IF MAMA AIN’T HEALTHY (AIN’T NOBODY HEALTHY) - Christian Wellness, Metabolic Health, Functional Health, Christian Women’s Functional Health Coaching - formerly YOUR BIRTH, GOD’S WAY

The holidays are a time to come together and reconnect with family.  It's time to slow down and enjoy your blessings.  It's sadly also a time for a lot of stress for families, especially new moms.  Today I'm going to give you some tips on how to navigate this time with your head held high.   Helpful Links: Now YOU can have access to the entire Christian childbirth course conducted LIVE this summer...

So many of you have worked so hard to prepare for the labor and birth you want to have so you can work with God's design to do things the right way.  You have your beautiful birth....but then you have a new baby in your arms and the doctor says something isn't quite as it should be with your baby.....NOW WHAT?  Is it really wrong?  Do you need to do something?  If you do, are you setting yourself...

SHOW NOTES: Today we're going to talk about some things you need to think about and know to stay healthy during flu and cold season.   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 Way Online Christian Childbirth Course - Replay Edition !  This is a COMPLETE childbirth education course with a God...

SHOW NOTES   So you tell your doctor that you want to decline something they routinely recommend and they ask you for a study to back up why you're making that choice.  Here's my question -- since when do we need a study to back up sticking with what's normal??  God made women to give birth uninterrupted and without intervention.  That is the way it has been since the beginning of time.  Rather th...

SHOW NOTES The placenta is an amazing organ that God creates in us at the beginning of a new pregnancy and gets rid of immediately after the baby is born. It is the lifeline for the baby and performs a plethora of functions to support the baby's life while in utero. Today we're going to talk about how the placenta forms, what the placenta does, and how to best manage the delivery of the placenta a...

The world says bottle feeding formula to your baby is easier than breastfeeding.  But this is just one more lie the world tells us to take us away from our God-given purpose and design as His daughters nourishing the next generation to optimum health and strength!  STOP believing the lies!  Breastfeeding when properly supported is easy and LESS time-consuming than bottle feeding. In this brief bon...

Did you know you CAN nurse two babies at once?  It's hard to find good information out there on tandem nursing because so few people do it, but many women face the decision!  If you're wanting another baby and you're still nursing one or if you are already pregnant and you've got one still breastfeeding, this episode is going to encourage and help you very much!       Sign up HERE for Feeding Your...

SHOW NOTES  Life can be so distracting. The devil doesn't need to make us believe in some other god or even worship him to get us off track in our walk with God. All he has to do is distract us with whatever works just enough for us to take our eyes off of the one TRUE God. We are so vulnerable to suggestion during pregnancy due to fear of the unknown that Satan often lures us into being distracte...

SHOW NOTES In this mini-episode, I share my thoughts on breastfeeding and nursing our babies, the way God designed us perfectly to do.        Helpful Links:   Sign up HERE for Feeding Your Baby God's Way, a LIVE Breastfeeding Intensive Workshop being held online on October 24, 2023 at 6:30pm!!   Sign up HERE for the Your Birth, God's Way Online Christian Childbirth Course - Replay Edition !  This...

If you had a c-section in the past and you want a vaginal birth this time, the medical world treats you like you're one big accident waiting to happen. They inundate you with fear and scare tactics.  But you know God made you to have babies vaginally regardless of what happened in the past....but HOW when it seems there are obstacles everywhere you turn?  Inside this episode, we look at some pract...

Far too many women find themselves having to choose between having a vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) or a repeat c-section when they have another baby after having the first cesarean section. Last episode we looked at the reasons that a c-section might be needed along with the reasons it is NOT needed. But if that is already in the past for you and you're now being faced with this big decision...

Helpful Links: Sign up HERE for the Your Birth, God's Way Online Christian Childbirth Course - Replay Edition !  This is a COMPLETE childbirth education course with a God-led foundation taught by a certified nurse-midwife with over 20 years of experience in all sides of the maternity world.  Learn more or sign up HERE !   Sign up for your PERSONALIZED Pregnancy Coaching Midwife & Me Power Hour...

A large portion of the emails I get from you revolve around issues stemming from c-sections. Some moms want to have a VBAC, but they can't find a practitioner or hospital who will support their choice. Others have been scared into thinking cesarean sections are safer than vaginal births. No matter what the issue, the fact that a third of births in the United States happen in the OR is a big proble...

Inside this episode, you're going to get a first-hand look into what home birth is like from a certified professional midwife named Rachel Clark ( Harvest Midwifery ) who provides care to women choosing to give birth at home.  She details her training, what she brings to a birth, and what care looks like in her practice.  While this is just one CPM's perspective and way of doing things, I think it...

Inside this episode, you're going to get a first-hand look into what home birth is like from a certified professional midwife named Rachel Clark ( Harvest Midwifery ) who provides care to women choosing to give birth at home.  She details her training, what she brings to a birth, and what care looks like in her practice.  While this is just one CPM's perspective and way of doing things, I think it...

Sometimes with all the technology that's available and all the testing and all the screening, we as mamas start to think that knowing all this stuff means that everything is going to be OK.  We really want to hang onto that because no mama wants to think about losing a baby, either during pregnancy or after.  We're all terrified of it on some level.  But I need you to know....that security that we...

DISCLAIMER -- The audio on this episode is less than desirable!  I was driving home and was too excited to wait to record so i did it while in the car.  Please forgive the bad audio and road noise. This past weekend I was honored to be able to attend the first annual Twins / Breech Conference hosted by Nathan Riley, OBGYN of Beloved Holistics in Louisville, Kentucky.  I was surrounded by more than...

Giving birth at home is the best way for most moms to give birth whether they realize it or not.  Most moms can have a natural birth safely and comfortably at home given the right preparation and support.  But what if I told you that the best part of home birth is not the "birth" part at all....it's other things that might not be quite so obvious.  There are many things you have to deal with durin...

For nearly 10 months your baby has been attached to you by the umbilical cord. That cord has been the baby's lifeline, pumping oxygen and nutrients in, and processing waste products back out to your body to get rid of. After birth, its job is seemingly over....but not so fast....there's a reason to let it hang in there just a little bit longer and today we're going to talk about why.   This episod...

When you witness a birth that has taken place in it's natural way without intervention, and then you stay around to witness the hours and days after the birth, and then you consider the months before the birth...the beautiful symphony of events that you've witnessed might just overwhelm you.  The sheer amount of things that had to go right for any of it to continue to happen is mind boggling.  The...

When you're pregnant, your hair likely thickened into a beautiful mane of hair so glossy and beautiful it might have seemed too good to be true.  Sadly, it was.  There are hormonal changes during pregnancy that explain why hair thickens the way it does.....and those same hormones also explain the sad reality known as postpartum hair loss.  Many women have no idea it's coming and it can be pretty s...

Last week we took a mental walk through nature during the introduction to consider how animal birth looks and we found animals in all sorts of positions, but none were on their backs.  This week I want us to go on a little bit of a different mental walk.  Let's take a walk through Bible times and consider where birth was happening.  Do we find women going to outside facilities to give birth where...

If you go on a walk through nature and happen upon an animal giving birth, what position will you find her in?  Will you find her upright, on her side, or on her back?  Well, she might be in a number of positions, but I can guarantee you that you won't find her on her back with her legs in stirrups in the air with a bunch of people looking at her naked rear with bright lights shining on her, that'...

Historically speaking, pregnant women have been excluded from clinical trials of new drugs and rightfully so because of the immense ethical concerns of exposing an unborn baby to unnecessary danger.  Now -- In our day and time where there is so little respect for unborn life, there is a push to test new drugs on pregnant women, but recently and not so recently there are stories emerging that prove...

Birth is an immensely JOYFUL event.  Our culture has conditioned us to view it as a painful, scary event, but it shouldn't be anything of the kind.  It is a beautiful rite of passage in which God uses us, the mothers, to create brand new humans. Inside this episode, we spend some time really enjoying the thought of what pregnancy is and should be, not what the world has turned it into.   ** Sign u...