358: HOME BIRTH STORY - Second Home Birth Abroad: Intentional, Faith-based and Precipitous with Amy Jo and JJ Mann

How can you be very intentional and faith-driven in your birthing plans? This is a big theme of our conversation with Amy Jo and JJ Mann, veterans of the Doing It At Home podcast. In our second interview with the couple, they share the details of their second home birth experience.  From Amy Jo: “We were living in Germany and "past due" (41+ weeks) with our second baby. The German law is pretty strict with going past your due date and so we were back on the same train as we were with our first daughter with trying all of the natural methods to help get labor started! After a night of Indian food, face masks, Rummikub, clary sage and a small amount of castor oil (we may have went overboard with trying all the things in one evening). I woke up at 6am to go use the restroom and hoped that labor would begin sometime that day. Little did I know our baby girl (we didn't know the gender at the time) would be coming to join us in less than an hour and a half and I wasn't even sure up until she was crowning that I was actually in labor! I woke up my husband once I saw bloody show (which is the only reason I let myself believe that we would be hopefully having a baby that day) and thirty minutes later our daughter was born!!! It was the supernatural labor and delivery we had been praying for. We texted our midwife at 7:14am to maybe come over and our baby came into the world at 7:27am, so of course she did not get there in time for the delivery. It was calm and peaceful and just my husband, me and my mother there while our 2-year-old slept soundly in her room.” Things we talk about in this episode: having a list of intentions for your home birth, language and culture barriers with birthing abroad, the power of prayer, how birth can be fun Links: Part 1 episode with Amy Jo and JJ: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/doing-it-at-home/id1153134918?i=1000468067966 Doing It At Home book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B098GVJ9KL?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860 Our website: https://www.diahpodcast.com/ DIAH YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGoKeBfEZ143sWU7V9I5Gdg DIAH Store: https://yoursuccessfulhomebirth.com/ DIAH Merch: https://bit.ly/3qhwgAe  Donate to DIAH: https://bit.ly/3qgm4r9 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices