I was due on the 11 Dec. Baby came one week early (38+3 weeks so not premature). When I started having contractions, I thought I was having braxton hics. My husband did not believe it so much so he ignored me and went to bed (we’ve had two children before this baby so he has experience in my birth pangs. He has never slept off again before). When he woke up, we went for walks twice, I ate, we were laughing through the “braxton hics”. I didn’t believe it was labour despite having my plug come out etc. Up until the two hours before birth it still felt like braxton hics. The midwife even made us stay home because I was speaking very calmly on the phone.

Micah 6:8 says “And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.” The Lord wants to walk with you through the birthing process and having faith that he will see you through is all you need.

Kierra

Written by a woman who has first-hand knowledge of infertility & miscarriage and then goes on to have FOUR children, 3 of them without pain, and includes plenty of testimonies from other women who have followed her lead, this book has helped me tremendously.

A friend at church gave me a tape of a lady talking about this book, all of the scriptures, and her personal experience. I listened to the cassette tape several times, wrote down all the scriptures and prayed over them every other day from the 5th month on. I prayed especially hard that they would not be born prematurely and would be born on God's appointed day for them. And also believing God for a painfree birth. It was the most wonderful pregnancy I ever had and I praise God so much for it! And I am so grateful to my friend for introducing this to me. At 5 months pregnant I was already beginning to be quite large, in fact I was as large as my sister-in-law who was 8 1/2 months along--and she wasn't tiny. It was getting to the point where I could not walk, and I had been a very active person. I didn't want to gain a lot of weight like I had with my first so I started taking communion at home each day and praying over the pregnancy and childbirth scriptures. After three days I could walk!!unfortunately i can not offer a better alternative. so if you are scared or struggling that you can have a good birthing experiancing, read it. (or get pregnant.) The word of God is Spirit and Life. I thank God for the powerful insight into all I can have faith for concerning my future pregnancies. I will definitely be listening to this book again once I conceive and multiple times afterwards. And I believe God that I will join in the testimony of others to celebrate my supernatural childbirths to the glory of God! I was skeptic at first but when I read that the book is based on the word of God I decided to go for it. BUT, praise God, through the whole process of labour and delivery I had no pain– not even with the episiotomy and stitches. Yes, it was hard work and intense – especially the last hour or so of contractions, and the pushing, but it wasn’t painful.

This verse is where it all started for Adam and Eve, and is quoted often in discussions about having children. God’s command to Adam and Eve was to have children to fill the earth. No matter how many times you may have heard this verse, it can always be a reminder that our pregnancy is a blessing from the Lord. Confessions and prayers for a supernatural conception, pregnancy, childbirth, and all circumstances surrounding each stage But to my great disappointment, I couldn’t find one. So we settled for a traditional birth class. And in some ways it was good. But in some ways, not so good. While it helped us understand the labor process a bit and some of what to expect, it also talked a lot about relying on Mother Nature and gave us a New Agey relaxation CD to listen to at night. If you’re thinking all this must have taken many long hours, let me give you the good news: All this happened in a span of just two and a half hours! Now isn’t that a miracle?And traditional birth classes are good. But they don’t approach the topic of birth from God’s perspective and they don’t empower a mom to birth her baby in God’s joy and presence. They don’t tell her what the Bible says about birth and that childbirth is a crazy, extravagant love gift that God wants to BLESS her with! They don’t teach her how to partner with God in the process or how to prepare spiritually. Which is too bad because above all, giving birth is a SPIRITUAL event! Much more than a medical event. Afterwards, I did wonder about the pain-free bit. Did I really have no pain? Maybe the intensity of the contractions is what people call pain, I thought. That evening I got my normal inconsistent contractions. (For the past four weeks, I had contractions almost every single evening!) My body was getting so worn out. It was the hardest last four weeks of pregnancy I ever had. Another factor was probably because she was the largest baby I had! So, that night, I again questioned whether or not my body was actually entering into labor. My husband and I stayed up watching shows on Netflix to wait it out and see if my contractions progressed. Nothing did, so finally at midnight, we decided to go to bed.