

What happens when the birth you prayed for…doesn’t happen? And how do you move forward when the thing you prepared for so carefully ends in grief, disappointment, and qu