For many women, birth is described with words like painful, intense, or something to get through. But for Sammy Murry, a mom of three girls (and now expecting her fourth), her third birth was nothing short of peaceful, joyful, and nearly pain-free.
Her story isn’t about luck or perfect circumstances. It’s about faith, preparation, and trusting God in one of life’s most sacred experiences. In this episode of the Pain Free Birth Podcast, Sammy sits down with host Karen Welton to share how she moved from simply hoping for a good birth to praying for and believing in a supernatural one, and how every single prayer was answered.
Listening to Birth Stories That Build Faith
For Sammy, positive birth stories weren’t just entertainment. They were essential preparation.
“I’ve had three births and I’m getting ready for my fourth,” she shared. “Even though I’ve done it three other times, I still love to hear those encouraging stories. I think it’s so good for my mindset to hear how different every birth can be, how unique every experience can be.”
Before discovering the Pain Free Birth community, Sammy had already been drawn to natural, holistic motherhood. She ran her Instagram account, Clean Living Sammy, sharing her journey toward non-toxic living and wellness. But when it came to birth, she still believed what most women are taught — that pain was inevitable.
Listening to other women’s stories, women who spoke about joyful, empowering, and even pain-free births, began to plant a new seed of faith. “It reminded me that this is a beautiful experience,” she said. “It can be fun, it can be pain free, it can be spiritual.”
Each story she listened to became a small act of faith, a way to renew her mind and prepare her heart. “I listen to them like I’m getting ready for game day,” she laughed. “They get me all excited.”
Her First Two Births: Beautiful, But Hard Work
Sammy’s first two births were already beautiful experiences, but not what she would call pain-free.
Her first baby was born at a birth center after seven hours of labor. It was spiritual, meaningful, and left her feeling empowered. “I looked at my husband thirty minutes after she was born and said, ‘I would do that again tomorrow.’”
But her second birth was a different story. “It was hard,” she admitted. “It was still beautiful, but I went into it assuming it would be the same or easier than the first. I didn’t prepare as much. I went in too confident, and I felt that one for sure.”
Her second labor was also seven hours long, but it surprised her with its intensity. She realized that each birth requires its own level of spiritual and mental preparation.
Afterward, she began to wonder if there was more, if birth could be not just empowering but peaceful.
Discovering Supernatural Childbirth
During her third pregnancy, Sammy came across a book that would shift her entire perspective: Supernatural Childbirth by Jackie Mize.
“I don’t even remember where or how I found it,” she said, “but when I read it, everything changed. My husband actually got more excited about it than I did at first. He said, ‘This is amazing. This means birth doesn’t have to be painful!’”
The book challenged everything Sammy thought she knew about birth. It presented the idea that through Christ’s redemption, women are no longer under the curse of painful childbirth from Genesis 3:16, and that birth could be experienced as it was originally intended: peaceful, powerful, and pain-free.
“I was kind of nervous to believe for that,” she admitted. “I’d done this twice and loved it, but it wasn’t pain-free. So I thought, ‘Do I really want to get my hopes up?’”
Karen empathized, explaining that this is one of the most common reactions she hears. “When people find my account and see the name Pain Free Birth, they say, ‘That’s crazy. Birth isn’t pain free. I’ve done it, and it hurts.’”
But as both women agreed, this reaction comes from a societal belief system that has been passed down for generations, a belief that birth must be painful. Sammy’s third pregnancy became a journey of unlearning that belief and replacing fear with faith.
“You Get What You Plan For and Pray For”
When Karen asked Sammy what she would say now to women who still believe birth has to be painful, Sammy’s answer was simple but profound:
“I feel like you kind of get what you plan for and what you pray for. If you’re planning that birth is painful, it’s going to be painful. But if you open your mind and pray for something else, for supernatural, for pain-free, for peace, that’s what you’re more likely to experience.”
She explained that it’s not about denial, but intention. What you expose yourself to — the stories you hear, the books you read, the people you talk to — all shape your expectations.
“It’s so much about what you’re feeding yourself in pregnancy,” she said. “That makes a huge difference in how you experience birth.”
For Sammy, the preparation wasn’t just physical. It was spiritual and mental training.
Preparing Through Prayer
Every birth, Sammy and her husband pray through a list of specific desires and intentions. For her third pregnancy, she added one new prayer: that her birth would be pain-free.
“I’d never even thought to pray for that before,” she said. “It wasn’t on my radar. But this time, I prayed for it, and for peace, no tearing, no hemorrhaging, a daytime birth, and a water birth.”
She prayed to be GBS negative, and she was. She prayed for her water birth to go smoothly, and it did. She prayed to go into labor after a good night’s rest, and that’s exactly what happened.
Her labor began early in the morning at 4:30 a.m. “It felt like waves,” she recalled. “They weren’t painful, just strong. I stayed in bed, resting and listening to worship music.”
Her contractions were spaced out, about 11 minutes apart, for two hours. “It was relaxing,” she said. “I woke my husband up, and we just started praying through the scriptures I had prepared for pregnancy. It was so peaceful. We prayed, we worshiped, we just enjoyed being together.”
When Peace Feels Too Easy
When her midwives arrived around 8:30 a.m., Sammy suddenly felt pressure, not from her body but mentally.
“For some reason, I thought, ‘Okay, they’re here now. I should be further along.’” she said. “I started thinking, ‘This feels too easy. Maybe I’m not progressing enough.’”
Karen immediately recognized that moment. “Isn’t it amazing how we can take a beautiful, peaceful birth and get in our head and mess ourselves up?” she said. “Every woman does this at some point. We start analyzing, doubting, questioning our progress. But those thoughts don’t serve us. They pull us out of our bodies and into our heads.”
Sammy agreed. “It was short-lived,” she said. “I realized what was happening and prayed through it. The contractions got stronger, which helped me focus again.”
She also remembered one of the most encouraging truths she’s learned about labor:
“Those breaks between contractions are such a gift from God. Labor is hard, but the breaks are wonderful. If you rest in those breaks and enjoy them, it makes the whole experience so much easier.”
That gratitude, noticing God’s gifts even in labor, became her anchor.
An Hour of Prayer and Surrender
After several hours, her midwives offered to check her progress. Sammy agreed and discovered she was only 3.5 cm dilated.
“They said, ‘Your water bag is bulging; that might be slowing things down. Do you want us to break it?’” she recalled. “I said, ‘No. I’ve been praying for it to happen naturally.’”
For the next hour, she prayed specifically for her water to break on its own. “I tried different positions, squatting, moving, praying through every contraction,” she said. “It wasn’t painful, but I felt like I was working against something.”
Finally, she felt peace. “I trusted my midwives, and after an hour, I said, ‘Okay, let’s break it.’ They did, and everything changed immediately.”
Within minutes, she entered active labor. “It went from peaceful to powerful,” she said. “The contractions came on top of each other. It was intense, but still full of peace. I had to go deep, what Karen calls labor land.”
Her husband and midwives surrounded her in prayer. Worship music filled the room. And in just 45 minutes, Sammy’s baby was born.
From 3.5 cm to Baby in 45 Minutes
When Karen heard that, her reaction said it all: “Wait, three and a half to birth in 45 minutes?!”
Sammy laughed. “Yes! She was born in 45 minutes after they broke my water.”
It was a whirlwind of intensity, but not pain.
“The contractions were coming right on top of each other,” she said. “It wasn’t what I’d call painful. It was just hard physical work. That’s what labor is. It’s work. But it’s not suffering.”
Even in the intensity, she felt covered in peace. “Every contraction led me to prayer,” she said. “I wasn’t talking at that point, but I was praying internally through every surge. It was just peace and presence the whole time.”
Karen described it beautifully: “It sounds so sacred, like every contraction was worship.”
Faith Over Fear: Letting God Lead
After years of believing that birth had to be hard, Sammy’s third experience became her greatest faith-builder.
Each moment felt like a partnership with God, not a battle against her body.
“Birth is a process He designed,” she said. “Our bodies are so incredibly made to do this. Whether it’s hours or days or really fast, it’s still an incredible process.”
For Sammy, the biggest difference wasn’t what she did physically. It was her mindset. She had learned to trust her body and trust God’s timing.
That trust allowed her to move through fear and into total surrender. “I don’t know if I could have experienced that peace in a hospital setting,” she reflected. “At home, it was just me, my husband, our midwives, and God. It was calm. It was quiet. I could focus. I could pray. There were no interruptions.”
Her baby girl was born in the water, in her nursery, surrounded by worship music and prayer.
Realizing Every Prayer Was Answered
It wasn’t until after the birth, when the house was quiet and her baby rested peacefully on her chest, that Sammy and her husband realized what had happened.
“We were debriefing everything,” she said. “And we realized every single prayer we’d written down was answered. Even the small ones, like praying for a daytime birth. She was born right at noon.”
She smiled. “I prayed for peace, for a pain-free birth, for no tearing, for rest before labor. And He gave it all to me.”
In that moment, she felt God’s love in a new way. “Maybe my labor wasn’t slow,” she reflected. “Maybe it was just pain-free. God was giving me what I prayed for.”
That realization shifted something in her heart. “Now, as I prepare for my fourth, I don’t feel the need to control anything,” she said. “I just trust that He’s in control. Whatever happens, it’ll be exactly what I need.”
Her Word for Baby #4: Savor
As she looks ahead to her next birth, Sammy shared one word that defines her prayer for this season: savor.
“I just want to savor every moment,” she said. “Whether it’s fast or long, whether it’s easy or stretching, I want to surrender and savor it. This is probably our last baby, and I just want to enjoy every second of it.”
Karen smiled. “That’s beautiful,” she said. “Because when we release control, we actually make room for the miraculous.”
The Fetal Ejection Response: When the Body Takes Over
One of the most extraordinary parts of Sammy’s story was the very end of labor. “It happened so fast,” she said. “One contraction turned into pushing, and then her head was out. The midwife came in just in time to check her, and she had a nuchal cord. We got her repositioned, and seconds later, her body was born. It was like 30 seconds.”
Sammy didn’t push. Her body did.
Karen explained that this phenomenon, called the fetal ejection response, is the body’s instinctive ability to birth without conscious pushing when the mother feels safe, supported, and fully surrendered.
“When your body does the work on its own, it knows exactly how much force to use,” Karen said. “That’s why so many women who experience this don’t tear, because it’s your body doing it, not you forcing it.”
Sammy agreed. “It was such a relief,” she said. “I didn’t feel a ring of fire. It just felt like release, like my body was doing what it was made to do.”
Moments later, she and her husband scooped their baby up out of the water together. “She was so alert, so peaceful,” Sammy said. “We just stared at her in awe.”
Postpartum Peace and Preparation
After the intensity of labor came the quiet joy of postpartum.
“This time, even the recovery felt peaceful,” Sammy said. “I didn’t hemorrhage like I did after my first. The placenta came easily. Everything felt smooth and calm.”
Over the years, she’s learned that preparing for postpartum is just as important as preparing for birth.
“My husband and I used to focus all our prayers and prep on labor,” she said. “But now, we also pray for postpartum, for rest, for support, for emotional peace, and for our marriage.”
Her postpartum with baby number three was exactly that: restful, joyful, and full of gratitude.
A Prayer for Mothers
At the end of the episode, Sammy prayed over the women listening, a prayer that beautifully captures her heart and the message of her story.
“Lord, thank You so much for the gift of childbirth. Thank You that it’s a spiritual act, a beautiful act, not a fear-based one. I pray for every woman listening who is hoping for a beautiful birth with You. Give them strength. Give them faith beyond what they’ve experienced before. Let their births be beautiful, heavenly moments that draw them and their families closer to You. In Jesus’ name, amen.”
Karen closed the episode by affirming what so many listeners feel after hearing stories like Sammy’s: “I pray that your next birth is abundantly above all that you’ve been praying for, that God shows up in ways you couldn’t even imagine.”
The Power of Faith in Birth
Sammy’s story reminds us that faith isn’t about controlling outcomes. It’s about surrendering them.
When a woman chooses to believe that God’s design for birth is good, not cursed, not chaotic, but redemptive, she opens the door to experience birth in a completely new way.
Sometimes that looks like a fast, peaceful water birth. Sometimes it looks like a long labor that builds spiritual endurance. But in every case, God’s presence can transform what the world calls pain into something holy.
As Karen often says, “The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.” When you hear that something miraculous happened for another woman, it becomes possible for you too.
Key Takeaways from Sammy’s Story
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Faith shapes birth. What you believe and pray for matters.
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Mindset matters. Positive birth stories help rewire your expectations.
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Birth is worship. Every contraction can draw you closer to God.
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You are designed for this. Your body knows how to birth your baby.
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Peace is preparation. Build it through prayer, gratitude, and trust.
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Surrender brings miracles. When you let go of control, God takes over.
Final Thoughts
Sammy’s supernatural birth wasn’t the result of chance. It was the fruit of faith, prayer, and preparation.
From 3.5 cm to birth in 45 minutes, from fear to trust, from pain to peace, her story proves that God is still in the business of redemption.
Whether you’re a first-time mom or preparing for your fourth baby, her testimony offers a simple yet powerful invitation:
What if you believed that birth could be redeemed for you too?
More about Sammy:
Sammy Murry is a mama to three girls with a boy on the way. She’s passionate about holistic living and eliminating toxins in our day to day life and I help other mom’s do the same.
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