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The Free Birth Society Podcast features honest, gripping, inspiring, and transformative freebirth stories hosted by the founder Emilee Saldaya in conversation with wild women worldwide.

In the vast tapestry of childbirth experiences, a thread runs undisturbed, unmedicated, and true to its ancestral roots: freebirth. This differs from your usual home birth with doulas or midwives in attendance. Freebirth stands apart, where birthing is solely in the hands of the birthing woman, accompanied only by her intuition, rhythms of nature, witnessed by her family.

The Free Birth Podcast invites you to a unique corner of the universe where we dive deep into the raw essence of birth, untamed and unassisted. Pushing against the tides of modern obstetrics and its violent approach, we venture into stories of women who've boldly chosen to claim this primal rite of passage. Here, we're not merely sharing tales; we're challenging the status quo and redefining the very narrative of childbirth.

As we unravel discussions on rights in childbirth, dissect varied care models, and amplify the unfiltered voices of freebirthing women from around the planet, our purpose remains clear: to spotlight the distinction and significance of wild birth. This isn't an argument against the myriad ways women choose to birth, but rather an affirmation that freebirth has its revered space in the continuum of birth choices.

Join us in celebrating a movement that underscores the powerful message and has changed the lives of thousands: Birth, in its purest form, is not a medical event but a profoundly personal journey.

The Free Birth Society Podcast is your compass to navigate and rediscover that journey.

*Freebirth = Birthing in the absence of any hired professionals, away from medical institutions or their agents. Also known as family birth, unassisted birth, wild birth.

*Sovereign birth = Birthing outside of the medical paradigm, inclusive of births with authentic midwives and doulas. We include many stories on the show where women birthed outside of the medical system with doulas and radical birth keepers. While these births are not freebirths, they are certainly sovereign births!

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The Free Birth Society Podcast features honest, gripping, inspiring, and transformative freebirth stories hosted by the founder Emilee Saldaya in conversation with wild women worldwide.

In the vast tapestry of childbirth experiences, a thread runs undisturbed, unmedicated, and true to its ancestral roots: freebirth. This differs from your usual home birth with doulas or midwives in attendance. Freebirth stands apart, where birthing is solely in the hands of the birthing woman, accompanied only by her intuition, rhythms of nature, witnessed by her family.

The Free Birth Podcast invites you to a unique corner of the universe where we dive deep into the raw essence of birth, untamed and unassisted. Pushing against the tides of modern obstetrics and its violent approach, we venture into stories of women who've boldly chosen to claim this primal rite of passage. Here, we're not merely sharing tales; we're challenging the status quo and redefining the very narrative of childbirth.

As we unravel discussions on rights in childbirth, dissect varied care models, and amplify the unfiltered voices of freebirthing women from around the planet, our purpose remains clear: to spotlight the distinction and significance of wild birth. This isn't an argument against the myriad ways women choose to birth, but rather an affirmation that freebirth has its revered space in the continuum of birth choices.

Join us in celebrating a movement that underscores the powerful message and has changed the lives of thousands: Birth, in its purest form, is not a medical event but a profoundly personal journey.

The Free Birth Society Podcast is your compass to navigate and rediscover that journey.

*Freebirth = Birthing in the absence of any hired professionals, away from medical institutions or their agents. Also known as family birth, unassisted birth, wild birth.

*Sovereign birth = Birthing outside of the medical paradigm, inclusive of births with authentic midwives and doulas. We include many stories on the show where women birthed outside of the medical system with doulas and radical birth keepers. While these births are not freebirths, they are certainly sovereign births!

    When Stillbirth Leads to Freebirth: Savannah’s Story

    When Stillbirth Leads to Freebirth: Savannah’s Story

    Today on the show we have Savannah, a graduate of The Radical Birth Keeper School, and she’s here to tell her big and important story of birth, single motherhood, loss, and claiming her freedom as a woman.

    Savannah’s first birth resulted in heartbreaking, but so common, midwifery sabotage and betrayal, with a totally unnecessary transfer to the hospital. Many years later, Savannah re-partners, and finds herself pregnant again. Tragically, she lost that baby on her 40 week date. Savannah tells us the gutting story of birthing her stillborn son in the hospital. She shares how in her mourning, she was guided to this very podcast, and then to our Radical Birth Keeper School, where she found deep healing and support.

    In navigating her first birth outside the system and contending with fear, Savannah steps fully into her power and freebirths her next baby, just 11 months after the loss of her last baby.

    These are the kinds of real and difficult conversations we do not shy away from in The Radical Birth Keeper School. Birth work is death work. If you’re ready to lean into the depth of this work, this is our last call for this year’s session of The Radical Birth Keeper School. Go to radicalbirthkeeperschool.com and grab one of our last spots now. 

    Grab some tissues and settle in for Savannah’s story. 

    Here's what you'll hear in Savannah’s story:

    ✨How a vision during her unexpected pregnancy solidified her decision to bring her son to earth

    ✨The sabotage by medical midwives of her home birth and the unnecessary hospital transfer

    ✨How she intuited during her second pregnancy that something was wrong 

    ✨Her joy of experiencing birth, but also the grief that her baby had left his body

    ✨The wisdom and guidance received through her loss

    ✨How she found The RBK School, enrolled, and allowed it to blow her world wide open

    ✨Her third pregnancy and the magic of attending Matriarch Rising Festival at 35 weeks pregnant

    ✨Her fast and intense freebirth witnessed by her husband and son

    ✨The deep work of integrating grief with a new baby

     

    ⭐ Join the Radical Birth Keeper School! Enrollment is open NOW!

    ⭐ Don't miss the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute,  Join the waitlist and receive all the details late spring

    Connect with Free Birth Society 👇

    We're *so close* to hitting our goal of videos for our Sovereign Birth collection on Youtube!  Help us get there by submitting your video here.

    Get our *FREE* Freebirth Starter Kit here!

    -Matriarch Rising Festival: Tickets are on sale NOW!  Apply here to be a work trade volunteer at this year's women-only festival in the Blue ridge Mountains.

    -The Podcast: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway – whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or to dive deeper into sovereign living. Submit your own sovereign birth story here! Want your product or brand featured on a podcast with 5M+ downloads? Request to become a podcast sponsor by emailing us at podcast@freebirthsociety.com

    -The Complete Guide to Freebirth: a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power.

    -Follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth, the sovereign birth paradigm, authentic midwifery and so much more.

    -The Lighthouse: our exclusive membership for radical, curious, wild women. We only welcome new women to our private sanctuary a few times per year.

    -Feature Emilee: If you want Emilee Saldaya, the trailblazer of the free birth movement with 20+ years of experience, on your podcast, email us at podcast@freebirthsociety.com

    -And, of course, we couldn’t do what we do without your support, so if you feel called to make a donation to the podcast, it would be greatly appreciated. Click here to donate.

    • 1 hr 41 min
    When Freebirth Heals the Mother Wound: Arie’s First Birth

    When Freebirth Heals the Mother Wound: Arie’s First Birth

    Today I am joined by Arie, a Radical Birth Keeper School Grad who freebirthed her first baby after the school, supported by her partner and mother. Since RBK doors are open right now, we gotta highlight these epic women who experienced major transformation during and after the program! 

    When Arie got pregnant she knew she would stay home. She didn't want to hire a professional, and *did* deeply want to have her mom there, despite the fact that they weren't on speaking terms. Arie consciously took steps to repair their relationship. In the end, her mother held perfect space, so much healing took place, and Arie freebirths a perfect little boy. 

     

    Here's what you'll hear in Arie's story:

    ✨How Arie accepted her mother for who she is, set boundaries, and learned to be in healthy relationship

    ✨The freedom in dropping the story that having kids precludes doing all you want in life

    ✨The power of feeling emotions fully without attaching thoughts (especially in the huge experience of pregnancy).

    ✨The fears (and racism) propagated in the only doctor visit Arie attended

    ✨How Arie uninvited her sisters to her birth at the last minute and why this "no" was so clear to her

    ✨The importance of being internally resourced to flow with the intensity of pregnancy and birth

    ✨Why we women require witnessing, especially in postpartum

    Enjoy!

     

    ⭐ Join the Radical Birth Keeper School! Enrollment is open NOW!

    ⭐ Don't miss the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute,  Join the waitlist and receive all the details late spring

    Connect with Free Birth Society 👇

    We're *so close* to hitting our goal of videos for our Sovereign Birth collection on Youtube!  Help us get there by submitting your video here.

    Get our *FREE* Freebirth Starter Kit here!

    -Matriarch Rising Festival: Tickets are on sale NOW!  Apply here to be a work trade volunteer at this year's women-only festival in the Blue ridge Mountains.

    -The Podcast: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway – whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or to dive deeper into sovereign living. Submit your own sovereign birth story here! Want your product or brand featured on a podcast with 5M+ downloads? Request to become a podcast sponsor by emailing us at podcast@freebirthsociety.com

    -The Complete Guide to Freebirth: a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power.

    -Follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth, the sovereign birth paradigm, authentic midwifery and so much more.

    -The Lighthouse: our exclusive membership for radical, curious, wild women. We only welcome new women to our private sanctuary a few times per year.

    -Feature Emilee: If you want Emilee Saldaya, the trailblazer of the free birth movement with 20+ years of experience, on your podcast, email us at podcast@freebirthsociety.com

    -And, of course, we couldn’t do what we do without your support, so if you feel called to make a donation to the podcast, it would be greatly appreciated. Click here to donate.

    • 56 min
    The Freebirther’s Guide to Hemorrhage with Yolande Norris-Clark

    The Freebirther’s Guide to Hemorrhage with Yolande Norris-Clark

    Watch this episode HERE

    I am thrilled to be welcoming back to the show my bestie, my birth wife, my co-creatrix of The Radical Birth Keeper School, The Complete Guide to Freebirth, and our soon to be 12 month midwifery school, MatriBirth Midwifery Institute — Yolande Norris-Clark. She’s here today to help me crack open this pervasive myth of hemorrhage, and to offer a sovereign resource that is in alignment with what we know to be true of 20 years of birth-work. We’ll talk about what that word means, what it does *not* mean, and how we can demystify and therefore be unafraid of postpartum bleeding both as freebirthing mothers and as sovereign birth keepers.This topic is especially relevant as we are currently enrolling for the Radical Birth Keeper School, and one of our core missions through our teachings is to teach the truth about birth and help you deprogram from the cultural spells casted upon us. Enrollment is open for just a short time more, so don’t wait, join us and let us blow your minds.

    ⭐ Join the Radical Birth Keeper School! Enrollment is open NOW!

    ⭐ Don't miss the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute,  Join the waitlist and receive all the details late spring

    Connect with Free Birth Society 👇

    We're *so close* to hitting our goal of videos for our Sovereign Birth collection on Youtube!  Help us get there by submitting your video here.

    Get our *FREE* Freebirth Starter Kit here!

    -Matriarch Rising Festival: Tickets are on sale NOW!  Apply here to be a work trade volunteer at this year's women-only festival in the Blue ridge Mountains.

    -The Podcast: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway – whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or to dive deeper into sovereign living. Submit your own sovereign birth story here! Want your product or brand featured on a podcast with 5M+ downloads? Request to become a podcast sponsor by emailing us at podcast@freebirthsociety.com

    -The Complete Guide to Freebirth: a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power.

    -Follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth, the sovereign birth paradigm, authentic midwifery and so much more.

    -The Lighthouse: our exclusive membership for radical, curious, wild women. We only welcome new women to our private sanctuary a few times per year.

    -Feature Emilee: If you want Emilee Saldaya, the trailblazer of the free birth movement with 20+ years of experience, on your podcast, send an invite to podcast@freebirthsociety.com

    -And, of course, we couldn’t do what we do without your support, so if you feel called to make a donation to the podcast, it would be greatly appreciated. Click here to donate.

     

     

     

    • 1 hr 24 min
    When Miscarriage Teaches You Wholeness: Amelia’s Journey to Freebirth after 2 C-Sections

    When Miscarriage Teaches You Wholeness: Amelia’s Journey to Freebirth after 2 C-Sections

     Watch this episode HERE

    RBK Grad, and a brave, brilliant woman, Amelia is on the show today to share her big stories. Amelia has moved the needle bigtime in her life, from being initiated into motherhood with two entirely unnecessary, traumatic c-sections, to moving beyond the medical paradigm entirely, in her subsequent births. It’s a painful story, full of trauma, medical midwifery betrayal, a desired VBAC turned repeat surgery, and then, Amelia has a spontaneous undisturbed early birth, a miscarriage, completed at home. This is when she realized the stories she was told were lies, and that she was in fact, entirely whole, and capable of birth. Amelia stepped into who she really was, and chose freebirth, and chose herself. 

    Here’s what you’ll hear in Amelia’s story:

    ✨How Amelia excitedly called the OB with her first pregnancy and was shocked when they didn’t care

    ✨The lie of “low fluid” and how her doctor bullied her into an induction and ultimately a C-section

    ✨VBAC sabotage by a licensed midwife

    ✨How the Free Birth Society Podcast guided her to unpack her abuse and trauma, and enroll in the Radical Birth Keeper School

    ✨The conception of her third baby during school and her first freebirth: an early birth outside the system

    ✨The ease & peace of wild pregnancy and her trip to Matriarch Rising Festival

    ✨Her redemptive births and how incredible it is to feel the totality of undisturbed birth

     Follow - @circeandsage

     

    ⭐ Join the Radical Birth Keeper School! Enrollment is open NOW!

    ⭐ Don't miss the Matribirth Midwifery Institute,  Join the waitlist and receive all the details late spring

    Connect with Free Birth Society 👇

    We're *so close* to hitting our goal of videos for our Sovereign Birth collection on Youtube!  Help us get there by submitting your video here.

    Get our *FREE* Freebirth Starter Kit here!

    -Matriarch Rising Festival: Tickets are on sale NOW!  Apply here to be a work trade volunteer at this year's women-only festival in the Blue ridge Mountains.

    -The Podcast: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway – whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or to dive deeper into sovereign living. Submit your own sovereign birth story here! Want your product or brand featured on a podcast with 5M+ downloads? Request to become a podcast sponsor by emailing us at podcast@freebirthsociety.com

    -The Complete Guide to Freebirth: a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power.

    -Follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth, the sovereign birth paradigm, authentic midwifery and so much more.

    -The Lighthouse: our exclusive membership for radical, curious, wild women. We only welcome new women to our private sanctuary a few times per year.

    -Feature Emilee: If you want Emilee Saldaya, the trailblazer of the free birth movement with 20+ years of experience, on your podcast, send an invite to podcast@freebirthsociety.com

    -And, of course, we couldn’t do what we do without your support, so if you feel called to make a donation to the podcast, it would be greatly appreciated. Click here to donate.

     

     

     

    • 1 hr 19 min
    Freebirth As A Catalyst for Power with Nina Marsh

    Freebirth As A Catalyst for Power with Nina Marsh

    You can watch this episode HERE

    Today on the show, I am welcoming Nina, a graduate of The Radical Birth Keeper School. Nina lives out in northern california, and was transferred to the hospital in her first pregnancy after a planned home birth with a midwife, because her blood pressure was higher than what the midwives were willing to support. She was induced and kept in the hospital for days on end, and was imprinted with the story that she was broken and could not birth naturally. 

    Nina tells the beautiful story of her intentionally re-writing her internal stories throughout her second pregnancy, leaning more and more into trust, self-discovery, and intuition, as she prepares for her sovereign birth at home. Her freebirth story is a simple, inspiring example of how easefully birth works when we don’t complicate it, and when we do the real work of really learning to trust ourselves. This is the work that choosing sovereignty primes us for, and what Nina showcases in her powerful growth. She also shares about her amazing postpartum, and how being initiated into this redemptive birth showed her that she really can do anything - that she is the catalyst for her own power. 

    Here’s what you’ll hear in Nina’s story:

    ✨️Nina planned a home birth with her first because her mother and community all home birthed

    ✨️Up until 8 months pregnant, there were no signs of complications, and then the high blood pressure readings began

    ✨️Her midwife transferred her over the phone, and Nina got put into the induction pipeline, birthing her baby 12 hours later

    ✨️She was kept in the hospital for 4 days until her dizziness and blood pressure dropped, never once being offered blood pressure medication

    ✨️It took years for her to heal from the trauma and internalized messages of being broken and faulty

    ✨️How the RBK School blew her mind open, and she learned that women can do whatever they want in pregnancy and birth!

    ✨️How she got pregnant again and decided to have a wild pregnancy, but still monitors her blood pressure

    ✨️How self monitoring was so stress-inducing that she decided to stop, and just fully trust her body and intuition

    ✨️How her son was born at home, and how sweet and healing her postpartum time was

    ✨️How Nina’s blood pressure readings remained “high” throughout pregnancy, birth, and postpartum, but she feels vital and healthy

    ✨️How Nina knows her body is wise and that her two perfect children are proof of it!

     

    ⭐ Join the Radical Birth Keeper School Waitlist! Enrollment opens March11th! -   

    ⭐ Don't miss the Matribirth Midwifery Institute,  Join the waitlist NOW!

    Connect with Free Birth Society 👇

    We're *so close* to hitting our goal of videos for our Sovereign Birth collection on Youtube!  Help us get there by submitting your video here.

    Get our *FREE* Freebirth Starter Kit here!

    -Matriarch Rising Festival: Tickets are on sale NOW!  Apply here to be a work trade volunteer at this year's women-only festival in the Blue ridge Mountains.

    -The Podcast: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway – whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or to dive deeper into sovereign living. Submit your own sovereign birth story here! Want your product or brand featured on a podcast with 5M+ downloads? Request to become a podcast sponsor by emailing us at podcast@freebirthsociety.com

    -The Complete Guide to Freebirth: a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power.

    -Follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth, the sovereign birth paradigm, authentic midwifery and so much more.

    -The Lighthouse: our exclusive membership for radical, curious, wild women. We only welcome new women to our private sanctuary a few times per year.

    -Feature Emilee: If you want Emilee Saldaya, the trailblazer of the free birth mov

    • 56 min
    The Rebel Path: Marion’s Three Freebirths

    The Rebel Path: Marion’s Three Freebirths

    Watch this episode HERE

    Marion joins me on the show today to share her sweet undisturbed birthing stories of her three children. Each of her stories is incredibly unique, and a beautiful example of where intuition can guide a woman when she refuses to be influenced by the industrial obstetrics complex. Marion birthed her first baby, who was transverse until the very end, completely outside of the system in an 1800s cabin in the woods, with an unexpected and beautifully sweet new friend supporting her in birth. Marion’s second birth took place in a teepee outside of the schoolbus she was living in, with women from her community singing to her from outside in the rain, with just her partner and son to witness. Her most recent birth is a powerful story of passionate love and how being with a partner that you are in true, genuine union with can deeply change the experience of birth. Marion is a trailblazer of her own life, following her own compass in every step of the way - from choosing to skip birth certificates for her babies, taking one year to name her baby, and claiming radical responsibility in all circumstances of her life… It was such a joy to hear her perspective on the world through her birth stories. Here’s what you’ll hear in Marion’s story:

    ✨️How finding freebirth Facebook groups became her primary resource for research and support, and gave her the confidence she needed

    ✨️How her first baby was transverse until the very end, and how she knew he would turn during labor, and he did!

    ✨️How Marion’s friend came over to deliver a mattress and ended up staying for her entire labor, supporting her with encouraging words and singing medicine songs

    ✨️How she lived in a school bus during her 2nd pregnancy and her community put up a teepee for her to birth in, complete with a little bell she would ring if she needed something

    ✨️The sweet image of her pacing the birth teepee while in labor, being sung to by her community of women from outside, and the rain coming down

    ✨️How her third birth she was supported by a partner she was in love with and the uplevel this offered even though all her previous births were peaceful and undisturbed

    ✨️Her blissful postpartums that were fully supported by community, food, and love!

    ✨️How Marion has never put her children in diapers by practicing elimination communication and presence through attachment parenting

    ✨️How Marion didn’t get birth certificates for her first two children, but has since changed her mind and is now going through the process

    ✨️How she has taken 6 months up to a year to name each of her children, waiting for a name to drop in!

    ✨️How women can’t get out of the responsibility of their births regardless of where it happens, and who is in charge

    Check out Marion’s 13 week container for women here - https://www.marionhearth.com/

     

    ⭐ Join the Radical Birth Keeper School Waitlist! Enrollment opens March11th! -   

    ⭐ Don't miss the Matribirth Midwifery Institute,  Join the waitlist NOW!

     

    Connect with Free Birth Society 👇

    We're *so close* to hitting our goal of videos for our Sovereign Birth collection on Youtube!  Help us get there by submitting your video here.

    Get our *FREE* Freebirth Starter Kit here!

    -Matriarch Rising Festival: Tickets are on sale NOW!  Apply here to be a work trade volunteer at this year's women-only festival in the Blue ridge Mountains.

    -The Podcast: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway – whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or to dive deeper into sovereign living. Submit your own sovereign birth story here! Want your product or brand featured on a podcast with 5M+ downloads? Request to become a podcast sponsor by emailing us at podcast@freebirthsociety.com

    -COMPASS: a groundbreaking self-study program to help you anchor yourself firmly in the realm of sovereign birth, and to gain the confidence you need to lea

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