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was reversed 4 months later) and I was never able to breast feed because of the powerful drugs I
had to take, not to mention the financial toll it has taken on my family. I know that I have to deal
with these issues and allow healing to take place. I used birth control and the morning after pill
in the past, all these I have never dealt with until I read your series. It has provided so much
hope and correction and delivering me from things that I have held onto because I felt that they
are too painful to deal with, but I know that there are people like you, Donnie McClurkin,
gcmwatch.com, and other ministries that speak the truth and encourage the saints to seek
Yahweh and that Yahweh has the power to heal and deliver. Thank-you Pastor Herrin.

Sincerely,

A Sister in Christ

Brother Herrin,

I can totally relate to this post. I have two girls and my first one was born in a hospital and the
second was a home birth. The difference was night and day. While researching for my home
birth I learned the exact same things that you stated about the part of hormones during labor,
and that was so amazing. I think one of the other ways that fear of the pain of childbirth is so
great is from the flood of lies in the world through media. Movies and TV shows over-dramatize
the labor experience as a situation that people have to freak out about. Spiritually from my
experience, it was a wonderful time to fully lean on the Father for everything and trust in the fact
that He provided me with everything to bring my child into the world. Now I am working on
having that mindset everyday and it seemed so much easier to be in that place in labor than it is
not being in labor!

Jane

Brother Joseph,

This series has been very enlightening. I wanted to share my experience regarding natural birth.
I have only one son, born through a C-section I wasn't counting on. I was given the drug to
stimulate contractions because I had none, which was excruciatingly painful, so much so that I
couldn’t hardly push and made it even worse. It took four+ hours of that pain without the pain
relief of the epidural (at the end I was begging for it!) until the monitoring showed the heartbeats
of my baby were not right and the C-section was decided.

After the birth, the baby just didn't latch to my breast, he just kept crying and sleeping, sleeping
and crying, and I had no colostrum or milk for days. The worst thing they did at the clinic was
hand me a baby bottle with formula. My son never wanted the breast again! Of course I only
learned about the side effects of the epidural AFTER the birth.

If I had to live through this again, I would reject the uterine stimulants and pray for the
contractions to come naturally and I would try not to get the epidural shot unless the doctor said
a C-section was absolutely necessary (if my baby's life was at risk).