Surrender Birth

Abby Schweitzer, Tim Schweitzer, Dani Brown, Chip Brown
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A birth podcast for Christian couples (yes, men too!) who want to prepare for pregnancy and childbirth with biblical clarity. Whether you’re navigating your first pregnancy or seeking to align your birth plans with a biblical worldview, this show will equip both women and men to prepare with clarity, unity, and trust in Christ.

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  1. 11/11/2025

    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!

    52 phút

  2. 28/10/2025

    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!

    42 phút

  3. 14/10/2025

    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!

    43 phút

  4. 30/09/2025

    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!

    35 phút

  5. 16/09/2025

    One Flesh: Marriage, Sex, & Babies.

    Episode Mentions The Talk: 7 Lessons to Introduce Your Child to Biblical Sexuality Changes: 7 Biblical Lessons to Make Sense of Puberty 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!

    42 phút

  6. 02/09/2025

    Birth Philosophies: Their Differences & Limitations

    In this episode, Abby and Dani discuss three common birth philosophies often seen in our culture: the technocratic, holistic, and humanistic models of care. While each carries its own assumptions and practices, none of them begin with God’s design for birth. Christian couples are reminded that the foundation must be biblical principles, not cultural philosophies. From there, methods such as hospital, home, or natural birth can be approached with wisdom and prayer. 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!

    32 phút

  7. 19/08/2025

    No Neutrality in Birth: Standing on God's Design

    In this episode, the Surrender Birth team addresses three common mindsets that can pull Christian couples away from God’s design for birth: passivity, the illusion of control, and fear. Drawing from Scripture, they explain how cultural influences often shape birth decisions without couples even realizing it. They challenge listeners to reject worldly thinking, steward their role as parents from the moment of conception, and filter every decision through God’s Word. This conversation calls husbands and wives to seek unity, embrace biblical stewardship, and trust in the Lord’s sovereignty over every aspect of childbirth. 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!

    31 phút

  8. 05/08/2025

    Meet Your Hosts: The Browns

    Welcome to the Surrender Birth, a podcast dedicated to helping Christian parents prepare for birth by encouraging, equipping, & educating them. In this episode, Chip and Dani Brown tell their story. They describe how they met, married at a young age, and began their journey through pregnancy and childbirth. The conversation traces the dramatic change in their understanding of children, birth, and God’s design for family life. Their experiences range from epidural hospital deliveries to peaceful water births at home; they also recall a surprise twin pregnancy and a five-minute hospital delivery that barely felt like labor. Beyond these birth stories, they offer a testimony of sanctification as pride was removed, comforts were surrendered, and their view of ministry was reshaped through family life.   *** LINKS *** Fathers: With every new podcast episode we release, you’ll get practical questions to help you lovingly lead your wife. Find them here. 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!

    41 phút

  9. 22/07/2025

    Meet your hosts: The Schweitzers

    Welcome to the Surrender Birth, a podcast dedicated to helping Christian parents prepare for birth by encouraging, equipping, & educating them. In this episode, you get to hear more about Tim and Abby Schweitzer. They share their personal story as a Christian couple walking through nine very different births, ranging from a first-time C-section to home births, hospital stays, and even a delivery that followed a major accident. They go beyond just recounting these experiences and explain how God reshaped their convictions about children, family, and Biblical stewardship. Scripture and faithful teaching gradually transformed their assumptions about birth control and cultural expectations, leading them to practically change how they were living life. Need help walking through the first couple 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. *** LINKS *** Fathers: With every new podcast episode we release, you’ll get practical questions to help you lovingly lead your wife. Find them here.   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!

    41 phút

  10. 15/07/2025

    God’s Design for Birth: Building a Biblical Foundation

    Welcome to the Surrender Birth, a podcast dedicated to helping Christian parents prepare for birth by encouraging, equipping, & educating them. In this inaugural episode, Tim, Abby, Chip, and Dani introduce Surrender Birth and explain why childbirth preparation should be a shared experience between both husband and wife. The hosts urge couples to start with God’s original design for birth before comparing methods or interventions so their decisions flow from worshipful obedience rather than cultural habits. Need help walking through the first couple weeks of pregnancy? Before you choose a provider or put together birth plans, start with something more important: the Biblical foundation. You can visit https://surrenderbirth.com/guide for a free guide to start preparing. Fathers: With every new podcast episode we release, you’ll get practical questions to help you lovingly lead your wife. Find them here. 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 here     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!

    24 phút
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A birth podcast for Christian couples (yes, men too!) who want to prepare for pregnancy and childbirth with biblical clarity. Whether you’re navigating your first pregnancy or seeking to align your birth plans with a biblical worldview, this show will equip both women and men to prepare with clarity, unity, and trust in Christ.

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  • Nhà sáng tạo
    Abby Schweitzer, Tim Schweitzer, Dani Brown, Chip Brown
  • Năm hoạt động
    2 N
  • Tập
    10
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    © 2011-2025 Surrender Birth
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