Free Birth Society

Free Birth Society

Hosted by: Emilee Saldaya

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...

Episodes

The Wild Vortex of Birth

Season #5

Today we have Natalie from Australia sharing her story of the journey to freebirth with her second son. After finding the Free Birth Society Podcast in her early postpartum days with her first baby, Natalie vowed to...
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Back In Her Body: Kelly's Chrysalis Freebirth

Season #5

Kelly had a unfortunate and classic first time hospital birth, with all of the interventions. Following her sabatoged first birth experience, she had a hard time breastfeeding, and therefore, an insecure and...
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"Womancraft: A Witch's Awakening" with Kate Varsava

Season #5

I'm so excited to bring this conversation to you- it's with my dear friend, Kate Varsava, aka @yourlocalmidwitch- and the announcment that we have today is that her new course, "Womancraft: A Witch's Awakening" is...
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Ending Generational Trauma Cycles with Freebirth

Season #5

This week on the show we have Sasha, who tells us the story of how she paved the way for the rest of her lineage, how she learned to trust herself, and checked herself out of the hospital, in labor, to have her baby...
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"If You Know Grief, You Will Know Love": Celia's Surprise Twin Freebirth

Season #5

We are kicking off Season 5 of the Free Birth Society Podcast with an incredible SURPRISE TWINS story!   With her first birth, Celia was put through the conveyer belt of industrial obstetrics, but as she reflected on...
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Into the Eyes of a Warrior: Eliza’s Family Freebirth

Season #4

Today on the show, we have the wild and wise Eliza, a Hungarian born woman, living in France with her beloved. This is a romantic tale of a new love, a surprise pregnancy, and a young woman hiring a midwife, and then...
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Finding Freebirth with Four Daughters

Season #4

Today, Jessica brings us the beautiful story of a mother reckoning with her inner authority as she navigates her way through multiple births. From her first baby being born at a hospital, to a “party birth” with her...
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Freebirthing with Shoulder Dystocia, Regretting the NICU, and Flourishing

Season #4

On today’s show, Sarah shares a common and familiar story of women who trade in their pregnancy and birth desires in order to make other people comfortable. With her first child, Sarah had a homebirth, but many of the...
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My Redemption Birth: Najma’s FBAC in Egypt

Season #4

FBAC: Free Birth After Cesarean. After being deemed high-risk in her first pregnancy- despite feeling great and not presenting with any issues- Najma was taken down the conveyor belt of industrial birth. After hours...
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The Anarchist Who Freebirthed All 6 of Her Children

Season #4

Mary Lou lived an anarchist lifestyle before getting pregnant, and when it came time for her to birth, choosing to birth outside of the system was a no-brainer. Her first pregnancy was completely and intuitively wild,...
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Unpacking the Historical and Epigenetic Context of Black Maternal Health with Olivyah Bowens

Season #4

In honor of Black Maternal Health Week, we have doula- turned -Radical Birth Keeper, Olivyah Bowens, from Baltimore, Maryland on the show today. Olivyah is a mother of two, a perinatal community health worker, a...
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The Triple Freebirth: IUD, Baby, Loss

Season #4

Rebecca left her first hospital birth thinking that the doctors saved her life. She went on to become a doula in the system, but all that did was normalize her traumatic birth experience. After removing her IUD...
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