Surrendered Birth Stories: Your Christian Birth Story Podcast

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146: The Hidden Consequences of Trying To Control Your Birth (Infertility, IVF, Hyperemesis Gravidarum) [with Inara MacKay]

June 08, 2026

Sometimes it takes several births to learn what God has been trying to teach you all along-that His ways are above our ways, that His plans are better than our plans, and that if we would just sink into that promise and let go of the reigns, that we could trust Him to know and do what’s best. Inara finally had this revelation after her fourth birth, after a long and complicated fertility journey, and after several pregnancies and losses that left her incredibly sick. While she’s now found con...

145: Defeating Anxiety in Pregnancy, Postpartum, and Motherhood [with Taylor Hayes]

June 01, 2026

Have you ever been anxious about having a miscarriage once conceiving? What about the results of an ultrasound that said something other than what you expected to hear? Have you ever been anxious approaching labor, unsure how you were going to get through it? And postpartum-what happens when your hormones are all over the place, it’s nighttime, you’re alone, and awake AGAIN with a crying newborn who’s struggling to breastfeed? What do you do? Who do you turn to in order to battle this feeling...

144: Make Sure You Trust Your Birth Care Provider (Natural Birth, Home Birth, Water Birth) [with Aileeah Colgan]

May 25, 2026

At 18 years old, before you’re ready to start a family, you’re told that you have cancer and that you’ll have a very hard time getting pregnant one day so you should just plan on doing IVF. Then, you find out that your test results got mixed up with somebody else's and that none of those things are true! Would you be able to fully trust the medical establishment after that? At 36 weeks into her first pregnancy, Aileeah decided to switch to a home birth, a place where she knew she could r...