Ep. 21: Theo's Birth Story (Installment 3)
M Is for Mama Podcast
Abbie Halberstadt
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Trucking right along with our birth story series brings us to Theo's birth, which was part "dream birth" and part, "Why, Lord??!"
If I know anything about birth at this point, it's that it will always be predictably unpredictable. The predictable things for me: going "late" (usually 42 weeks), long hiccupy prodromal periods, and (almost always) 5-7 hours of active labor. The rest? Well, who knows what will happen?
The thing I know I can rely on, though: God is good, and He will never leave my side, no matter how convinced I become that I really will be the first women to ever keep her baby in utero forever!
Enjoy, friends!
P.S. Remember: This is the last podcast I'm releasing until we return from our big European adventure. But I'll jump right back in with birth stories when I return.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the MS-Mama Podcast. I'm your host, Abby Halberstadt, happy wife, |
| 0:10.3 | Mama to 10 Bible Believing Christian. |
| 0:12.8 | And we're just keeping on rolling with the birth stories today, |
| 0:15.4 | but I have something really funny to tell you, |
| 0:17.1 | which is that I am recording this. |
| 0:18.7 | I don't know how funny it is, |
| 0:20.0 | maybe a little bit more insane, |
| 0:22.4 | but I'm recording this about 30 minutes before we head out on a giant trip to Europe. |
| 0:28.0 | Our family planned this trip about four years ago and then it was about to come to fruition and just like so many of |
| 0:36.1 | you have experienced our trip got cancelled because of COVID because we were supposed to leave |
| 0:40.9 | about two weeks after everything started shutting down. |
| 0:43.3 | So we kind of crossed our fingers and prayed and held on with anticipation that maybe we would be able to transfer our |
| 0:49.6 | tickets. Air France was who we had our tickets through and they were very accommodating and |
| 0:54.7 | thankfully we were able to cancel Airbnb rentals and all the things not all the |
| 1:00.3 | things but most of the things that we had books because there were allowances for COVID. |
| 1:05.2 | Well, it didn't so happen that we were able to rebook it in the time frame that we needed |
| 1:11.4 | to be able to use our Air France tickets, and so we'd kind of kiss that dream goodbye and more content with it. |
| 1:16.7 | We had two-year-old newborn twins. We had 10 kids total at this point when we have been traveling before it would have been eight kids. |
| 1:23.4 | It just felt like maybe the Lord was saying no and we were accepting of that though disappointed |
| 1:28.3 | obviously well about maybe June of last year so a little less than a year ago because today is May 1st. |
| 1:34.7 | Oh my goodness. |
| 1:35.7 | It's just May 1st has been coming for such a long time for our family because it's been the |
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