Sitting here in tears listening to your testimony. It is so beautiful the way God cares for us in the hard times, even if we don't see it at the time. Thank you for sharing God's faithfulness through your trials. What a beautiful baby! Congratulations!

I lost my bub at 24 wks pregnant. It’s so beautiful to listen to birth stories right now, I find it reassuring that there are many births that end in healthy babies. And remind me of my previous healthy homebirths.

Girl! You don’t look traumatized!! You look gorgeous. So sorry you had such a perilous experience during your pregnancy! So happy for you and baby!

46 minutes…you lucky beautiful momma!!! Your son is so handsome and precious!!! God has blessed you all so richly!!! I’m so hugely happy for all of you!!! ❤❤❤❤

Oh, Sister…I pray you read this comment. I believe I might know what’s going on! Your previous Lyme disease may have relapsed again, which is common when those with previous Lyme undergo major stress. This happened to me during my last pregnancy which pushed my body to the limits with 40wk 8-lb twins. I had 4 kiddos under 4 and my immune system shut down again and the Lyme bacteria escalated since those with Lyme can’t completely eradicate it but rather the bacteria moreso goes into remission when you’re in a place of more rest and healing. The light sensitivity, the dizziness and imbalance, the extreme fatigue, anxiety, connective tissue disfunction with ligaments and tendons, etc all absolutely make sense under Lyme. I could be wrong, but I care about you deeply, and I absolutely love your channel and hope this can shed some light for you to consider. What if you ask the doctor who helped you with your Lyme previously to test your current bacteria levels again with igenex labs? Mine relapsed and I’m undergoing herbs and doing various healthy treatments to get my levels back down again. I went from wearing sunglasses in the house and church because I couldn’t see without tears streaming and squinting to being able to have decently white eyes again. It was so isolating. I’m still working through the joint pain and various other things but I’m already feeling so much better. I pray you’re able to get this msg and somehow it can help give some insight. Praying for you, beautiful mama and sister in Christ. He is our Good Shepherd caring for us faithfully! 🩵🙏🌻

33 weeks pregnant and almost cried listening all you went through. So happy all ended up well. Best wishes 🧡🌸 You are a strong mamma!!

Wow, your whole story sounds like my last pregnancy in so many ways. Just different issues from 8 weeks on, and we had emergency c-section to save both our lives right on 31 weeks. I also prayed for this baby to have lots of hair... a very in passing kind of prayer that I knew was just a desire of mine... but at 31 weeks, her little head was covered in thick black hair 😍❤🥹 Jesus truly does care, so much!!! He is so sweet to me. ❤

So happy to hear the safe arrival of baby boy!! God Bless you with the best health !!

Awww! “Lots of hair” that’s so beautiful! What a beautiful testimony! 🥰

So cool to hear your story! What a blessing the way it ended - so quick and special with just you and Josh bringing that new precious life into the world!

This story was soooooo heart felt to hear! ❤ really enjoyed the update! Rest and enjoy that little boy☺️

So so happy for you all!❤ He is darling!!! 😊

Okay. The hair on the head as God hearing your prayers absolutely sent me to tears. You’re so amazing, Steph. ❤

He is absolutely gorgeous! I'm so pleased for you that the actual birth and the time after have been easier than the last 9 months. That sounds like an incredibly difficult ordeal and you've done amazingly well to still make videos and function. A strong mama! Congratulation to you, Josh and the rest of the family on the birth of your beautiful William Shepherd - such a lovely name!

Oh Steph! First off CONGRATULATIONS!! Also I just want to give you a giant hug! You are so sweet and lovely and it makes me so sad to think of you having so much stress and anxiety and health issues. Praise God for this new healthy miracle. Glad to see your happy smiling sweet face !

Oh Steph!!!😭 this was such a precious story!!! I’m so happy he’s here! He’s gorgeous!

What a beautiful story. ❤ In tears. My third pregnancy with my daughter was also very difficult for me, also the hardest postpartum season I've experienced. But praise God, 6 months later I'm doing so much better.❤️ Sooo happy for you and your family!

What an incredibly sacred experience! Congratulations beautiful mama!❤

oh my goodness!! your story was absolutely beautiful!!!🤍🤍 it was so touching, & and he is so adorable 🥰🥹

Congratulations!! So very happy you both are healthy! So very thankful! God bless you and your precious family!

Congratulations!! He’s a beautiful little boy. You are truly blessed.

Steph!!!!!!!! I can’t believe you endured all of those complications for 9 months❤ William is so sweet and his birth story is amazing- what a testimony💙

What a beautiful story! Congratulations! I love his name . He is just perfect!!

Such a blessing. That’s the way a husband and wife need to be and your children learn what a loving and supportive family - mom and dad should be. They will carry that on with their relationships and build strong and loving families. Congratulations 🎉🙏🏻

Wow! What a beautiful birth story! I'm so glad everything went well! You're so strong! Congratulations!

The light sensitivity coupled with you not being to have held flat sounds migraineish. And you sound so positive, I would have been an impossible mess. God bless you. ❤️😊

I too have PTSD and light sensitivity, certain sounds can trigger me. I am giving thanks to God for bringing you and baby through this time. What a blessed baby!

Congratulations on the safe and healthy arrival of William. Birth is truly a beautiful experience and very intimate. The moment after birth when we realise our baby is here and labour is over …. And we look at our husband with happy tears is one of my favourite moments in life. The moment we meet our baby and filled will love and gratitude

CONGRATULATIONS ! Your videos make me smile and clams me down. I love your energy and all of your homemaking. Keep doing you because it brings so much joy to so many people!

He is a Redeemer ❤ 🕊️ congratulations Josh and Steph and family

In tears for the trials that you faced, and your faith and strength how God was so faithful through it all!!

Congratulations to you both! He is just precious! What a blessing.

Wowowow GOD BLESS!!!! “I see hair” had me in tears! God is so good and faithful!!! So happy you, William, and your family are doing well ❤

Absolutely beautiful story and baby! I’m sorry you had worries during your pregnancy! You were such a trooper🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻❤️🌟

You are amazing!! Congratulations on your beautiful baby boy!!❣️

Also, one more thing! 😊 I love his middle name❤ ...reminds me of a verse I got after my teeny preemie was born 6mo ago... "He that formed thee from the womb... that makes all things... He is my shepherd." ❤

He is beautiful! I have never had any children, but it sounds intense! I have always admired you as I watch you keep your home and love your family, but wow! My admiration just went up a lot of notches! You are incredible! Praise God for the strength He gave you to face these past 9 months. What a reward at the end. ☺️

He is so precious. So glad the delivery was so quick and special to you and your husband.

You went through so much and coped so well. What a beautiful baby! ❤ thank you for sharing and I’m so pleased you are feeling well again. ❤

Congratulations Steph! He is absolutely adorable! Praise God he's here safe. ❤❤❤

He is so precious! It's so wonderful to hear how God has answered your prayers. May He continue to bless and keep your family! He has a beauiful name. 😊

Congratulations! Our baby number 5 came exactly the same! Midwife missed the birth, my husband had to catch the baby. It was so special and also something I will never forget! Praying for continued health for you!❤️

Your entire pregnancy and birth story is so encouraging to me. The suffering experienced in pregnancy and will experience in labor and delivery and even postpartum is wild and scary. But you have really encouraged me to lean into God’s faithfulness. I think my favorite part is you waking up to that specific devotional that God planned for you and listening to “He Will Keep You”. Sovereign Grace is one of my favorite bands and “He Will Keep You” is a song that I cherish with my firstborn. We actually had it sung for his infant baptism and it is currently on my playlist for when I go into labor. Thank you so much for sharing your story.

Congratulations! When you talked about the hair, it gave me chills! May God bless your sweet family.

Oh my goodness - what a beautiful story. I'm so sorry for the struggles you experienced during your pregnancy, but what a glorious, redemptive labor and delivery. William is beautiful!

Congratulations Steph! Baby William is as beautiful as your other kids and I am so happy that it went so well! I immediately clicked as I was excited to hear how it went. Thank you for sharing your struggles during pregnancy as well as it's easy to imagine other people don't have issues and yet we all do. I don't have kids but maybe someday. We are about the same age. I love watching your videos and being able to access your positive energy

Gorgeous baby, so happy for your labor after such a hard fought pregnancy. Bless you both!

Steph, I usually never comment...but I just have to today. The way you've suffered so much, and yet you continued to smile and bring us the parts of your day when you could for the last 9 months---is not surprising knowing you and yet it still kind of is. You reached some of your lowest points as a human and yet your faith remained intact and your sweet smile was always there encouraging us, responding to comments, etc. You are built of different stuff and we all can see it... you're lovely and so is your family and farm. I wanted to say congrats and thank you for being an inspiration to us even when you felt your lowest.

So very happy for you!!! He is absolutely adorable!!

Congratulations!! He is absolutely beautiful!

What a praise! God is always faithful. How wonderful to give him glory after such trials. My dear daughter is pregnant (one month to go). She has had Hyperemisis Gravadarium this pregnancy and it has been overwhelmingly difficult. I am going to send her your video. Blessings to your family.

Oh wow I seem to have missed your beautiful posts for some time and lo and behold a precious gift has been born . Congratulations 😻

Thanks so much for sharing! What a fun memory for you and your husband!

🙏🏻What a blessed mama you are🙏🏻. My one and only delivery dragged on for 48 hours, after being induced. I never even dilated to 1 and ended up having a csection because our son's shoulders were wider than his head circumference. He came out absolutely perfect and the nurses commented how beautiful he was.

Omgosh he is absolutely adorable. I’m so happy for you and your family. Congratulations. 😊🇨🇦

Oh wow. What a beautiful story after such a hardship. So thankful that you and William are doing so well and your husband was so supportive. May God continue to bless William. Praise the Lord that His word and the song plus a head full of hair gave you hope and much needed encouragement. Enjoy the baby snuggles. 💙

I am so thankful prayers were answered. He is beautiful.

Congratulations on the arrival of sweet William 💙. He is a very lucky little boy. You are my super hero Steph! God has blessed you with a beautiful family.

Amazing!! I’m about 30 weeks with my 5th and a boy too! I have horrible HG pregnancies, as well. This was such an inspiration to me and exactly what I needed to hear!! Truly, such a blessing!!

How lovely to see beautiful mum with your gorgeous baby😊

Here I am listening your story and in transformed in to a testimony! When you said he had hair! Oh Praise the Lord! He listens to our prayers! Be blessed momma!

Lovely story Steph, well done you and Josh. Baby William is a little sweetheart 🤗

What a beautiful testimony! Thankyou for sharing this with the world! It was very encouraging for me. ❤what a beautiful baby! 🥹

I’m sitting here crying congratulations beautiful baby so happy for you glad he’s here and healthy

Thank you for sharing your birth story! Such a beautiful blessing to add little William to your family! God Bless!

I'm so thrilled for you and my heart is filled with joy for you all. What an awesome way God gives us blessings even in our trials. Your baby boy is absolutely beautiful and I love his name! I have a grandson named Rex Shepherd, and he does shepherd his friends so well. ❤❤ Praying heaps of blessings on your family as you rest a little and soak up the moments which go so quickly.

So happy for you all and God has indeed answered your prayers and so thankful. I hope you all have such a beautiful moments and I have prayed so much for you. I hope my card arrived. Blessings to you!❤🫠🤗

Thank you for sharing your birth story. I’m so sorry your pregnancy was so difficult and such a dark time for you. So glad you are on the other side with a sweet precious baby to hold. We have six children all home births but not easy pregnancies and I can relate to so many of the difficulties you described. You do such a beautiful job with your home, food and channel. I’m in awe! ❤️Ruth

He’s absolutely beautiful! I always think of my little babies as my sweet gift at the end of the pregnancy and I’m sure you feel the same way especially after this one. Congratulations❤❤❤

What a beautiful story. I am so happy for you and your family. Congratulations and sending you love ❤

Aww!! What a wonderful blessing little William is! He's so beautiful, and all that hair!!😍 Loved your beautiful birth story so much! God is so good!! CONGRATULATIONS!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

that is SUCH a beautiful baby - huge congrats so glad you had such a wonderful miraculous birth - so so glad for you all!!! all Gods best blessings to you as a family

Such a journey you had...and a precious gift at the end which is really the beginning of another journey with being baby Williams mom. ❤

Congrats!! Thx for sharing. Sorry for such a difficult time. So glad to hear it all went well in the end! What a sweet baby boy & wonderful family.

Congratulations! He’s precious! You look so beautiful too!

Congratulations!!!! He is just precious and you look so beautiful and happy. I’m so glad you had an easy birth and are feeling better. ❤

That was such a beautiful and blessed birth story. I am so happy for all of you. God bless you and your sweet, adorable little William. I am so very happy for you and your beautiful family!! 💙🙏💙

Congratulations on the new one!! God bless you now! Thanks for sharing your life with us!

Congratulations to you and Josh! William is so precious! I'm so glad to hear that your labor and delivery went so smoothly. God is so good! ❤

Congratulations! I love birth stories! So glad you are feeling better.

What a testimony to our loving Father. Congratulations on your beautiful baby!

Wow 🥹 Praise the Lord! When you said the detail about his hair I couldn’t hold back tears of joy. Sending much love and prayers of recovery from the trials you endured through pregnancy! What a testimony 🙌

What a precious story and experience. I'm so sorry you had to go through all this in your pregnancy. I really feel for you. But whar a precious and wonderful son you have, what a pretty name! We would have named him William too if we had a boy. William Shepard is so beautiful. Wishing you all the best and all good for the future. I was cleaning out the fridge listening to this video and watching with a "half eye" too, but I had to sit down and watch and wipe the tears. I'm so touched and moved by listening to your story. Wishing you all good for the future. ❤

You are GRACE under fire..wowza! Major congratulations! 💐💐💐💐

Absolutely beautiful!!! I cried through most of it, feeling the emotions as you spoke. God is good 🙏🏼

What a sweet story..just like you…sweet, beautiful and kind. Baby boy has so much hair!! ❤

Your baby is so adorable,I love his dark hair

Congratulations, mama! You both look so radiant and full of health. What a beautiful story, all glory to God! Listening to this as I fold baby blankets in preparation for my home birth any day now and I am so encouraged by God's faithfulness to you through all your challenges and ultimate triumph. So happy for your beautiful family and I pray that everything continues to be blissful and easeful.

What a beautiful blessing. Congratulations and welcome to little baby William Shepard ❤

Totally almost shared the exact same birth story as you haha my fifth baby, fetal ejection, midwife never made it, husband caught the baby, chilled for half hour til midwife substitute got there, and all was perfect. God is shown strongest in our "desperate" moments, huh? Sending you love. God bless!

CONGRATULATIONS FOR THE NEW MEMBER OF THE FAMILY 😘😍🥰❤

Congratulations! He is so precious and cute. God blessed him!!!❤

Congratulations on your new dear little bundle. You poor thing, it’s been a long hard pregnancy and you fought all the way through and with a smile on your face. I sincerely hope you get well and strong now, sort out the problems and you’ll be on your way with your gorgeous family. Remember to take care of YOU. Everyone needs you. All the very best my dear. Good wishes coming all the way from Australia. 🇦🇺

This is the most beautiful birthday story! I am so happy for you and your family. I had two home births and look upon them as so very special. Congratulations! 🎉 God’s blessings to you!

What a beautiful birth story! Love your baby’s name and his hair. 🥰 He’s precious. I just had my fourth baby 2 months ago and named him Theodore William.

Congratulations Steph & Josh baby is beautiful so big ❤ What a story!

Hello Steph! What a beautiful birth story!!! And what a beautiful testimony of God's goodness and faithfulness!!! He's so mindful of his children!! Prayers were definitely answered for you!!! And sweet William is precious!! What a sweet blessing he is to you and your sweet family!!! I'm so glad he's here and your feeling well. Congratulations and God bless you and your family!!!

So happy everything ended well after all of that! 🙏 You are the second person I've heard about having extreme weakness symptoms from gallbladder issues. Tiffany from Allthings home had a lot of strange symptoms including extreme weakness for a few months, and underwent numerous tests (I think they thought she had MS), but it turned out to be her gallbladder. Once she had it removed, all of her symptoms went away. Congratulations on your sweet baby boy! 💕

Congratulations!! 🥹

Congratulations on your sweet new baby!