Emilee Saldaya

Free Birth Society

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...

Author

Emilee Saldaya

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Education

Podcast website

www.Freebirthsociety.com

Latest episode

Dec 12, 2025

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Episodes

Becoming the Matriarch Who Freebirths 18.04.2025

Today on the podcast, Rosie shares her massive transformation from a people pleasing daughter archetype to a fierce freebirthing wild mother. She shares how her journey was shaped by a difficult family dynamic, to the grief of losing her father, to living on the road with her husband and children during 2020. Rosie shares the birth of her first child in a birth center, her excruciating second birt...

The German Legend and Her 9 Freebirths 11.04.2025

On today’s episode, freebirth legend Sarah Schmid shares the story of 10 children, 9 of them being freebirths, several born outside and a set of twins. After a midwife-attended homebirth with interference in her birth, Sarah learned that she was the only one who knew her body, and chose freebirth for her family after that. Sarah tells the epic story of her first freebirth in the forest completely...

From People Pleasing to Embodiment: Choosing to Birth Alone 04.04.2025

Today on the podcast, Abby shares her full 180-degree shift in mindset from being a pawn of the medical system throughout her growing years, to then becoming a wild, embodied mother, birthing her son entirely alone in her bathtub. After a medical midwife sabotaged Abby’s (surprise) breech homebirth with her first son, she decides never again to allow another person to take her power away from her....

A Finnish Freebirth After Preterm Loss and a Vertical Incision 28.03.2025

Today on the podcast, Radical Birth Keeper School graduate, Eveliina shares her three unique birth stories. At 30 weeks with her second child, Eveliina experienced bleeding and was coerced into an “emergency” c-section, leaving her with a painful vertical incision. The death of her daughter woke up Eveliina’s inner mother lion. With Eveliina’s third pregnancy, she had a wild pregnancy and freebirt...

The Olive Oil Queen’s Sovereign Birth 21.03.2025

Mia, The Olive Oil Queen, shares her sweet story of sovereign birth as a first-time mom, supported by one of our Radical Birth Keeper graduates. Mia’s love of birth first came after witnessing a friend’s psychedelic birth at home where she was able to help care for her friend in her postpartum time. After becoming pregnant herself, Mia walked through her wild pregnancy fighting off negative commen...

When Freebirth Heals Your Birth Trauma 14.03.2025

“I felt like I was in hell.”  On today’s episode, Fanika shares the dehumanizing story of the birth of her first baby in a hospital in Florida. From non-consenting vaginal exams to a painful vacuum extraction birth, Fanika left her first birth feeling raped, disillusioned, and disembodied.  Robbed of her first birth and devastated to discover she had no legal recourse, Fanika finds the F...

From Maiden to Mother: A Radical Birth Keeper’s Rise to Power 07.03.2025

Today on the podcast, Kate from Santa Cruz shares the finding of her soul’s calling in sovereign birth-work and how that led to creating a thriving women’s circle community. After graduating from The Radical Birth Keeper School, Kate quickly began attending sovereign births in her community. Tune in to hear the powerful story of a young woman becoming mother, how attending women birthing in power...

First Time Mom Freebirths in Manchester, England 28.02.2025

Today on the podcast, Kacea shares her beautiful freebirth story. Her journey to freebirth is a wonderful representation of the sovereign birth movement making its way through the world. From her upbringing with a mother who birthed at home, to having an entire friend group of freebirthers, Kacea was able to deter any negativity and fear that was brought her way, and with the support of her partne...

Navigating Stillbirth with Death Midwife & Funeral Director Dr. Ivy 22.02.2025

Funeral director and death midwife, Dr. Ivy Margulies, is helping families to navigate a peaceful way of walking with the loss of a baby. She talks about the logistics and laws of stillbirth, the importance of a death plan, home funerals, and ways to commemorate the child.  Follow Dr Ivy on Instagram @drivymargulies https://www.drivylove.com ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membershi...

Surviving the Loss of Twins and a Smear Campaign in Australia 07.02.2025

Sally shares her heart wrenching story of birthing her twin boys at home and the vicious nationwide media attacks that followed after one of the boys was stillborn and the other passed away shortly after.   Follow Sally on Instagram @sallypatti ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” - Doors open February 24th for just a few short days! - https://w...

How to Thrive in the New Paradigm with Dr. Jen Tice 31.01.2025

In order to find solutions, you must articulate the problem. It’s undeniable as we look around our country that children are sick and suffering. Today, with my naturopathic doctor and friend, Dr. Jen Tice, we tackle the main contributing factors to why our American children are so sick. In part 2 of this episode we explore tangible accessible solutions that we can apply to our lives today.  F...

Choosing Intuition Over Medical Advice 24.01.2025

Joy hired the same medical midwife for her first three home births. However, after the midwife completely sabotaged her third birth, Joy decided to never work with her again. When she got pregnant with her fourth she chose to have a freebirth and tells the story of her peaceful pregnancy and the beautiful experience of being the first person to pick up her baby.   Follow Joy in Instagram...

Freebirth at 45 in Australia 17.01.2025

Chrissy was called to motherhood in her 40’s and navigated a miscarriage and D&C with her first pregnancy, and then a highly medicalized pregnancy and birth with her second. With her third pregnancy she let go of the “high risk” and “geriatric” labels, fired her midwife at 42 weeks, and chose to freebirth her son. Follow Chrissy on Instagram: @chrissybethhubbard ✨The Blood Mysteries School is...

Birthing Outside the Medical System with Brain Tumors 10.01.2025

Brittany was diagnosed with brain tumors at the age of 20 and was told she’d never get pregnant and it was too dangerous to give birth. After seven years of failed IVF and surrogacy attempts, Brittany decided to try to get pregnant naturally, and to the surprise of all her doctors, she did. During her first birth and through the pregnancy of her second, Brittany started to reclaim her authority an...

Freebirthing After Placenta Previa in Ireland 03.01.2025

Epic Irish poet, Siobhan, is on the show today sharing her wild story from a dehumanizing hospital birth, placenta previa, to freebirth.  Follow Siobhan @Siobhandepaor_focail ✨ MRF tickets are now LIVE! Join us for our annual women’s gathering   https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨ Initiated Woman is coming up! Join us in January for this FREE, life-changing 3-part series to init...

From “High Risk” to Ecstasy: Kurin's Three Births 27.12.2024

Moving from admittedly loving the drama of her high risk label, inductions, and medical providers to really clarifying what she wants and why - Kurin tells the beautiful story of her three births. Follow @Kurinadele ✨ Join REIGN ~ Emilee Saldaya’s action-oriented coaching container that is guaranteed to elevate you into your next phase of life for 2025 - ⁠https://www.freebirthsociety.com/reign⁠...

When Your Ancestors Tell You to Freebirth 20.12.2024

Emma spent her 20’s as an anarchist who didn’t want children, until one day she was hit with the primal need to become a mother.  Through shamanic drum journeys, she heard the messages of her ancestors telling her to freebirth, telling her that they had been waiting for a woman in their lineage to call upon their support.  Emma beautifully articulates her journey through her wild pregnan...

The Ripple Effect of Freebirth in Rural Western North Carolina 13.12.2024

Morgan talks about choosing freebirth as a first time mother and the ripple effects it’s had on her family, and tight knit community in rural WNC.  ✨Join us for our annual women’s gathering   https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Free...

Live Show in Austin, Texas 06.12.2024

Today we are thrilled to be sharing our episode from the FIRST EVER LIVE SHOW from this past November in Austin, Texas. It was so fun to do this IRL and get to sit with my guest on stage, surrounded by so many amazing pod supporters. This is *not* a story to miss, check it out: An unwanted induction led Kait to a homebirth with a medical midwife for her second. In her third pregnancy, she felt rea...

The Courage to Deprogram and Freebirth in Denmark 22.11.2024

Rachel is an American woman living in Denmark who shares the poetic story of birthing her two sons. Her first birth was wrought with sabotage, manipulation, and abuse, which took her years to fully unpack. With the help of this very podcast, Rachel takes on the courageous task of naming what truly happened and claiming a better birth with her second.  Rachel talks about her big life shift mov...

Leaving NHS Midwifery for Sovereign Birth 15.11.2024

Livi was a NHS student midwife for three years, admittedly betraying her true calling to serve women in a holistic way. Livi goes on to birth her baby freely at home opening up a whole world of possibility. Livi is now a Radical Birth Keeper Graduate and serves her local community.  ✨Join Emilee and the FBS Podcast *LIVE* in Austin, Texas 11/16/24! Get your tickets at - https://www.capcityco...

A Vaccine Injured First Time Mom’s Breech Freebirth 08.11.2024

Lesia developed a seizure disorder as a result of a vaccine injury at the age of four.  When she got pregnant the first time she started seeing an OB, then hired a doula, and began planning for a secret homebirth.  When she found out her baby was breech, she still decided to stay home and freebirthed her baby at 42 weeks.  Lesia goes on to tell the story of her wild pregnancy, heali...

Freebirth After Medical Kidnapping in New Orleans 01.11.2024

Birth keeper Aisaba is on the show today sharing her five birth stories and all the deprogramming that has happened along the way. Aisaba has deeply experienced the negative cost of birth in the system, from unnecessary c-sections, to painful inductions, and the medical kidnapping of her newborn. She shares about her powerful lessons that brought her to finally freebirthing her most recent baby.&n...

Chanting Gratitude: Freebirth After a Broken Pelvis 18.10.2024

By the age of 12 Cheyenne had survived spinal surgery, drug addiction, and a near death car accident that left her with a broken pelvis and an internal infection. Through years of therapy and deep healing work, Cheyenne met her partner and decided to consciously conceive and freebirth her baby. She’s now a Radical Birth Keeper Graduate and a student at MMI with us, learning to support women in the...

Freebirth in the Middle East 11.10.2024

Originally from Tunisia, Houyem tells the story of her three births. Houyem recalls the moment she realized she could just stay home and how this begins to shape how she serves and inspires birthing women in the Middle East. ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at https...

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