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Now That We're A Family

105: How We’re Planning for Postpartum as a Married Couple: Baby Number 4

Now That We're A Family

Elisha and Katie Voetberg

Kids & Family, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Postpartum is a season in your marriage that can draw you together or draw you apart, and we’ve experienced both in our short four and a half years of marriage. We believe God meant what he said when he wrote, “children are a blessing,” so we’ve never blamed a new baby for entering the world …

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If you know we are super passionate about the postpartum season and having that season go smoothly and not having it be this big downtime in your marriage or in your life because at least in Elishia's in my life,

0:17.2

postpartum has happened quite frequently. And it's a season that we want to be a positive experience for our kids, for us.

0:28.0

And I think our first postpartum really took both of us off guard just how hard it was on her marriage.

0:35.0

And so tonight we're going to be talking about how we're planning together for this

0:39.0

season. I think a lot of people talk about how the woman can plan for

0:42.4

postpartum and that's primarily focused on her healing and her swinging emotions, but that really affects your spouse too, so anyways, we're going to dig into this and yeah, hopefully, hopefully this part of it goes well.

0:58.0

Hey, I'm Elisha Votberg, and I'm his wife Katie.

1:06.0

Katie and I both grew up in families that were fun, impactful, and relationship rich.

1:10.5

Now that we're a family of our own with three young children under the age of three or

1:14.8

eager to see what God can do through the family unit.

1:17.8

We're so excited that you're joining us on this podcast as we dive into what the

1:21.6

Bible says about marriage, children, parenting, money, sex, careers,

1:26.0

roles, and so much more. Katie, are you ready?

1:29.0

Let's go. Oh, Katie, we're one day away from being 37 weeks with this pregnancy. How are you feeling?

1:59.0

You know, I would have had a very different response for you like five hours ago.

2:05.7

Yeah, like two hours ago.

2:07.0

Yeah.

2:08.2

So I started really feeling excited because our babies have come pretty early term so

2:16.6

between 37 and 38 weeks so getting here is an accomplishment in a milestone and

2:22.4

you can kind of let down now.

2:24.4

Yes, yeah, we've always been worried about the baby coming too soon.

2:28.4

It seems like you've gone into, you've felt contractions early on and sure enough I guess Louis came at 37 weeks

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