Pregnant, don’t know where to start? 

Meet Your Hosts: The Schweitzers
Jul 22, 2025

4 min read

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. Their testimony captures the sanctifying nature of parenthood and the beauty of trusting God’s design, even when the journey seems costly.

THE KEY

Takeaways

 

  • Pray through decisions together: Seek Scripture and ask the Lord for wisdom as you weigh caregivers, settings, and interventions, trusting that ignorance is not an excuse.

 

  • Reject cultural passivity: Evaluate common birth practices against Biblical principles instead of defaulting to “what everyone does.”

Questions

For the fathers

  • What do you think it would look like to view each child as a gift, not a burden? How would it change the way you interact with your wife during this time? If you have been seeing this time as a burden, rather than a blessing and a time to serve your wife. Repent. Receive God’s grace through His son, and walk faithfully.

  • What influences from our upbringing or church culture might be shaping our view of family size

THE Surrender BIRTH DIGEST

Let Scripture shape your birth, not fear, emotion or cultural trends.

A bi-weekly digest to help you prepare with Biblical wisdom, not fear or cultural compromise, so Christ remains central in every decision.