Happy Homebirth

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

Ep 330: Why This Labor Nurse Chose Homebirth

What happens when the person working inside the hospital system… still chooses homebirth for herself? And… what does it look like when years of witnessing birth— the bea

Ep 329: This Story Does Not Belong to Fear: Lydia's Homebirth Story

Can hope return after something painful changes the way you experience motherhood?   This week, we're speaking with Lydia Ashford, a flower farmer, worship leader, wife

Ep 328: One Contraction at a Time: Faith's 47 Hour Homebirth

Have you ever reached the point in labor—or honestly, in life—where you truly didn’t think you could keep going?   This week, we're speaking with Faith Robinson, a stay

Ep 327: Rebuilding a Family Legacy Through Birth and Parenthood

What does it look like to re-build a family legacy?  And how do birth, motherhood, healing, and even hardship become part of that restoration? Gabrielle Manier is a wif

Ep 326: Trusting God with Her Baby's Life: Sarah's Micro Preemie Birth

We all know that life is unpredictable in many ways, but when you’re experiencing extreme unpredictability in the midst of your pregnancy, how do you imagine you’d feel?