Her first birth was filled with tension and pain from beginning to end — and it left her carrying trauma for 18 months.
The second time?
The morning labor began, a North Dakota blizzard kept her husband home until 10 a.m. — giving them an unexpected, sacred morning together as a family of three.
The birth itself was intense. Wildly intense.
But not painful.
She kept surrendering to each surge. At one point she thought, “If this gets worse, I’m not sure what I’ll do.”
And yet — it never turned into pain. Only pressure. Only power. Only peace.
Her daughter’s middle name is Psalm — a reminder that even when the psalmists walked through hardship, they always returned to the faithfulness of God.
This episode is about what happens when God doesn’t waste the hard story…
when He redeems it.
If you’ve ever felt broken by a birth experience — or wondered if healing is really possible — this conversation is for you.
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