Spiritual Lessons from Her C-Sections
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- Опубліковано 21 кві 2024
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Today I sit down with my dear friend Emily Wilson @emwilss , author, speaker, musician, and UA-camr, to discuss the lessons we’ve learned from our birth stories. The two of us have due dates a few weeks apart, both with our third child and our first girl. We discuss the difficulty and beauty of having a different body during pregnancy and after the birth of our children, spiritual lessons we’ve learned from giving birth, the role of men in birth, considerations for women who don’t have a healthy support system, and much more.
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I’ve had 4 c sections. My last one this February was probably my best experience. I went to the hospital earlier that day for an appointment with my specialist. On my way to that appointment, I prayed that God would bring the pregnancy to an end, with a positive outcome (a healthy baby). I was 37 weeks and a few days, but I struggled a lot with anxiety over my baby’s wellbeing as well as over my incision/uterus (fear of rupture). I feared stillbirth most of all since I had gestational diabetes and it seemed like my baby lived to sleep during her weekly movement check ups. At that appointment, the perinatal doctor discovered that the amniotic fluid was dangerously low. They said my ob would call me either that day or the next to come in and deliver. On my drive back home, not even 5 minutes out from the hospital, my obgyn’s office called me and told me to return to the hospital. We had our daughter about 6 hours later after I was prepped. It turned out that my doctor saw a uterine window (very concerning). Had we waited till her 39-week “due” date (c-section date), things could have become catastrophic in the days leading up both for her and me. Dangerously low amniotic fluid and a very transparent uterine window.
Needless to say, God is soooo gracious and good! He heard my prayer and saw my anxiety. My song throughout the last weeks of my pregnancy was “Firm Foundation” by Cody Carnes 🥰. I got to hear it during the delivery. It was overall one of the sweetest moments. I cried tears of happiness during the delivery especially because I was able to be awake and see her as soon as she was born. With my 3rd daughter’s delivery, the anesthesia didn’t completely settle so I was given some sleeping gas so I wouldn’t feel the pain. I woke up from that operation with neither my husband nor our daughter in sight. It was very upsetting for me and I felt guilty for several days for not opting to pull through the pain so that I would be awake when she was born.
Having had very different experiences each time, I can now say that I’ve learned that rather than be stigmatized, c-sections should be viewed as God’s common grace to us. Not the easy way out but sometimes the only way out for a healthy outcome for both baby and mom. I used to feel like less of a mother/woman because of my c-sections. Now I’ve learned that God is the One who defines my personhood and womanhood. He is the One who made me a mother by giving me children. That’s what makes a woman a mother, not how she has her baby or if her baby is biological.
I felt angels ministering and guiding my doctors during my second c-section. I was so at peace. My first c-section was an emergency but when it came down to it, I got calm and began to minister to myself that the Lord would be watching over me ❤. The love of the Father 🥰👑✨.
God bless you sister Lila. Giving my life to Christ when I was a teenager was the best decision. My goal is to try to help young women that was born in 2000 with my generation so they could find godly conservative Christian hubsands in their lifes.
That is a brilliant plan and will be very fruitful for you😊
That is such a lovely plan and it will bring forth so much fruit !😊
So grateful for my C-section. It has given me a healthy son that couldn't survive a vaginal birth. LOVE C-section!!
I’m going to have my 8th c section in August. Honestly my first three felt worse than any of my other ones. My 7th c section was with twins. I’m thankful to live in a day and age where this is a possibility and how I am brining life into the world. It isn’t what I would choose, but I have had such smooth sailing even with recovery, so for that I’m thankful. ❤
Wow this is amazing. Praise God. Just had my 3rd and wanting more children but have that fear in the back of my head.
@@Maverick-zy7yu that’s because many doctors try to tell you the risks go up after three but if you look statistically, many women don’t have more than three, and the risk is only increased by 1.8%. If your other c sections have been great with no serious complications there is no need to think future ones won’t be too. I’ve got a great team of doctors who respect the fact that I have a large family and in this day and age that can be hard to find. All the best to you! You can do it ❤️
Where is the full interview?! Want to see the whole video!
I heard a lady saying she didn't want children, but might adopt someday. But if she got pregnant; she would scrape that thing out. I thought how arrogant and duplicitous that you would take someone else's child who truly valued life, but would krill your own. I hope she never gets the chance to adopt. I would rather a child go to a couple who wanted a child without any disdain for fetal life.
Can I just say that phrase 'rearranged my organs' is a euphemism for something else 😂
Yea, you're not the only one who noticed that... But it's sad the Internet has destroyed us so much... Lila, be aware "rearranged my organs" is a term used online referring to sex
I’ve never heard that and it’s sad this is said and joked about.
@@bennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnwhat? It is? I’ve never heard that 😂
@@davyrantucci just telling you what I've heard.. clearly I'm not the only one who's familiar with the term
@@bennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn lol ya that’s funny!
Eek, no way do I trust doctors like I trust God! The rate of unnecessary c-sections has me so beyond suspicious.
There is only one victim.
Do you think there's an adult human being in the world that doesn't know where they came from?
Is there an adult human being that actually believes that they were grown in a Cabbage Patch or they were delivered by a stork in a little cloth pouch.
Do you think there's a human being in the world that hasn't heard of an adoption?
There is only one victim.
Everyone else in the process is a conscious intelligent adult.
This host is so judgemental. You can feel it just watching her...