Happy Homebirth

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 was easy and one was hard. That isn't what made the difference. I've thought about this for years and I want to tell you what I think it actually was.

 
Links

Free workshop, September 21st — Why You've Read Everything and Still Don't Feel Ready: https://www.myhappyhomebirth.com/next

Whole Mother Homebirth: https://www.myhappyhomebirth.com/wholemotherhomebirth (use code PODCAST for 10% off)

YouTube: https://youtu.be/y3OxNeiA1D0?si=ZWV-Y8BBXboZembc

Sponsor — Samaritan Ministries: https://samaritanministries.org/happyhomebirth

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 you to let go of first?

 

In this episode, we're speaking with Sabrina Brooks. Sabrina is a wife to Sam, a youth pastor, and mama to Freeman and Whitley, who are four and one and a half and who were both born at home. She grew up in California and now lives in a small town in southeastern Illinois. And some of you will recognize her already– Sabrina is Cynthia's daughter, from episode 338. Cynthia went first in her family more than thirty years ago, and today we get to hear from one of the babies she birthed.

 

Sabrina shares a year and a half with almost no cycles, the friend at a pickleball game who changed everything, and conceiving without ever having a period that month. She takes us through a first birth at forty-two weeks where she hit the wall and lay there certain she was about to be labeled failure to progress– in her own home. And then a second birth where she finally understood what everyone meant by embracing a contraction.

 

Links

Free workshop, September 21st — Why You've Read Everything and Still Don't Feel Ready: https://www.myhappyhomebirth.com/next

Whole Mother Homebirth: https://www.myhappyhomebirth.com/wholemotherhomebirth (use code PODCAST for 10% off)

YouTube: 

Sponsor — Samaritan Ministries:

https://samaritanministries.org/happyhomebirth

Cynthia's Episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-338-a-midwife-the-yellow-pages-and-two-babies-born-at-home/id1446934537?i=1000781369332

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’t happen because she was lazy about it. It happens because she unknowingly prepared one part of herself extremely thoroughly and left the other four areas almost untouched, and she didn't know there were five.

 

That's what today is about. What actually needs preparing, and what happens when you only do some of it.

 

Links

Free workshop, September 21st — Why You've Read Everything and Still Don't Feel Ready: https://www.myhappyhomebirth.com/next

Whole Mother Homebirth: https://www.myhappyhomebirth.com/wholemotherhomebirth (use code PODCAST for 10% off)

YouTube: https://youtu.be/ugzTFzBLYek

Sponsor — Samaritan Ministries: https://samaritanministries.org/happyhomebirth

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 is a wife to Jesse and a mama of four in Greenville, South Carolina, where they work with a local Christian theater and homeschool their crew. She came to homebirth by watching her own mother do it — and one of her midwives turned out to be the daughter of her mom's midwife.

 

In this episode Gracie shares four births: a planned homebirth that became a transfer and a short NICU stay, a homebirth in a fifth wheel camper trailer with a double shoulder dystocia, a hospital birth with midwives that surprised her, and a water birth at 42 weeks and 3 days after a pregnancy that tested her at every turn — breech at 32 weeks, GBS positive, two snowstorms, and castor oil that failed her twice. All four of her babies are here and healthy, and her youngest is on the recording with us.

Links

Free workshop, September 21st — Why You've Read Everything and Still Don't Feel Ready: https://www.myhappyhomebirth.com/next

Whole Mother Homebirth: https://www.myhappyhomebirth.com/wholemotherhomebirth (use code PODCAST for 10% off)

YouTube: https://youtu.be/O9mfkLNmTSg?si=xO2ftUXthv4Z5ngQ

Sponsor — Samaritan Ministries: https://samaritanministries.org/happyhomebirth

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 action: take the Homebirth Readiness Check. And a free workshop is coming.

 

FREE Peaceful Birth Reset: https://www.myhappyhomebirth.com/birthreset

 

Whole Mother Homebirth | https://www.myhappyhomebirth.com/wholemotherhomebirth (use code PODCAST for 10% off)

 

Learn more about Samaritan Ministries: https://samaritanministries.org/happyhomebirth