222: Fifth Baby Home Birth Story // Natural Labor & Delivery

Now That We're A Family

Elisha and Katie Voetberg

Kids & Family, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

He is here! Woohoo! Wow. Is there anything better? What a miracle. What a pure blessing. Lionel Peter Voetberg was born on Sunday, July 23rd at 5:36 AM. 8lbs 11oz. God is so generous.

Is there a more glorious thing than being a vessel that carries, incubates, delivers, then sustains a person that bears the image of our great Creator and King? I cannot do that. Katie just did that. Mothers do that. That is incredible!

Thankfully our kiddos were sound asleep for the duration of the labor and delivery. Then, as they awoke, one by one, we got to witness unbridled excitement expressed in ways unique to each of their personalities. This has been the most celebratory child because of how much more our kids understand it and how they have been looking forward to it. They were so pumped to welcome this little guy into the family. It has made it really special and fun. We are a home of celebrants. New life is my favorite thing to celebrate.

We are rejoicing in God’s grace and faithfulness to our family.

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0:00.0	Okay guys, so we are back. We are recording real time. I hate to break it to you guys, but
0:05.8	over the last two weeks you've been seeing episodes that we pre-recorded because I very
0:11.4	obviously have a belly if you're watching on YouTube or last few episodes. And while those were
0:18.6	airing, I was actually at home resting up after having our baby, our fifth baby coming to join us
0:28.5	here on Earth. So anyways, this is real time though. This is like the week that we're recording
0:34.4	this is the week that you guys are seeing this. So everything is very real time as of the moment.
0:46.1	But now that we're a family podcast. How are you feeling, Alisha? Well, I feel great,
0:51.6	but I think more importantly, the question that everybody's wondering is how are you so amazing,
0:57.2	Katie? How are you so incredible? That's what I'm wondering. Now how are you feeling?
1:02.2	It's been, we've had such wonderful support. So as of recording this episode, we're at two and a half
1:07.0	weeks. And it has just been amazing with the support from my family, the support from our church
1:16.0	family, Alisha's family coming over or his parents coming over to visit. There have just been
1:23.5	blessings upon blessings over the last couple of weeks. And I'm just grateful, like incredibly
1:30.4	grateful and incredibly grateful for Alisha because he's been the biggest support through the whole
1:36.1	two and a half weeks. And his really just taken like if someone's going to be tired, it's him. He's
1:43.0	getting up early with the kids. He's taking care of everything that needs to be done. And it's really
1:49.0	allowed me to rest a lot more this time. I haven't been stressed or anxious or emotional. And I
1:56.2	think all of that comes down to the peace I feel that everything's under control with Alisha. So
2:03.0	thank you so much for that, Alisha. Oh, you're welcome. Thanks for saying that because I feel like
2:07.3	it's kind of going against a little bit of your instincts to stay down and keep resting like you
2:13.0	have been. And I feel like you're doing that for us. And so it doesn't, like it's not your
2:18.2	personality to take advantage of just being in bed and being, you know, being off your feet as
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