Ep 335: A Homebirth Story of Faith, Fear, and Trusting Harder
About this episode
Tricia Prado shares her challenging journey through her seventh birth amidst family crises, emphasizing the importance of trust and community support.
What happens when you're preparing for birth while carrying far more than the weight of pregnancy? When your family is spread across the country, your husband's health is in crisis, and every plan you've made seems to unravel? This week, we're speaking with by Tricia Prado, a mother of seven whose journey into her seventh birth came during one of the most challenging seasons her family has ever faced. As her husband's health declined and their family became separated across multiple states, Tricia found herself learning a lesson that would carry her through both life and birth: trust harder. Episode Roundup: Fear often creates more suffering than the thing we're afraid of. Tricia shared the wisdom that pain itself won't destroy us, but fear of pain can become its own burden. Birth and life ask for the same thing: trust. Whether she was facing labor, separation from her husband, uncertainty about the future, or the challenges of postpartum, the invitation remained the same—trust harder. That doesn’t mean do more. It doesn’t mean try harder. It means take a look at where your faith lies. We aren't meant to walk difficult seasons alone. The women, family members, friends, and…
People in this episode
Host: Katelyn Fusco
Guest: Tricia Prado
Topics covered
- homebirth
- faith
- trust
- family challenges
- community support
- pregnancy
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- Ep 332: 42 Weeks and Learning to Wait
- Ep 331: From Cesarean Grief to a Healing Homebirth
- Ep 330: Why This Labor Nurse Chose Homebirth
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