Meet Katie Garner SHERIDAN: I’m so excited to welcome Katie Garner to The Gift of Giving Life podcast today. I have known Katie for a eight or nine years. When I first met Katie, she was starting to work on some Adam and Eve paintings. She has gone on to do a lot of pregnancy, […]
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My titles never can capture all the awesomeness of my interviews. I love that a hymn helped her to have courage to move forward through her fears. After her preemie was born at 26 weeks via classical cesarean, having another baby was high risk and doing a VBAC even a higher risk. I love the
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It seems like very General Conference I have my ears and heart open to, and searching for, messages about birth, womanhood and motherhood. They are topics that I can always rest assured will get addressed in some way during General Conference. This time my heart was especially touched by Elder Henry B. Eyring’s talk entitled
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Kayla knew from when she was a teenager she would have a boy and his name would be Jacob. It took her quite a bit longer than she expected to have him! He ended up being baby number 5! In this part of the interview you will hear about her first 6 births. Ranging from
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In today’s episode I interview Melissa and hear about her amazing birth experiences. She had 3 cesareans and then worked very hard to have a VBAC, and went on to have many VBACs after as well. 🙂 Sheridan: Welcome to The Gift of Giving Life podcast. And today I’m so excited to have Melissa here
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“Yea, and it came to pass that the Lord did visit us with assurances that he would deliver us; yea, insomuch that he did speak peace to our souls, and did grant unto us great faith, and did cause us that we should hope for our deliverance in him” (Alma 58:11).
Cherise is an Arizona Mother, Doula, Childbirth Educator, Placenta Crafter, and Creator of the marvelous “Big Baby Project” (a website full of empowering vaginal births of babies 9 lbs and over). I love how her story illustrates what I wrote about in my essay “Unity with Providers of Care” in The Gift of Giving Life. I love that Cherise continued to search and pray until she found the right care provider for her. -Lani
The Weight of My Decision, Caused Me to Doubt )Sacred Space for Birth, Part 1) Read More »
It was so fun to interview Jenifer, Heather’s co-author of God Comes to Women. In this first part of the interview she reflects on how God knew her timetable for having babies. How when she first was married she didn’t even want to have babies, but after 5 years she shifted. Then a surprise revelation
Something I used to frequently say regarding childbirth was that I was born in the last days because Heavenly Father knew I couldn’t handle a natural childbirth and knew I needed epidurals. It was something I would always joke about, but also really believed. I might be mentally strong, spiritually strong, but physically strong? No way. That was not for me. I wasn’t a hardy pioneer woman that pushed handcarts and gave birth along the Mormon trail. Heavenly Father knew me and knew my mental and physical limitations. Or so I thought.
How was Planning an Unmedicated Birth for My Own Spiritual Growth? – Episode 20 Read More »
By, Felice Austin I was pregnant and in need of support! When I became pregnant, I was in great need of information and comfort, but every source that I turned to lacked what I craved. I couldn’t call my mother, who died when I was a girl. I wasn’t getting any comfort from my husband,
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