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YOUR BIRTH, GOD’S WAY - Christian Pregnancy, Natural Birth, Postpartum, Breastfeeding Help

Lori Morris, CNM, MSN - Certified Nurse-Midwife, Christian Pregnancy, Home Birth Advocate, Nursing Expert

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** TOP 1.5% of Podcasts in the World ** Are you a Christian mom who is pregnant and you feel out of control in your prenatal care -- like you have no voice and no say in how things go? Are you yearning to bring God back into your time of birth? Do you feel unsupported and alone in this early motherhood journey? Do you want to find your voice to bring you the kind of care you’ve been dreaming of having? IT IS POSSIBLE to reclaim your pregnancy and postpartum so you can have the peace and joy ...
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Are you angry with God about your fertility journey? Do you stress and become jealous over other women’s pregnancy success? Wish you could overcome the negative thoughts of shame, guilt & low self-esteem? Are you ready to be free of the emotional roller coaster? In this podcast, you will find spiritual, healthy and mental tips to set you free from anxiety, a tensing body and fear around your infertility or pregnancy loss. My mission is to strengthen your emotional wellbeing with spiritual gr ...
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Armed to the Heart - Military Women, Work-life Balance, Female Veterans, Christian Moms, Pregnancy and Postpartum

Megan Gephart | Christian Life Coach | Military Mom Advocate | Catholic Working Mom | Pregnancy and Postpartum Coach

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Live out God’s calling in work & family life, within and beyond the uniform — Are you feeling alone as a woman of Christian faith in the military or another male-dominated environment? Are you driven to make a big impact, but wish you could be more present, and give more time to your family? Are you working to lead change, struggling to find your voice or courage as you swim against the current? Are you a high-achiever pouring yourself out for everyone else but burnt out, stressed, and strug ...
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Hey there, lovely! In this episode, I want to talk about prioritizing sleep on your fertility journey. Sleep is important for our overall health but it's one of the first things that may get cut short when our schedules are busy. While trying to conceive, especially after a pregnancy loss, sleep is important too. It gives our bodies energy, helps t…
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Prenatal nutrition is one of the only things you can truly control during pregnancy. If you've listened long to my podcast, you know that's something I preach over and over, especially in episodes 23-26 and 88. In today's episode, I have the pleasure of talking with Lily Nichols, RDN, CDE, author of three books all about this topic. You can find th…
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Hey there, lovely! In this episode, I want to talk about trusting God on your fertility journey. Walking through infertility or pregnancy loss will challenge your faith. In this season, we must stay close to God when we feel like giving up. Through the struggle we can build trust by remembering who God is and remembering His word. I'm going to shar…
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It is only natural that many moms are afraid of tearing "down there" during birth. Perineal tears (aka perineal lacerations) seem pretty scary, but the best way to deal with fear is by getting the information so you can think about it more rationally. Yes, tears do happen, but they are rare and the risk that you have one can be reduced by doing som…
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Hey there, lovely! In this episode, I want to talk about getting off the emotional roller coaster of your fertility journey which can causes stress. Trying to conceive can get stressful when it is taking longer than you'd like. We need ways to relieve that stress so we can rest, connect with God and have productive days. I'm going to share my 3 fav…
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If you are struggling now or have every struggled with infertility, or if you are currently trying to conceive (TTC), you are going to love this episode. Even if you haven't struggled, you will learn so much about your body and tracking your cycles which will help you know your body even better, so you are going to love this episode too! Today, I t…
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Hey, there, lovely, In this episode, I'd like to challenge how you see yourself on this trying to conceive journey. If you are seeing yourself, your identity, in your circumstance, trial or what you have or don't have, then you are believing a lie that must be removed and renewed with a new belief, the real truth. This key phrase will help you to s…
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SHOW NOTES Kinda like with birth, if you listen to people around you, you probably think that the newborn period is a traumatic time of screaming babies and nobody sleeping much. Babies are either colic or teething or allergic to this or that or won’t sleep at night. It can sound pretty scary. But what if I told you that all of that is something th…
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Hey, there, lovely! In this episode, I want to tackle your anger with God about your fertility journey. I know how you feel. You didn't think this would be your journey and here you are. And you don't want to be mad at God when you know he's the only one who can help you; it's exhausting and robbing you of being emotionally well. I want to share th…
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Hey, there, lovely! In this episode, I'm going to share my story and why I want to encourage you on your trying to conceive journey. It's good to share our stories because it can lead to healing but we, also, have to decide are we going to stay stuck in that story(anger, guilt, shame) or move forward into a new one(hope, joy, contentment). I hope t…
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Hey, there, lovely! In this episode, I want to help you have less anxiety, worry and fear over your trying to conceive journey. I know you are feeling discouraged; you have been trying for a while and/or you may have had a pregnancy loss. This journey can bring up a lot of emotions that will not serve you and keep you from being emotionally well. T…
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SHOW NOTES: Have you noticed this terminology that pretty much everybody uses about birth? The doctor said I “had to”. I asked the nurse if I “could”. They wouldn’t “let me”. Do you hear that? There’s a structure here that puts “THEM” above you…..and yet it’s YOUR birth. YOU hired THEM to be there. I wanna talk to you today about how a simple chang…
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Welcome! This is an introduction to Growing Through Infertility. My mission is to strengthen your emotional wellbeing with spiritual growth, holistic health and mindset work while you are trying to conceive. This journey is not what I though it would be, but with God I've been strengthened and encouraged to move through this season with joy in my w…
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SHOW NOTES: Today’s episode is all about nutrition because there isn’t much you can control about pregnancy, but what you eat is one of them and we need to be making sure we do our best to give our bodies and our babies the absolute best we can so we can be healthy and strong throughout pregnancy. This information is also especially useful to moms …
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Information on this family's story on Children's Health Defense website Article on FB This family's VAERs Report My resources to educated and prepare yourself Helpful Links: HOW TO WORK WITH LORI: --> Sign up HERE for the Your Birth, God's Way Online Christian Childbirth Course! This is a COMPLETE childbirth education course with a God-led foundati…
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Many of you have struggled since listening to my series on circumcision back in January with knowing how to make sense of the current circumcision situation in our country and how that relates to the Old Testament biblical mandate for circumcision. I got an email from one of my listeners that shed some new light on the topic that I think will help …
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In today's episode, I interview Aly McClain from the Peaceful Homebirth podcast. Aly shares with us her background as a registered nurse, the story of her traumatic c-section birth with her first baby, her road to healing and recovery, and her beautiful, redeeming home birth she went on to have later. You will learn about how even those of us in th…
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SHOW NOTES: Are routine prenatal tests a good idea or are they simply another tool of our medicalized maternity system used to derail our birth plans and get us back in line with the standardized care they prefer? This episode will look at things like routine STD testing (specifically syphilis testing which is called RPR and TPPA), routine gestatio…
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SHOW NOTES: Pregnant women are not sick. Pregnant women are NORMAL and they should be treated that way. But 90% of women choose to see obstetricians for their pregnancies. Obstetricians are trained surgeons. We can't be surprised when surgeons act like surgeons. This episode dives into the risks women take when they decide to see an OBGYN for their…
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If you are getting your prenatal care from a traditional practice, it is almost a guarantee that you will be offered an induction, or worse, scared into thinking you need an induction when it's not really true. This episode will look at 3 of the most common "reasons" (read: lies) that obstetricians or medwives use to scare you into thinking you nee…
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SHOW NOTES: Today's BONUS EPISODE is an article from Children's Health Defense looking at the evidence behind the RSV shot and whether it is safe and effective for pregnant mothers and babies. Helpful Links: HOW TO WORK WITH LORI: --> Sign up HERE for the Your Birth, God's Way Online Christian Childbirth Course! This is a COMPLETE childbirth educat…
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I felt called to speak to the pressure many of us feel at this time of the year to finish Lent strong and prepare for Easter. Today we'll dive into 3 tips and invitations if you're feeling like you're just trying to keep up and have very little breathing room or time to rest, in the midst of everything you're carrying and doing. Whether you’ve stuc…
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SHOW NOTES: There are a lot of lessons we can learn from scripture that are seemingly not about birth, and yet the lessons learned can be applied. In our evening worship this past Sunday, we talked about something that is not new here. I’ve told you and warned you before, but I want to show it to you from a different angle so maybe you’ll realize h…
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Limiting beliefs about birth can completely change your ability to have a successful natural birth God's way, so in this episode we dig into a couple examples of limiting beliefs. We look at God's perfect design and then we look at how we can undermine that design with our choices when we choose not to work with and support God's way. Episode 43 & …
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Our culture, aided by Satan, has done a great job of robbing moms of the joy of the early days of motherhood. It's now an expectation that it will be a chaotic unhappy time but this is NOT right and it is NOT of God. Today's episode looks at some practical ways and some real-life choices you can make that will reduce the likelihood that you will st…
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SHOW NOTES It is so easy to become frozen in the paralysis of analysis of all the birth choices in our medicalized maternity system. But staying stuck isn't an option. We've got to get moving so in today's episode I give you 3 tips to help get yourself moving and to keep moving as you make your way through pregnancy and birth. I also share some too…
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SHOW NOTES Home birth is safe for most moms, no matter what the naysayers try to scare you into believing. However, for a small percentage of women, the hospital may be a safer environment because of the type of care they need or their baby needs. This episode looks at conditions that may indicate it is safer for mom to give birth at the hospital. …
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SHOW NOTES Everything has a cost…even if it's sold to you as being free….somebody is paying. It's not always a financial cost though. Sometimes it's things that are much more impactful than finances. After a few weeks looking at insurance from different angles and thinking about what it means to have our care dictated by these corporations, we need…
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SHOW NOTES Last week, Dr. Stu mentioned a need to pull away from choosing your doctor for your pregnancy care based on who your insurance will cover. A reel of him talking about this stirred up a lot of comments, so to follow up, today we're going to talk about how to pay for the care you deserve. Samaritan Ministries -- samaritanministries.org - p…
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In today's conclusion of my interview with Dr. Stuart Fischbein (from the Birthing Instincts podcast with Blyss Young), we talk about the intricacies of God's design, the new postpartum depression pill, "jabs", exposure to heavy metals, and Dr. Stu's recommendations for how to have the best chance to have a natural birth. Helpful Links: 2 WAYS TO W…
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Today, in the second part of my interview with Dr. Stuart Fischbein, we talk about SO MUCH including the following topics: maternal intuition in pregnancy, epidurals, Michel Odent's theory of the potential impact on baby girls of pre-labor c-sections, the role of maternal oxytocin, the symphony of hormones present in pregnancy & labor, the new post…
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This episode is the first part of an interview with Dr. Stu Fischbein of Birthing Instincts. In this episode we cover unnecessary cesareans, birth in nature, diabetes, and how Dr. Stu got from where he started to where he is today. Be sure to set a reminder to come back for part 2 tomorrow. Helpful Links: 2 WAYS TO WORK WITH LORI: --> Sign up HERE …
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Today I'm sharing vulnerably what Jesus has been reinforcing to me this week. A simple, but profound invitation of "let me be with you." It's so easy to compartmentalize our faith, to keep pushing through and doing the best we can to manage all that life is throwing at us from every direction...but how can we let him into everything we do to carry …
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SHOW NOTES Today's episode is part one of a two-part interview with Anna Espinoza. Anna recently gave birth vaginally to twins at term in an out-of-hospital setting after being advised to have a c-section at 32 weeks. This interview tells the story of her pregnancy and birth. It is an empowering story of what can happen when you do your own researc…
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SHOW NOTES Today's episode is part one of a two-part interview with Anna Espinoza. Anna recently gave birth vaginally to twins at term in an out-of-hospital setting after being advised to have a c-section at 32 weeks. This interview tells the story of her pregnancy and birth. It is an empowering story of what can happen when you do your own researc…
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SHOW NOTES This episode concludes the series on circumcision. We're talking about how to care for intact babies and circumcised babies as well. We also talk about how to educate your baby's doctor about how to care for intact babies. Helpful Links: 2 WAYS TO WORK WITH LORI: --> Sign up HERE for the Your Birth, God's Way Online Christian Childbirth …
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This will be a polar opposite message from what you've most likely been seeing, feeling, and the pressures you've been inundated with at this time of the year about New Years' Resolutions and goals. There are so many voices of the world, environments we're in, and our culture that shame and guilt us, that reinforce these narratives that we're never…
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SHOW NOTES Today's episode dives into the ethical considerations around infant circumcision. We look at issues like supposed health benefits, sexual impact, informed consent, psychological impact, and so much more. This is the third episode in a series on circumcision. It's not fun, but it's essential and I hope you are blessed by this content. Hel…
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SHOW NOTES Today's episode goes into what a circumcision is and how it is done. This is part 2 of a series on circumcision. Must watch video (entire video is worth your time, but essential part starts at 10:30) Helpful Links: 2 WAYS TO WORK WITH LORI: --> Sign up HERE for the Your Birth, God's Way Online Christian Childbirth Course! This is a COMPL…
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SHOW NOTES It's frustrating to feel social pressure to do something that just doesn't make any sense. You know something has no logic, but "everybody's doing it" and so you have to justify doing what is normal and what makes sense. Normally our conversations are around pregnancy and birth and how what the world does just doesn't make much sense, bu…
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SHOW NOTESToday's episode is part Bible study, part birth lesson. There are a lot of parallels to be found in the story of the lukewarm church in Revelation with the mindset necessary to succeed in having a natural birth in this medicalized world. This episode will challenge you to commit and not be lukewarm in your outlook about birth so that you …
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SHOW NOTES Today's show is a recap of all the wonderful things that happened in 2023 and a preview into our journey in 2024. Helpful Links: 2 WAYS TO WORK WITH LORI: --> Sign up HERE for the Your Birth, God's Way Online Christian Childbirth Course! This is a COMPLETE childbirth education course with a God-led foundation taught by a certified nurse-…
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SHOW NOTES Are you a hearer of this podcast or are you a doer? If you want to have different results with your pregnancy than the norm, it's time to commit to making some real change in the new year. Helpful Links: Now YOU can have access to the entire Christian childbirth course conducted LIVE this summer! Sign up HERE for the Your Birth, God's Wa…
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SHOW NOTES A majority of OBs and medwives across the country will be loading up labor & delivery units this week with inductions to try to get their patients delivered before Christmas. But is this truly an indication for induction? Today's episode is all about this topic. Helpful Links: Now YOU can have access to the entire Christian childbirth co…
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SHOW NOTES Shoving a stack of papers in your face and asking you to sign on the dotted line is NOT informed consent, but that is what takes place on nearly every labor and delivery floor in every hospital in America. Informed consent is about so much more than just signing a form. This episode digs into what informed consent is and how to get it wh…
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SHOW NOTES If your birth attendant wants to do what's called an "artificial rupture of membranes" also called "AROM" or they may just say they want to break your water...should you let them? Today's episode is going to help you understand what it means and whether you should consent to it. Helpful Links: ** USE COUPON CODE "BDAY" AT CHECKOUT NOW TH…
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It's Christmas time (again?!?!) and with that comes time around family and people you might not normally see. Something about you being pregnant means people love to tell you all about their horror stories from their pregnancies. They'll tell you they didn't dilate or that they tried to give birth naturally but couldn't or how they would've died if…
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Oh sister, we’re getting vulnerable & going deep here. The tough truth is that it doesn't matter how fit we are, or how much fitness we're able to maintain, if we're imprisoned by it. For those of us who want to maintain our health & fitness and take pride in it, it can be hard to find the right balance. The holidays are a time when society speaks …
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How do we keep up our healthy habits & nutrition during the Thanksgiving & Christmas celebrations? Last episode we dove into 8 simple but powerful ways to find balance in staying on track with your goals while enjoying the holiday celebrations. This Part 2 focuses on the 7 biggest mistakes you may be making when approaching the holiday season, and …
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How do we keep up our healthy habits & nutrition during the Thanksgiving & Christmas celebrations? This is Part 1, where we focus on 8 simple but powerful ways to find balance in staying on track with your goals while enjoying the holiday celebrations (no, it’s not by counting macros or tracking everything you eat) Pop in those headphones as you pr…
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