Episodes
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Rachael's Journey: Miscarriage, Infertility and Natural Birth
Join us on this episode of the Birth Journeys as Rachael shares her journey through infertility, pregnancy, and natural birth. She also shares how “Bright Spots” showed up on an ultrasound for her third baby and all that experience entailed. This episode covers miscarriage, infertility…
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Ruth’s Journey: A Homebirth and a Preterm Twin Birth in the Hospital
Join us on this episode of the Birth Journeys as Ruth shares how she always had a desire to homebirth. She shares her first sons birth at home and what she learned through that experience as well as a miscarriage birth and finally how her third pregnancy was a planned homebirth with twins but she...
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Stephanie's Journey: A Planned Hospital Birth with a Cleft Lip Diagnosis
Join us on this episode of the Birth Journeys as Stephanie shares her 4th birth story which includes a cleft lip diagnosis for her baby and facing the fear of possible breath support at birth. This episode covers midwifery care, cleft lip diagnosis, and hospital birth.
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Brynna's Journey: A Surprise Breech Homebirth
Join us on this episode of the Birth Journeys as Brynna shares how her first baby was a surprise breech delivery at home and her second birth was a head down waterbirth. She shares the difference in her births, recovery and her struggles with breastfeeding. This episode covers midwifery care,...
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Emmy's Journey: I Want to Normalize Birth for My Girls
Join us on this episode of the Birth Journeys as Emmys shares the rest of her birth stories with us and how she grew and learned so much through each season of her childbearing years. This episode covers hospital birth, midwifery care, homebirth, and unintentional freebirth. Resources: Pregnancy,...
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Emmy's Journey: God Really Cares About Me
Join us on this episode of the Birth Journeys as Emmy shares her first three births and about how she is intentional about planning a restful postpartum season. This episode covers Miscarriage, HELLP SYNDROME, induction and natural birth. Resources: Spiritual Midwifery: https://a.co/d/4x6gLaY...
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Ena's Journey: Birth Can’t Be Planned
Join us on this episode of the Birth Journeys as Ena shares how she planned a homebirth with her first baby and how she was glad with what she chose but it still didn’t go exactly as she’d imagined. She also shares about her experience as a labor and delivery nurse and how her birth has shifted…
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Rebecca’s Journey: I’m So Thankful We Were At Home
Join us on this episode of the Birth Journeys as Rebecca shares her third birth story. She shares how she chose to have her baby at home and how her midwife was able to remedy a postpartum situation with her baby without the trauma of separation. This episode covers midwifery care and homebirth....
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Melissa’s Journey: Breaking Free From the Medical System to Experience Positive Birth
On this episode of the Birth Journeys Melissa shared how every birth and miscarriage that she experienced within the medical system was interfered with leading to medical abuse and birth trauma. For her last birth, she took her pregnancy and birth into her own hands and experienced a redemptive...
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Shaina’s Journey: Birth Trauma, Postpartum Depression, and a Redemption Birth
Join us on this episode of the birth Journeys as Shauna shares how her first birth left her feeling unseen and unheard by her medical team and others in her community. She decided she didn’t want any more children after that horrible experience but then the Lord stepped in and blessed her with a...
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Cassie’s Journey: Taking Radical Responsibility in Birth
Join us on this episode of the Birth Journeys as Cassie shares her 5th birth story. She shares how she came to the choice of freebirth after having her other four at home with midwives. This episode covers abortion, homebirth, midwifery care, and freebirth. Resources: Cassie’s previous births:...
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Erin’s Journey: Using the Power of Choice in Birth
Join us on this episode of the Birth Journeys as Erin shares how after choosing the epidural in get first birth, she decided to do more mental preparation the second time around to achieve the birth she’d hoped for and walked away feeling so empowered because of it. This episode covers hospital...
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Ruthie’s Journey: Trusting the Lord and Your Instincts in Birth
Today on the Birth Journeys Podcast, Ruthie shares the rest of her birth stories and how they each were different in their own way but how she was able to trust the Lord and her instincts along the way. This episode covers stillbirth, infertility, hospital birth, natural birth, epidural birth…
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Ruthie's Journey: Knowing What You Want and Advocating For Yourself In Birth
Today on the Birth Journeys Podcast, Ruthie shares her first six births, including a stillbirth. She shares how trusting God's plan is best and how each birth taught her new lessons along the way. This episode covers stillbirth, infertility, hospital birth, natural birth, and twin birth.
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Kacy's Journey: Trusting the Lord for an Amazing Birth
Join us on this episode of the Birth Journeys as Kacy shares her second birth and how the Lord was faithful to keep His promise to give her an amazing birth. This episode covers midwifery care and homebirth.
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Kara’s Journey: Choosing What Brings You the Most Peace
Join us on this episode of the Birth Journeys as Kara shares how she was treated in her first birth by medical staff led her to choose a different route for her second baby’s birth. This episode covers miscarriage, Fragile X Syndrome, hospital birth, uterine infection postpartum, midwifery care…
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Natasha’s Journey: An Intense, Quick, Easy Birth
Join us today on the Birth Journeys as Natasha shares her second birth story which was much shorter than her first and how she was able to prepare her body in a different way to try to avoid postpartum hemorrhage. This episode covers midwifery care, homebirth, and postpartum hemorrhage. Reach...
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Cali’s Journey: God's Timing is the Best
Join us on this episode of the Birth Journeys as Cali shares her journey through never planning to have children to her very unexpected pregnancy and how much of a gift Gods blessing ended up being, in His perfect time. This episode covers midwifery care, home birth, and subchorionic hematoma.
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Miriam’s Journey: Three Natural Hospital Births (Part 2)
Join us on this episode of the Birth Journeys as Miriam shares her third birth story and how she had to trust the Lord and surrender her wishes for a homebirth and was able to see Him work through her circumstances. This episode covers prenatal depression, thyroid issues, hospital birth, natural...
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Miriam’s Journey: Three Natural Hospital Births (Part 1)
Join us on this episode of the Birth Journeys as Miriam shares her first two birth stories, her struggles with prenatal depression, postpartum anxiety and managing her thyroid postpartum. This episode covers prenatal depression, thyroid issues, hospital birth, natural birth, and postpartum…
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Natalie’s Journey: Freebirthing After Cesarean for the Second Time
Today Natalie shares her second freebirth story. We also chat about her holistic lifestyle, MTFR gene mutation, and precipitous labor. This episode covers cesarean birth, VBAC, homebirth, freebirth, MTHFR gene mutation, precipitous labor. Resources: Birthing Instincts Podcast:...
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Mariah’s Journey: The Determination to Have a VBAC After Two Cesareans
Join us on this episode of the Birth Journeys as Mariah shares how after her first two births both ended in unplanned cesareans, she educated herself and had the determination to do whatever it took to have her third baby vaginally. This episode covers cesarean birth, pre eclampsia, postpartum…
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Brenda’s Journey: Changing Your Birth Plan When it Doesn’t Make Sense
Join us on this episode of the Birth Journeys as Brenda shares how birth choosing to be induced for her second birth possibly led to an emergency cesarean. She went on to have two VBACs, including one at home then another emergency cesarean. For her 6th baby, she chose a planned cesarean even...
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Crystal's Journey: Trusting God's Strength for Homebirth After Cesarean
Join us on this episode of the Birth Journeys as Crystal shares how her first birth was a planned homebirth which ended up in an unplanned cesarean. For her second baby she chose a new midwife and was able to have the homebirth she desired. This episode covers midwifery care, hospital transfer,...
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Layla's Journey: We Plan and God Decides
Join us on this episode of the Birth Journeys as Layla shares how both of her births were wildly different and how she believes they happened exactly as they needed to. This episode covers thyroid issues, hospital birth, epidural birth, transverse baby and cesarean birth.
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Natasha: Choosing Homebirth as a First Time Mom
Join us on this episode of the Birth Journeys as Natasha shares how getting pregnant during the craziness of covid led her to make some different decisions for her life and birth. She was able to have a positive first birth experience in her own home and is now a strong advocate for home…
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Kaitlyn: The Most Amazing Experience of My Life
Join us on this episode of the Birth Journeys as Kaitlyn shares how her first birth didnt go as she imagined due to a cholestasis diagnosis. She shares how she went on to have a totally different birth experience the second time around and how both births have given her a unique perspective on...
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Christa’s Journey: Trusting The Birth Process
Join us on this episode of the Birth Journeys as Christa shares how she desired to have a homebirth after experiencing birth in the hospital. This episode covers hospital birth, miscarriage, midwifery care, shoulder dystocia, and homebirth. Resources: Birth Without Fear:...
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Marayla’s Journey: Trusting Your God-Given Intuition
Join us on this episode of the Birth Journeys as Marayla shares her journey of how she chose homebirth after two hosptial births and how she preferred the home birth experience more, despite experiencing a postpartum hemorrhage. This episode covers hospital birth, natural birth, midwifery care,...
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Shianne’s Journey: Endometriosis, A Surprise Pregnancy, and Quick First Birth
Join us on this episode of the Birth Journeys as Shianne shares how being diagnosed with endometriosis left her fertility in question but surprisingly got pregnant quickly after she got married. She also shares how her birth went differently than she expected and her struggles with breastfeeding...
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Lynn Schulte: Institute for Birth Healing
Join us on this episode of the Birth Journeys as Lynn Schulte of The Institute For Birth Healing and Center for Birth Healing, shares how she found a common pattern that shows up in the pelvis after birth and how she learned to release these patterns effectively. Lynn holds a Bachelor of Science…
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Jamie's Journey: A Redeeming Second Birth (Part 2)
Join us on this episode of the Birth Journeys as Jamie shares her second birth story and how some aspects were similar to her first but how her immediate postpartum experience felt like redemption compared to her first. This episode covers PCOS, gestational diabetes, induction, hospital birth…
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Jamie’s Journey: PROM, Induction, and a NICU Stay (Part 1)
Join us on this episode of the Birth Journeys as Jamie shares her story through PCOS, unexpected pregnancy, miscarriage and finally her first pregnancy and birth that didn’t go as planned and left some birth trauma. This episode covers PCOS, miscarriage, gestational diabetes, premature rupture of...
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Sari's Journey: An Unmedicated Birth with a Shoulder Dystocia
Join us on this episode of the Birth Journeys as Sari shares how she chose an unmedicated birth with hospital midwives for her second birth and how things didn’t go exactly as she had imagined it. This episode covers hospital birth, unmedicated birth, midwifery care, and shoulder dystocia.
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Ashley's Journey: Trusting Your Intuition and Being Your Own Authority in Birth
Join us on this episode of the Birth Journeys as Ashley from Episode 2 returns to tell her most recent birth story and how she felt empowered to trust the intuition God gave her for her birth. This episode covers midwifery care, pregnancy after loss, and homebirth.
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Joani's Journey: A Positive Perspective During an Unexpected Induction
Join us on this episode of the Birth Journeys as Joani shares how a preeclampsia diagnosis led to an unplanned induction and later how she processed the grief of not having the birth she dreamed of. This episode covers preeclampsia, induction, cesarean birth, and healing from birth trauma.
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Gina's Journey: A Parent's Guide To A Safer Childbirth
Join us on this episode of the Birth Journeys as Gina shares how her work as a childbirth attorney led her to see the common interventions that led to the tragic outcomes that required her services. This episode covers cesarean birth, and information from a childbirth attorney. Find Gina and her...
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Tricia's Journey: You Can Do Anything For 90 Seconds
Join us today on the Birth Journeys as Tricia shares how an unexpected preeclampsia diagnosis and induction for her first birth helped her make different choices for her second, even though it required a second induction due to preeclampsia again. This episode covers preeclampsia diagnosis,...
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Shian's Journey: Utilizing Interventions When Needed
Join us on this episode of the Birth Journeys as Shian shares how having to be unexpectedly induced, still left her being able to advocate for herself and resulting in a positive outcome. She also shares a spontaneous, unmedicated second birth story. This episode covers induction, hospital birth,...
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Karyn's Journey: Birth Is Such An Ordinary Thing
Join us on this episode of the Birth Journeys as Karyn shares her homebirth stories and how she trusted in the Lord to be her care provider and lead her in her births. This episode covers midwifery care, home birth, freebirth, and miscarriage. Reach Karyn Here: Shalombirth.org Karyn’s Book: Why…
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Shandi’s Journey: Thyroid Issues, Hashimotos and the Power of the Mind
Join us on this episode of the Birth Journeys as Shandi shares how her massage therapist encouraged her to get her thyroid checked out and how that led her down a path to advocate for her health. She went on to have an uneventful pregnancy and a beautiful birth that was followed by continuous...
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Karissa's Journey: Building Your Faith Through Pregnancy and Childbirth
Join us on this episode of the Birth Journeys as Karissa shares how early on, God spoke to her about trusting Him with her womb. After that encounter, she trusted God through all of her pregnancies and birth and saw His hand on every experience and situation He led her to. This episode covers...
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Cat's Journey: Protecting Your Birth Space
Join us today on the Birth Journeys as Cat shares how her births were effected by who she allowed into her birth space and the impact those choices made. This episode covers midwifery care, natural birth, unassisted birth and a CPS investigation. Reach Cat Here: Itscatherineprice.com Instagram:...
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Victoria's Journey: Everything Works Out How It’s Supposed To
Join us on this episode of the Birth Journeys as Victoria shares how her planned homebirth turned into a hospital transfer, an unexpected diagnosis for her baby and all that transpired afterwards. She also shares about her second birth that ended up being a redemptive experience even with...
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Sharla's Journey: The Confidence to Give Birth
Join us on this episode of the Birth Journeys as Sharla shares how each birth gave her to confidence to make different birth choices and trust her body to bring her baby earthside. This episode covers hospital birth, epidural birth, midwifery care, natural birth, and miscarriage.
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Tasha’s Journey: Choosing the Path that Brings You Peace
Join us on this episode of the Birth Journeys as Tasha shares how along her journey she had to make choices that brought her and her family peace and rest even if it went against what she thought she’d ideally choose. This episode covers hospital birth, epidural birth, homebirth, midwifery care,...
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Cassie's Journey: Birth Doesn’t Have To Be Traumatic
Join us on this episode of the Birth Journeys as Cassie shared her stories of empowering home births, healing from abortion trauma and preparing for a freebirth. This episode covers abortion, homebirth, midwifery care and freebirth prep. Resources: A Heavenly Welcome http://aheavenlywelcome.com...
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Diana’s Journey: An Emergency Cesarean and a Redeeming Homebirth
Join us on this episode of Birth Journeys as Diana shares how a homebirth hospital transfer ended in an emergency cesarean due to the classic cascade of interventions. She shares how that experience gave her a passion for women to heal from birth trauma and how she eventually went on to have a...
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Kelli's Journey: Holistic Mindset, IVF, and Homebirth Transfer
Join us on this episode of the Birth Journeys as Kelli shared her journey through IVF and all of the things she learned on that journey. She also shares how a procedure she had in her 20’s had an impact on her birth years later. This episode covers IVF, Induction, LEEP procedure, emergency d&c...
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Dara's Journey: Inviting God Into Your Birth
Join us on this episode of the Birth Journeys as Dara shares how God healed her fears of childbirth and all He taught her along the way. This episode covers miscarriage, homebirth, natural birth, and midwifery care.