Welcome to a new season of Holy Wild Birth, which also represents a revitalization and recommitment to this podcasting project.

In this casual conversation with Brooke and Lauren, you'll hear all about what we have in store for you! One of those things is this new "genre" of episode where we offer you our "Cup of Tea" and simply jabber about things going on for us or of interest to us.

In this inaugural "cup of tea" episode, we chat about:

• That we aren't actually drinking tea
• Our branding photo fails
• How cool it is to have teenagers
• Relationship to light
• Brooke's milestone birthing and Lauren's anticipated milestone birthday
• Dark Parks
• Remodeling the prenatal room
• Growing community around the podcast
• Quitting social media
• A way of organizing information
• and more!

Mentioned in this episode:

• Lore Wilbert social media challenge — Let's Opt Out of Social Media Together

• Zettlekasten - What's a Zettelkasten?

• Lauren’s Prenatal Room Pinterest Collage - My prenatal room | Room, Save, Prenatal

• Stolen Focus - Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again

• Lauren’s glasses - VivaRays - Eco-friendly Blue light blocking glasses.

• Brooke’s newsletter - All The Birthy Things

• Podcast about relationship to light The Lie of 9 to 5: Fixing Your Circadian Rhythm | Thaddeus Owen

• Mighty Networks Community Rooted in Eden PMA

  
  

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  Connect:

  • Email us to say hi: holywildbirth@gmail.com

  • Apply to share your birth story on the podcast:

  Holy Wild Birth Podcast Guest Application

  • Become a holy, wild birthkeeper with us in the Hearthmother Journey

  
  

  From Lauren:

  • Midwifery consultations: Email rootedinedenpma@gmail.com

  
  

  From Brooke:

  • Courses for homebirth/freebirth mamas

  • Newsletter

  
  

  Intro and Outra Music Credit -
  Betty Dear By Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

Elizabeth’s free birth story includes surprises and grief so entwined with one another that they are inseparable. Be ready to smile with delight and cry with each twist and turn in her story. As Elizabeth wrote when she applied to be a guest, “It is honestly a wild story that is heartbreaking but also beautiful and full of God’s handiwork. A story of how God can use the worst circumstances for good.”

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We ran out of time while we were recording, but Elizabeth wanted to add this detail as a finishing thought:

“We didn't get into everything with Lilli which is fine but I wanted to share that she did get to go be with Hugh. We had them lying together in his NICU bassinet as much as possible. And they were baptized together in the hospital, and it was a beautiful mini service, we sang a hymn and everything which I wasn’t expecting at all, but the pastor who came was great.”

BIRTH STORY DISCLAIMER:

The choices, beliefs and opinions of the mamas sharing their stories are as individual as the storyteller herself and do not necessarily reflect the beliefs or recommended choices of Lauren and/or Brooke.

Connect:

• Email us to say hi: holywildbirth@gmail.com
• Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: Fill out the form
• Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: http://sisterbirth.com/podcast-guest
• Become a holy, wild birthkeeper with us inside Hearthmother Journey
• Hang out with us in our private community (off Facebook): https://anointed-birth.mn.co/

From Lauren:

• Instagram
• Midwifery consults: Email rootedinedenpma@gmail.com

From Brooke:

• Trust God, Trust Birth Workshop - a 5-part high-level roadmap to a confident home birth (pay what you can)
• Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop - a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox
• Embrace Birth Journey - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation (courses + private community)

Holy wild births begin with holy wild conceptions. In this episode, Lauren and Brooke are diving into a holistic, multi-faceted conversation about what it looks like to nourish the soil of our wombs to be ready to grow new life. We apply the steps in The Way of the Hearthmother, too.

Whether you’re in the stage of life when you’re looking forward to a hopeful pregnancy, in between babies and looking to replenish, or simply want to have vibrant fertility because it’s a marker of good health overall, this episode is for you!

Mentioned in this episode:

• Find A Spring - Use Find A Spring to visit the best cold and hot springs

• Clean, Mineral Rich Restructured Water Options: Spring water, Spring Aqua, Live Pristine, Radiant Life, Pure Effects Filter

• Nourishing fertility course (Nourishing Fertility )

• Wild Pastures (but local farms are always best) — Wild Pastures | Pasture-Raised Beef, Pork, & Chicken at The Lowest Prices (referral link)

• Discover your mineral status by running an HTMA with Lauren

• Polyester pants on dogs study (Male & Female Fertility Optimization • Olivia Mitchell on Instagram: "Great post here from @beautiful_holistic "They put polyester pants on dogs—and their fertility vanished. Hormones crashed. Sperm count dropped. The female dogs? They couldn’t conceive. Once the polyester came off, everything returned to normal. Now look around. We’re living in tight, synthetic clothing every day—leggings, underwear, bras—wrapped in plastic 24/7. These fabrics leach hormone-disrupting chemicals and microplastics straight into our skin, right over our reproductive organs. It’s not just fashion—it’s fertility warfare." What are your thoughts on this?? 👇🏼" )
  Find the actual studies here & here

• Listen to “Living as Cyclical Beings” Podcast Episode

• Katie Bowman’s work on Nutritious Movement

  
  

  Email us to say hi: holywildbirth@gmail.com

  Hang out with us in the Rooted In Eden PMA (off-facebook, private community)

  Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: Fill out the form

  Get on the waitlist for the next cohort of Hearthmother Journey

  Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: sisterbirth.com/podcast-guest

  From Lauren:

  Instagram

  Midwifery consults: Email rootedinedenpma@gmail.com

  From Brooke:

  Instagram

  Trust God, Trust Birth Workshop - a 5-part high-level roadmap to a confident home birth (pay what you can)

  Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop - a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox

  Embrace Birth Journey - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation (courses + private community)