𖦹 Black Friday Sale Drops 11/29 - 40% Off Our Self-Study Courses and Private Membership! 𖦹

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

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...
View Episode

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...
View Episode

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...
View Episode

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...
View Episode

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,...
View Episode

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...
View Episode

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...
View Episode

Tackling Patriarchy through the Pelvis: An Exploration in Female Bodily Liberation through Resilience Practice and Self Responsibility

Season #4

On today’s episode, we have Maura Sternberg: a healer dedicated to pelvic integrity, and the radical self-responsibility of the women she serves. We dive deep into the lineages of mainstream self-care practices, and...
View Episode

A History Lesson on the American Obstetrician Take Over of 1750-1820

Season #4

Before OBGYNs, stirrups, and forceps, there were wise women, herbal remedies, and soft touches. The procedures which we now view as “normal” in the birth world are actually a fairly recent addition to the patriarchal...
View Episode

The Wild Mother’s Medicine Chest with Arielle de Martinez

Season #4

Arielle de Martinez is Free Birth Society’s in-house healer and herbalist who has spent the duration of her motherhood journey navigating illness outside of the system. She mentors mothers about plant medicine and...
View Episode

The Time is NOW: Rebecca’s Freebirth after NHS Sabotage

Season #4

It was following the death of her father, that Rebecca got total clarity that it was time to call in her children. Rebecca shares about the harassment she dealt with from the NHS midwives in England, and how medical...
View Episode

It Was Just Perfect: Omni’s Freebirth

Season #4

After finding out she was pregnant just 3 months into her relationship, Omni shares her story of stepping into full trust of herself and her baby. She speaks about letting it be easy, awakening to her instincts and...
View Episode