Untamed Birth

05/31/2026

For our tenth episode of The Birth Room Podcast, we did something a little different.
In this special Dadwives edition, we invited our very own husbands to join us in the birth room once again for a fun and lighthearted conversation about birth and what it’s really like supporting a woman through labor and birth.
Together, we cast a line into the bait bucket, testing the dads’ birth knowledge with trivia, definitions, and random questions while giving them an opportunity to share their own experiences and perspectives along the way.
Whether you’re a birth worker, an expecting parent, a nervous dad, or simply here for the laughs, this episode offers a unique look at birth through the eyes of the men who have walked beside us through it.
So grab your tackle box and join us for this special Catch of the Day: Dadwives Edition.
We hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed recording! Head to our YouTube channel or find us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify at The Birth Room Podcast

04/22/2026

It’s been quiet on here for some time, but certainly not still. The past few months have been full in so many beautiful and challenging ways. I’ve been behind the scenes, finishing Hearthmother Journey, building our online/hybrid childbirth course (Birth By Design), serving mothers and documenting all four B’s (bellies, births, babies, and beyond), creating a Woven in Birth small group Bible study for expecting couples (curriculum coming soon), and now, I am stepping into something completely new…

Hearthmother Midwifery Unschool (HMU).

This part feels bigger than I can even express to any of you. Because truthfully, I never set out to become a midwife. I never wanted that level of responsibility in the birth room. I was content to support, to witness, document, and educate, to walk alongside, to help bring birth back to what it was always meant to be, not what the world has made it. But step by step, the path kept unfolding, and the Lord has continued to stretch me.

Each time I stepped further into an aspect of the birth work ministry, He told me it wasn’t enough. When I began photographing what I saw was perfectly intricate and beautiful, He pushed me to doula. When I began supporting women unassisted, as I had done myself, He said “you’re not done.” As I journeyed through Hearthmother, He said “keep going.”

Further than I planned... Further than I thought I would ever go... Further than I said I was willing to go.

But here I am. Still learning, still being shaped, and still giving the Lord my yes. Even when it’s hard. The hardest thing I’ve ever had to keep saying yes to, in fact.

So I’m stepping into this next season with open hands, trusting the One who led me here in the first place. Because if this journey has taught me anything, it’s this:

We are never finished becoming what He calls us to be. We are forever students. In life, in death, and in birth. But birth… Holy. Wild. Birth… it is one of the greatest teachers of all. In God’s love for us, His desires for us, His plans for us. And I am ready to keep learning at His feet, and at the feet of the Hearthmothers before me.

11/13/2025

“Birth plans only go exactly to plan for unicorns”? Let’s talk about that. 🦄

I saw a post today claiming that birth plans never go to plan unless you’re a unicorn. That they’re cute in theory but basically meaningless once labor begins? Or, that you shouldn’t put too much stock in them, and you can pretty much guarantee your plan will go awry?

But here’s the thing:
Both of my unassisted births went exactly to plan. Not because I controlled every second… but because I created a plan rooted in physiology, trust, and environment instead of institutional protocol.

A birth plan isn’t a fantasy list of demands.
It’s a strategy for protecting the conditions your physiology needs in order to work. It’s the boundaries you set so you can labor undisturbed, the way your body was designed.

You can’t control labor, but you can absolutely control:
✨ who’s in your space
✨ what interventions you consent to (or don’t)
✨ the environment you create
✨ the energy and beliefs you bring with you
✨ the respect (or lack thereof) you’re willing to tolerate
✨ whether you birth in a system that overrides physiology or supports it

Birth is often times unpredictable, yet not. It’s “organized chaos.” And that’s exactly why your plan matters. If you don’t set your non-negotiables ahead of time, someone else will set them for you.

A birth plan is not about micromanaging your labor/birth. It’s about protecting:
• your sovereignty
• your nervous system
• your physiology
• your baby’s experience coming into the world

My births went to plan because my plan was about my environment. Not about forcing my body into a script or fitting my birth into a box or label.
Zero intervention.
Zero disruption.
Just birth doing what birth does when left alone.

And I would do it again in a heartbeat.

Birth plans aren’t for unicorns. Birth plans are for women who refuse to hand their power away by default.

And just to be clear: I’m not discounting the mothers who did deeply plan for a specific environment and still experienced something different.

The homebirth mother who transferred? That is not a failure.

The hospital-planned mom who accidentally birthed at home or in the car? That is not poor planning.

Those births were also physiologic, also valid, and also part of your story.

Because a birth plan isn’t a guarantee of the scenery. It’s the posture of mind, body, and spirit you carry into whatever unfolds.

And I’m also not saying you need a beautifully formatted, typed-out, three-page plan. I didn’t write a single “traditional birth plan” for my unassisted births. I simply knew what I wanted, I prepared responsibly, and my body did what bodies do: It birthed my babies.

Your body spends your entire pregnancy preparing your baby to be born. And then it just… does it. Because it’s physiology. It’s natural. It’s ancient. And yes, there are always exceptions, complexities, and unique circumstances.

Which is exactly why I don’t believe there are “unicorn” births at all. There are no unicorns in birth because every woman is a unicorn in birth. Every mother, every baby, every story is one-of-a-kind. That’s why we are usually so d*** proud of our birth stories! They’re all unique to US! Even in euphoric births, even in traumatic births.

Birth plans don’t exist for magical outliers.
Birth plans exist because you and your baby are already a once-in-history event, and your experience deserves to be honored as such.

11/03/2025

✨ New Episode ✨
What if birth is not just a process, but a posture of worship?

Zach and Shelby’s journey is a holy unfolding of love and grief, transparency and trust, faith and redemption. Through hospital birth, a peaceful home birth, a romantic birth center birth, an early miscarriage, and a faith-filled freebirth - they’ve walked through death, through life, and into the sacred wilderness of birth.

The birth of their second son and fifth baby was a full surrender to God. An act of worship, unity, and holy ground.

🎧 Her Birth As Worship
Now streaming on The Birth Room Podcast
Find us on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify

Apple Podcast Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-birth-room-podcast/id1836940696
Spotify Podcast Link: https://open.spotify.com/show/2aEkVujimtx1CgeBWxycEs
Youtube Link: https://www.youtube.com/

10/09/2025

The U.S. is in the midst of a maternal care crisis. Mortality and morbidity rates rise as interventions multiply. Nearly every woman in America has some level of birth trauma. This isn’t just medical failure, it’s spiritual warfare.

In a world where being radical is easier than being responsible, we get these two extreme ideologies that are contributing to the madness: The medical model that operates on impatience and sees birth as mechanical and transactional, and the free birth or die movement.

I want to be clear: I am not condemning free birth or hospital birth. Every woman has the God-given right to decide how and where she births. Many women, myself included, have had incredible, safe, and successful free births. And many women have had positive hospital birth experiences (though rare).

At the end of the day, we are our own greatest care providers. We may invite support from doctors, midwives, or birth attendants, but responsibility before God rests with us.

If you corrupt birth, you weaken the family. If you weaken the family, you destabilize society. And if you destabilize society, you leave God’s people vulnerable.

This is the maternal care reform we desperately need: not more machines, not more rules, not more pride. But a return to God’s way.

Birth is holy ground. And it’s time we treated it that way.

Read the full blog: “Why Women Keep Choosing Free Birth: The Maternal Care Crisis & Spiritual Warfare” — link in bio.

10/07/2025

✨ October Podcast Drop Day is here! ✨

This month on The Birth Room Podcast, we’re diving into two deeply personal and deeply needed conversations:

🎙️ My Birth Stories — the raw, redemptive journeys that shaped my calling as a birthkeeper and mother.

💊 Tylenol in Pregnancy, featuring Dr. Sandra Mathoslah Sayegh, a Doctor of Pharmacy and Master of Science in Nutrition and Integrative Health, helping us navigate the recent media storm with truth, wisdom, and faith.

These episodes remind us that discernment matters. That fear doesn’t have to lead the way. And that God’s design is always worth returning to.

Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or YouTube — new episodes live today. 🎧

Disclaimer:
✝️ We are not your care providers; all medical topics discussed are for education and encouragement only.



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09/21/2025

I have doula/doulatog/birth photographer availability for due dates beginning in late February. Shoot me a message and let’s see if our birth philosophies align!

09/11/2025

My heart is so very heavy. Tonight’s act of terrorism was evil and tragic. No matter what “side” you’re on, violence and the loss of life should never be tolerated or celebrated.

Let us not forget, this devastatingly heinous act of violence has taken a young husband and father from his wife and two young children. Praying they are surrounded with comfort, peace, and strength in this time of unimaginable loss.

09/11/2025

Tonight’s tragic events have stirred up a lot of emotions, and sadly I’ve even seen some people respond with laughter and celebration at the loss of life. This grieves me deeply. Especially seeing such a hateful response from fellow birth workers where the sanctity of life is such a huge part of our calling.

It reminds me of why it matters so much to be intentional about who you invite into your birth space. Birth is holy. The people present shape your memory of it forever… their beliefs, their words, and the spirit they carry will leave a mark.

I could never imagine entrusting my own most vulnerable moments to someone who dismisses the value of life or rejoices in violence against those they disagree with. And I would never want that for you, either.

If you are searching for birth support or photography and want to be surrounded by someone who believes children are to be cherished and should be protected, murder is wrong, and God holds the authority in the birth room, I am here. Your space deserves peace, safety, and reverence.

09/01/2025

✨ It’s here! ✨
The first three episodes of The Birth Room Podcast are officially LIVE.

We believe there can never be too many voices rising up to protect the sacredness of birth. Even with so many beautiful birth podcasts already out there, we’re adding our own stories, wisdom, and heart to the mix—because the good word deserves to spread far and wide.

🎧 You can listen or watch in 3 ways:
1. YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/?feature=shared
2. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-birth-room-podcast/id1836940696
3. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2aEkVujimtx1CgeBWxycEs

We’d love for you to tune in, share with a friend, and help us flood the world with stories that honor mothers, babies, and the holy design of birth.

Welcome to The Birth Room Podcast — a sacred space where birth, motherhood, and womanhood are honored in their fullness. We’re Sydney and Nichole—birth workers, mothers, and undisturbed birth advocates with a passion to elevate women's voices in The Birth Room—gathering to share unfiltered c...