One Flesh: Marriage, Sex, & Babies.

The Number One Missed Thing in Labor: Hormones

This episode explains why hormones are central to God’s design for birth and how your environment can help or hinder them. You will learn that the same hormones God gave for marital intimacy are at work in labor, so the kind of privacy and safety that helps sex also helps birth. You will hear how darkness, calm, and steady support make contractions more effective. You will also hear how stress, bright lights, and constant interruptions can slow things down. Husbands are encouraged to protect the room so mom feels safe and cared for. Need help walking through the first couple of weeks of pregnancy? Before choosing a provider or creating birth plans, start with something more important: a biblical foundation. You can visit https://surrenderbirth.com/guide for a free guide to start preparing.   Join the Surrender Birth Digest. We’ll send you a curated digest designed to help you prepare for birth with clarity, not fear. Each edition will help you cut through cultural noise and fear, and point you to practical biblical wisdom. Sign-up for free.   Become an OG supporter at patreon.com/surrenderbirth. A "pay-what-it's-worth" membership starting at $1. Among other perks, you're support helps carry out this mission: to provide the Church with consistent, biblically faithful teaching on God’s design for birth. Join our growing community!

Caring for Your Body in Pregnancy & Postpartum.

In this episode, the Surrender Birth team calls Christian couples to view pregnancy and postpartum care as an act of biblical stewardship. They name the two common ditches, indulging cravings under the banner of “eating for two” and idolizing the physique, and point to a faithful middle shaped by gratitude and self-control. The conversation offers simple, realistic practices, prioritize protein, build basic strength, choose walks, and keep meals uncomplicated, like eggs. Husbands are urged to lead with humble service, support nutrition and hydration, and protect shared rhythms. The aim is not perfection but obedience to God’s design, trusting Him to use ordinary faithfulness to prepare a mother’s body for birth and the season that follows. Need help walking through the first couple of weeks of pregnancy? Before choosing a provider or creating birth plans, start with something more important: a biblical foundation. You can visit https://surrenderbirth.com/guide for a free guide to start preparing.   Join the Surrender Birth Digest. We’ll send you a curated digest designed to help you prepare for birth with clarity, not fear. Each edition will help you cut through cultural noise and fear, and point you to practical biblical wisdom. Sign-up for free.   Become an OG supporter at patreon.com/surrenderbirth. A "pay-what-it's-worth" membership starting at $1. Among other perks, you're support helps carry out this mission: to provide the Church with consistent, biblically faithful teaching on God’s design for birth. Join our growing community!

Fertility in Marriage: Let the Lord Build the House

Children are a blessing, and the Lord opens and closes the womb, so Christian couples are called to receive life with faith and gratitude. From Psalm 127, the call is to let God build the house, resisting cultural pressure to control fertility and avoiding legalistic extremes. Within marriage, husbands and wives should pursue covenantal intimacy, not depriving one another except by mutual agreement for prayer, and seek wisdom together for any seasons of abstaining or pursuing conception. The core posture is surrender to Christ’s lordship, praying together, walking in unity, and stewarding family life in step with God’s design. Need help walking through the first couple of weeks of pregnancy? Before choosing a provider or creating birth plans, start with something more important: a biblical foundation. You can visit https://surrenderbirth.com/guide for a free guide to start preparing.   Join the Surrender Birth Digest. We’ll send you a curated digest designed to help you prepare for birth with clarity, not fear. Each edition will help you cut through cultural noise and fear, and point you to practical biblical wisdom. Sign-up for free.   Become an OG supporter at patreon.com/surrenderbirth. A "pay-what-it's-worth" membership starting at $1. Among other perks, you're support helps carry out this mission: to provide the Church with consistent, biblically faithful teaching on God’s design for birth. Join our growing community!

Children as Blessings: Do We Really Believe It?

In this episode, Chip and Dani wrestle with what Scripture actually says about children and challenge common cultural and even church-influenced views that treat children as burdens. Drawing on personal experiences with their own families, as well as passages like Genesis 1, Psalm 127, and Ephesians 6, they reflect on how God views children as a blessing, a heritage, and a reward. Together, they invite Christian couples to ask whether their own views of children align more with cultural convenience or with God’s Word. Need help walking through the first couple of weeks of pregnancy? Before choosing a provider or creating birth plans, start with something more important: a biblical foundation. You can visit https://surrenderbirth.com/guide for a free guide to start preparing.   Join the Surrender Birth Digest. We’ll send you a curated digest designed to help you prepare for birth with clarity, not fear. Each edition will help you cut through cultural noise and fear, and point you to practical biblical wisdom. Sign-up for free.   Become an OG supporter at patreon.com/surrenderbirth. A "pay-what-it's-worth" membership starting at $1. Among other perks, you're support helps carry out this mission: to provide the Church with consistent, biblically faithful teaching on God’s design for birth. Join our growing community!

One Flesh: Marriage, Sex, & Babies.

Episode Mentions The Talk: 7 Lessons to Introduce Your Child to Biblical Sexuality [https://a.co/d/cX0itvF] Changes: 7 Biblical Lessons to Make Sense of Puberty [https://a.co/d/1TVgmwZ] Need help walking through the first couple of weeks of pregnancy? Before choosing a provider or creating birth plans, start with something more important: a biblical foundation. You can visit https://surrenderbirth.com/guide [https://surrenderbirth.com/guide] for a free guide to start preparing.   Join the Surrender Birth Digest. We’ll send you a curated digest designed to help you prepare for birth with clarity, not fear. Each edition will help you cut through cultural noise and fear, and point you to practical biblical wisdom. Sign-up for free. [https://surrenderbirth.com/birth-digest-signup/]   Become an OG supporter at patreon.com/surrenderbirth [https://www.patreon.com/c/surrenderbirth/membership]. A "pay-what-it's-worth" membership starting at $1. Among other perks, you're support helps carry out this mission: to provide the Church with consistent, biblically faithful teaching on God’s design for birth. Join our growing community!