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    Free Birth Society

    The Free Birth Podcast explores what it means to exercise our full autonomy as women during pregnancy, childbirth, and beyond.

    We now live in a global culture in which obstetrics has come to monopolize every aspect of birth. Epidemic rates of surgical birth, rampant trauma among women, and a deeply embedded resistance to the spontaneous process of birth have become normalized. Pregnancy is treated as an illness and childbirth is seen as an emergency from which women and babies need to be saved.

    Before doctors and even midwives were seen as the “experts”, there was just…birth. Women have been successfully birthing healthy babies for as long as human beings have walked the earth. The truth is that birth is a normal physiological event that rarely requires medical intervention. To freebirth is typically associated with the term “unassisted childbirth”, which means the woman is choosing to give birth without medical assistance and is managing her own care.

    The Free Birth podcast is a virtual corner of the universe dedicated to validating birth as our own, and celebrating the growing movement of women reclaiming birth as our own.

    Birth is not a medical event!

    Join us as we discuss legal and human rights in childbirth, investigate the different models of care, and hear from women around the world as they tell their stories of birthing freely.

    Our intention with this podcast is to uplift the voices of women who are making the decision to opt out of the default medical system.

    Freebirth isn’t for everyone. The Free Birth Podcast simply highlights the fact that freebirth is a viable option for many women, and that there is room in this world for every woman to exercise her own personal choice in birth.

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    Elder Midwife Sister MorningStar (Part 2) Sep 12, 2017
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    Elder Midwife Sister MorningStar (Part 2) by Free Birth Society


    Elder Midwife Sister MorningStar (Part 1) Sep 06, 2017
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    This week we are truly blessed to have elder midwife Sister Morningstar sharing her wisdom on the art of traditional midwifery. You may know her from her impassioned letter to NARM resigning from the registry that went viral earlier this year and touched many of our birth keeper hearts. Sister shares how to start village prenatals in your community, the dangers of NRP and intervening with the natural birth process, to her own incredible mentorship in her earlier years. It was a deep privilege to get to speak to one of my personal heroes of the birth world.


    An Underground Canadian Free Birth That Heals A Family Sep 01, 2017
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    Today on the show we have Heidi-Lyn from New Brunswick, Canada sharing the healing story of her birthing in full power with her second baby in the support of her husband and a traditional midwife. After a deeply traumatic childbirth experience in hospital with her first, it took her a long time to even be willing to consider a second child. She was left violated and angry, knowing deep in her gut this second birth needed to be different than what she had at the hospital. So, she did the work. Heidi educated herself, found her new team and dedicated herself to birthing at home. Any power that was stripped away from her first birth, she reclaimed in her second.


    Free Birthing In A Tiny Home On A Farm In Florida Aug 17, 2017
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    Today on the show we have Anna who birthed her baby in Florida. Anna knew years prior to meeting her partner that she was destined to free birth her child. After consciously conceiving her baby she navigated a rough pregnancy but never wavered in the knowledge that an unassisted pregnancy and birth was what was right for her. Anna went into labor in her 36th week, what the medical model would call premature labor, and had a quick and beautiful birth resulting in a healthy baby that breastfed easily.


    3 Sons Born Free In Mexico Jul 28, 2017
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    An expat from America, Nicole moved to Mexico to live a more simple and nature based life. After witnessing an unassisted birth of a family member, she knew this was also the path for her. Nicole went on to birth her three sons over the last four years, at home, with the support of her friends and family. Nicole recently free birthed her third child and tell us the stories of all three. We get into birth culture, privilege, and how Nicole navigated trust in her body and babies after her first son was born with a limb abnormality.


    Free Birthing A Mile High: Katie's Journey Jul 20, 2017
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    Pregnant with her 5th child, Katie shares her first four very different birth stories. A precipitous first birth in the hospital, an elective induction with her second, an overwhelmingly fast unassisted birth with her third, and then finally a nicely paced calm and private water birth with her fourth. We talk about her path towards free birth and the concerns of birthing this new baby in a conservative state without a supportive birth community. Katie and her family currently resides in North Carolina having had her first four children in Colorado.


    The Ancient Wisdom Of Birthing Outside With The Moon Jul 11, 2017
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    Today on the show we have the incredible Layla from Maui, Hawaii. She birthed both her children outside under the bamboo trees of Hawaii, with the moon on her face and a fire blazing. Her stories carry the essence of ancient birthing wisdom. Listen in as Layla shares about her intuitive guidance towards free birth at 6 weeks pregnant and her ability to set appropriate self preserving boundaries with family and her surroundings. Layla's story is truly inspiring.


    Amanda's Unassisted Childbirth in Los Angeles Jul 03, 2017
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    Today we have Amanda from Los Angeles, California. Luckily, Amanda was able to attend a hospital birth before being pregnant, so she knew what she didn't want. With the support of her partner, she prepared herself for an autonomous birth at home. Labor began at the bar where she and her husband had met. She drove herself home to realize she was in full blown active labor. Her birth story is beautifully simplistic, though not without an interesting twist at the end!


    From A Home Birth In The Bronx To A Free Birth In Texas Jun 27, 2017
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    Today on the show we have the wise and wonderful Dominque. She chose a home birth with a midwife and doula for her first birth in the Bronx but upon reflection after the birth she realized she would have preferred to have just been alone with her husband. So when she became pregnant with her second son and moved to Texas, it was an easy and intuitive decision for her to have a mostly unassisted pregnancy and to free birth. We talk about breastfeeding while in labor and what it was like for Dominque to tandem nurse her children for two years.


    Mother of 11: 4 Inductions, 6 Unassisted, 1 With Traditional Birth Attendants Jun 22, 2017
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    Today we have our first grand multipara on the show, meaning a woman who has given birth five or more times. Julie has had 11 children and is currently living in Arizona. From her first baby at 16 years old in the hospital with forced interventions and rough treatment she went on to continue to be induced with her next three children in hospital. So after four babies, she chose with the support of her husband to birth on her own and trust and allow labor to work it's magic. Julie goes on to have six completely unassisted births and celebrated her most recent birth in the presence of two trusted traditional birth attendants.


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