When Birth Doesn't Go To Plan | Ep. 26

Risen Motherhood

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 6.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2016

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

A number of scenarios can lead to disappointment after childbirth, especially when you compare your real-life experience to your carefully-crafted plans. You're grateful for the sweet baby in your arms, but sometimes that doesn't completely silence the lurking questions you have about your childbirth. "Could it have gone better? Should I have made different choices? Did I do something wrong?" In today's episode, Emily and Laura discuss their own disappointments in childbirth and how hoping in God's good plans helped them find peace. Freedom comes when we realize we are not defined by our birth story, but our Savior.

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0:00.0	Motherhood is hard. One second, we think we're doing a good enough job and the next we feel
0:09.8	like the worst mom on the planet, which is why we need the refreshing truth of the gospel
0:14.9	to be repeated over and over, giving us hope in the everyday moments. So mama, whether
0:20.9	you're sipping cold coffee or doing a sink full of dishes, we hope you'll find true,
0:25.9	encouragement and laughter here. This is the Risen Motherhood Podcast. Thanks for joining us.
0:37.3	Hey guys and welcome to another episode of Risen Motherhood. I am here with my lovely sister-in-law,
0:43.1	Emily Jensen. Hello. So this week we are talking about birth plans again. We're actually talking
0:49.9	about when birth doesn't go according to plan. If you tuned in last week, we were talking about
0:56.5	making the plan when we do that and how as we make our plan, it's a good thing to
1:05.6	I don't know, make decisions and think about what we want in our birth and what we want to look
1:09.0	like or what medical care we want, but at the same time we really and can't help or trust in anyone
1:14.6	but God. So yeah, this week we're going to be talking about when it doesn't go according to
1:20.6	the plan, which happens for I think I looked at some sad, it was like 70% of women, it doesn't go
1:25.0	like, you know, according to their plan. Exactly. And I think that's a super common experience. I've
1:30.6	just feeling, even if you didn't have like a super hard birth or a super unusual experience and
1:37.7	maybe you had, you know, good medical care, there can still be that feeling of like disappointment
1:42.8	that you're like, I gave into the epidural and I said I wasn't going to or, you know, maybe you
1:49.0	knew you were going to do that, but it just took so much longer than you thought or maybe,
1:53.9	you know, a family member stepped in the room that you didn't really want there or your husband
1:58.8	said the wrong thing and you're not happy about it. So I think there can just be, I don't know,
2:04.1	there's like a million examples like that. Yeah, it's hard to deal with afterwards. Exactly,
2:08.8	it's funny because it doesn't have to be like this huge thing. I mean, I've even just heard
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