Ever wish you could attend a home birth with Lauren and Brooke? Well, in this episode, you'll get a taste of that experience.

Full disclosure: we ourselves would also love to attend a birth together, but with states between us we haven't been able to.

We wrote up a hypothetical home birth scenario for a fictional character named Josephine, and in this episode, we walk you through how we'd apply the steps of The Way Of The Hearthmother from the moment we get called in, through the labor and birth, and the immediate postpartum.

Whether you're an aspiring or current birth attendant, or an expectant mama, we hope this gives you some practical and applicable tips for applying these beautiful principles to labor and birth.

Mentioned in this episode:

• The Way of the Hearthmother (podcast episode to listen to FIRST if you haven't already)
• Hearthmother Journey: Raising Up the Next Generation of Holy, Wild Birthkeepers (NOW enrolling through Sept 25th).
• Hearthmother Journey Open House REPLAY (watch this to get a look inside the program and to hear our students talk about their experiences with it).

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SHOW NOTES “FOOTER”

• Email us to say hi: holywildbirth@gmail.com

• Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: Fill out the form

• Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: http://sisterbirth.com/podcast-guest

• Join Natural Christian Home Birth (Assisted and Unassisted) - a FB community

• Become a holy, wild birthkeeper with us inside Hearthmother Journey

From Lauren:

• Instagram

• Midwifery consults: Email lauren.rootedineden@gmail.com

From Brooke:

• Instagram

• Trust God, Trust Birth Workshop - a 5-part high-level roadmap to a confident home birth (pay what you can)

• Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop - a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox

• Embrace Birth Journey - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation (courses + private community)

Ok, so maybe you wouldn't expect to hear a conversation on Holy Wild Birth about the educational choices we've made for our kids. It doesn't seem immediately relevant, we know.

But it is. Because we got requests for this, we're going to passionately get on our soapboxes about the beauty of the unschooling lifestyle and it's benefits for children.

And then we're going to bring it home by tying it in with autonomous, undisturbed childbirth AND the pathways we take to becoming birth workers, too.

As promised, here are some of our favorite resources of learning more about the unschooling life.

To learn more about Hearthmother Journey and get on the waitlist for early enrollment in the October 2024 cohort, go here.

SHOW NOTES “FOOTER”

• Email us to say hi: holywildbirth@gmail.com

• Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: Fill out the form

• Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: sisterbirth.com/podcast-guest

• Join Natural Christian Home Birth (Assisted and Unassisted) - a FB community

From Lauren:

• Instagram

• Midwifery consults: Email lauren.rootedineden@gmail.com

From Brooke:

• Instagram

• Trust God, Trust Birth Workshop - a 5-part high-level roadmap to a confident home birth (pay what you can)

• Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop - a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox

• Embrace Birth Journey Membership - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation (courses + private community)

In this episode we discuss finding the balance of showing up in a birth space with skill and confidence while also respecting the process enough to not disturb it with unnecessary interventions.

Its not always the easiest thing to navigate the use of our "handy dandy" tools/skill sets but we do believe that some times doing nothing is the very something that we ought to be doing, while also having the wisdom to reach in to our tool bag when the moment deems it necessary. We hope this discussion gives you some food for thought and practical advice on navigating this question.

Mentioned in the episode:

The Way of The Hearthmother Podcast Episode

Hearthmother Journey || Raising the Next Generation of Holy Wild Birthkeepers

SHOW NOTES “FOOTER”

• Email us to say hi: ⁠⁠holywildbirth@gmail.com⁠⁠

• Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: ⁠⁠Fill out the form⁠⁠

• Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: ⁠⁠sisterbirth.com/podcast-guest⁠⁠

• Join ⁠⁠Natural Christian Home Birth (Assisted and Unassisted)⁠⁠ - a FB community
• Join Rooted in Eden PMA Might Networks Social Circle

From Lauren:

• ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠

• Midwifery consults: Email lauren.rootedineden@gmail.com

From Brooke:

• ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠

• ⁠⁠Trust God, Trust Birth Workshop⁠⁠ - a 5-part high-level roadmap to a confident home birth (pay what you can)

• ⁠⁠Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop ⁠⁠- a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox

• ⁠⁠Embrace Birth Journey⁠⁠ - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation

Here we pick up from the previous episode with the grand finale of Willow & Wren's pregnancy and their birth story!

Hear about how Lauren chose her birth team, the challenges she faced physically at the end of pregnancy, and the wild ride of giving birth to them.

Remember, Embrace Birth Journey is available for $50 off using code TWINS at checkout now through Sunday 4/28 only.

CONNECT

• Email us to say hi: holywildbirth@gmail.com

• Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: Fill out the form

• Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: sisterbirth.com/podcast-guest

• Join Natural Christian Home Birth (Assisted and Unassisted) - a FB community

From Lauren:

• Instagram

• Midwifery consults: Email lauren.rootedineden@gmail.com

From Brooke:

• Instagram

• Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop - a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox

• Embrace Birth Journey - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation courses library for unassisted and midwife-attended births
  

In this very special episode, our very own Lauren Hall shares a very personal story -- the story of the birth of her twin girls, Willow and Wren on Palm Sunday 2024.

She begins at the very beginning -- even before the beginning -- by telling the story of her son Levi, the born-too-soon twin of her daughter Leela, followed by the story of the Lord opening her heart to conceiving a baby... and then eventually learning there was actually TWO babies.

Throughout it all, you'll be blown away by all the highly personal and tenderly caring ways that the Lord worked in Lauren and her family's hearts and lives.

After you finish this episode, find Part 2, available tomorrow.

This episode was recorded while Brooke (who resides in Michigan) stayed a week with Lauren (who resides in Arkansas) during her postpartum time. We don't get to record together in person very often, and it was so great!

Also: as a fun bonus, now through April 28th ONLY Embrace Birth Journey -- Brooke's comprehensive Christian home birth preparation course library -- can be snagged for $50 using the code TWINS. Go to sisterbirth.com/journey for more info and to enroll with lifetime access.

This episode with the beautiful Katherine DeGroot -- a MN mama to 4 young children all born outside the hospital -- covers not only her four birth stories (with a special emphasis on the 4th) but also went down some delightful rabbit trails, which I did NOT edit out because I believe you'll find them very worthwhile to listen to.

Some of what we covered:

• How each birth was a different “era” for her relationship and family
• Being open to life
• The foreshadowing and significant dreams she expereinced leading up to her fourth birth
• Why hard isn’t bad — not shirking away from pain
• The “cost” of castor oil use
• The fourth baby effect
• Reclaiming Big family culture for our generation
• The way that home birthing puts us on a different health trajectory
• Creating - -by design-- the childhood you want your children to have
• Reverting to Catholicism
• Radical trust in God alone for the work no one else can do for you
• The gift of birth is that it strips us down to our humanity

You can find Katie at @katherinelouisedegroot on IG or on her website.

A written version of her 4th birth story is on her blog.

Birth Story Disclaimer

The choices, beliefs and opinions of the mamas sharing their stories are as individual as the storyteller herself and do not necessarily reflect the beliefs or recommended choices of Lauren and/or Brooke.

“FOOTER”

• Email us to say hi: holywildbirth@gmail.com

• Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: Fill out the form

• Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: sisterbirth.com/podcast-guest

• Join Natural Christian Home Birth (Assisted and Unassisted) - a FB community

From Lauren:

• Instagram

• Midwifery consults: Email lauren.rootedineden@gmail.com

From Brooke:

• Instagram

• Trust God, Trust Birth Workshop - a 5-part high-level roadmap to a confident home birth (pay what you can)

• Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop - a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox

• Embrace Birth Journey - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation

In this conversation with Staci -- a midwest mom to five -- you'll hear about themes like:

• How she learned to trust herself and authentically know her own preferences
• Having a mother who bcame a midwife after she had grown up
• The slow evolution from being people who would never be crazy enough to have their babies at home to ultimately choosing unassisted birth for their fifth baby
• Her process of choosing birth attendants and a photographer for her unassisted birth
• Wrestling with God over the timing of the start of her labor and ultimately choosing a new attitude, which led to release
• The difference it makes to have no other perceived authority present during labor
• Her moment of mentally deciding -- even in the absence of some physiological signs -- that birth doesn’t need to be long and it was time to push the head out
• How God saw and honored so many of her very specific desires
• Why she believes birth like this is the birthright of every woman

You can find Staci at www.StacisHouse.com

Birth Story Disclaimer

The choices, beliefs and opinions of the mamas sharing their stories are as individual as the storyteller herself and do not necessarily reflect the beliefs or recommended choices of Lauren and/or Brooke.

Connect:

• Email us to say hi: holywildbirth@gmail.com

• Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: Fill out the form

• Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: sisterbirth.com/podcast-guest

• Join Natural Christian Home Birth (Assisted and Unassisted) - a FB community

From Lauren:

Instagram

Midwifery consults: Email lauren.rootedineden@gmail.com

From Brooke:

Instagram

Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop - a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox
Embrace Birth Journey - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation courses library + community