Free Birth Society

On the show today I have Simone, from Australia, sharing her heart wrenching story of losing her 2.5 year old daughter and just 12 days later free birthing her second daughter. She tells us of the gutting journey of going through her wild pregnancy while navigating the allopathic system for Evie - trying to maintain autonomy and dignity for her family amongst providers who were left astounded at h...

Today on the show I invite back (for the 5th time!) the brilliant Kristin Hauser. Kristin, the co leader of the Blood Mysteries School, a womb and sexual health educator, an experienced freebirthing mom and good friend of mine, brings the story of her third birth, at home, surrounded by family. She tells of the joyful emergence of her son, her daughter's excited response, and the healing power of...

This week on the show I talk with the sweet and courageous Kelsey who shares her big stories of sexual abuse, teen motherhood, and becoming wheelchair bound with MS. In her most recent pregnancy, she experienced a true 12 month pregnancy which she contributed to being, at the time, a fruitarian. Kelsey tells us the wild story of fleeing from Taiwan in labor and barely getting off the plane in time...

This week we have my friend Karlin on the show, sharing her journey into sovereignty. Karlin’s first experience of pregnancy ended in an abortion in the medical system, which came with it many lessons for her to digest.  When her second pregnancy ended in a first trimester early birth, she turned to her partner, the land, and the wisdom of her own body to find her way forward.  Her third...

Today I bring you Dr. Rebecca Cohen’s wild journey from indoctrination into the obstetrics system, to serving as a radical, holistically-hearted birthkeeper. After almost dropping out of medical school several times during her training and residency, Rebecca finally got through the “hazing process” and became known as the “natural OB”. After having her own children, Rebecca decided to step away fr...

Today I am bringing you a very special episode with my dear friend and one of my mentors, Elder Midwife Sister Morningstar. Sister Morningstar played a big part in last year’s Matriarch Rising Festival, and this conversation was actually recorded for the Virtual Matriarch Rising Festival Bundle that we offered in the fall of 2022! In this episode, Sister brings us a much-needed, mother-centered pe...

Roxane, a Radical Birth Keeper School graduate from Belgium, had her first baby via c-section after finding out she was positioned breech. Roxane suffered a horrible, life-threatening complication from the surgery 6 days postpartum, and decided shortly after there was no way she would go back to birth in the hospital ever again. Roxane stayed steadfast to her vision and birthed her second daughter...

To kick off 2023, I'm bringing you a mind-blowing wild pregnancy story with quite the plot twist!  At a supposed 44 weeks gestation with no signs of labor, Rachel began to backtrack on her conception timeline and realized that she actually conceived this baby shortly after an early pregnancy loss at around 9 weeks. Since she hadn't tracked the bleeding as a miscarriage, she went on with her p...

I'm excited to share with you all today Janessa's beautiful freebirth story, which is truly a reclamation of so many parts of her first birth, a hospital birth. After she consistently gave her power away in her first pregnancy and birth, by the time she got pregnant again, she knew she was going to do things very differently. With her second daughter, Janessa chose a peaceful pregnancy over a preg...

Felicity is a formerly registered midwife with the National Health Service (NHS), the publicly funded healthcare system in England. She had wanted to be a mother ever since she was a little girl, and midwifery seemed like the most aligned career for her- until she woke up to the reality that she was assisting in the violence and sabotage of mothers and babies in birth by attending them in the hosp...

Tati had been attending women as a doula for years, first in her homeland of Brazil, and then in Germany. But when she got pregnant, she could no longer stand to witness the abuse in the medical system and spent her pregnancy and birth unwinding from the traumas she had seen. She chose freebirth, held by her friends and partner. Tati's birth of her daughter was a medicine ceremony: complete with r...

Today on the show, we have a rather unique story: a solo mother who chose to freebirth entirely alone. Jenni is a first-time mom who knew freebirth was her path right from the start. After a simple and integrated wild pregnancy, Jenni birthed her daughter completely alone in her garden in just a few hours, start to finish! In this episode, we talk about how Jenni's mental fortitude through years o...

With her first pregnancy, Ita wholeheartedly trusted her medical midwife and OBGYN to give her the gentle, natural birth she wanted. After her OB told her she had to be induced due to her baby’s “abnormal kidney size”, she was left with a surgical birth that completely wrecked her first couple years of postpartum. When she got pregnant again, she found a Radical Birth Keeper School graduate and ot...

Despite learning in her pregnancy that the baby she was growing would be incompatible with life, Amana, as a first time mother, decided to go forward with her plan to birth her daughter at home. Through this first birth experience, she learned that birth and death are one. Amana shares with us today the wisdom of a resilient woman who has walked through the fires of freebirth, death, life, and los...

Today, I’m sharing with you all a conversation I recently recorded with Yolande Norris-Clark, the co-creator of the Radical Birth Keeper School and the Complete Guide to Freebirth. We discuss vaginal exams, rape culture, the romanticization of indigenous and traditional midwifery, radical birth keeping, freebirth, and the power dynamics of industrial obstetrics. What we know of birth has been inev...

Also known as "the ocean lady", Josy from Germany went viral earlier this year for the birth she had always dreamed of- her freebirth in the oceans of Nicaragua. Today, Josy shares her story of her super fast, simple birth in the waves, how she's integrated her experience, and what it's been like having such a public, popular birth story. Enjoy! Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/DmV_...

Emily, a graduate of the Radical Birth Keeper School, shares with us today her journey from maiden to mother. In her pregnancy, she navigated loneliness, cutting off most of her family and friends, and setting boundaries to protect the energetic field of herself and her pregnancy. In this episode, we discuss the importance of the postpartum time, how she found a community of like-minded sisters in...

The 40-week wild pregnancy wrap up episode (round 2) is here! My best friend, partner, and beloved husband Jonny and I did this in my first pregnancy and here we are again, recording on my actual 40th week date. We’ll walk through the year of my wild pregnancy, I’ll share the highs and lows, and then we’ll tackle a bunch of questions you all sent in to us. Please enjoy our giggly attempt to have a...

Whitney joins us today to tell the stories of her two freebirths in the past two years: her first, with her husband and her sister present, and her second, in an RV supported again by her family for the slow emergence of her son. Whitney shares the power of witnessing other women walk through wild pregnancy and freebirth in our private online membership, and reflects on how grateful she is to have...

Today we have Chantal telling us her stories of 3 full-term pregnancies, and 3 pregnancy losses in 5 different countries. She speaks to how she navigated foreign cultures and governmental systems as an expat, & shares her journey from a medicalized, torturous birth, to a birth-center birth, and then a wildly simple freebirth at home. We also discuss the disruption of her postpartum time by hav...

To kick off the sixth season and the 200TH (!!!) episode of The Free Birth Society Podcast, we have one of my very best friends, Arielle de Martinez! You may remember her from her herbalism episode previously on the podcast, and today she shares her journey from a manufactured emergency c-section with her first daughter to her simple, perfect community-supported freebirth with her second daughter....

We’re closing out an incredible Season 5 with Molly from France. After an unexpected pregnancy at a young age, Molly describes her traumatic birth with her first daughter as a "a second rape". She suffered physically, mentally, and emotionally, and promised herself she'd never give birth in a hospital again. With her second pregnancy, she dreamed of a freebirth, and with her third, she brought her...

From the jungles of Costa Rica, Luba tells us the stories of expanding and surrendering through her pregnancies and births. We discuss birth as authentic self-expression, pleasure and orgasm in pregnancy and labor, and committing to bringing the birth of her dreams to fruition. Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/5hpOEOr9EW4   JOIN US AT MATRIARCH RISING FESTIVAL | JUNE 19-24, 2...

Today, Shayoon tells us the stories of the births of her two sons: her first in Ibiza, Spain, with a male doctor in her home, and her second, a freebirth in Bali. In this episode, Shayoon speaks of her experiences with typhoid during pregnancy, the healing powers of plant medicine, consistently clearing fear and stress from her birthing space- and how she experienced complete healing in her matern...

After a sabotaged first birth with medical midwives, Madison began her mothering journey feeling depleted. When she fired her medical midwife in her second pregnancy, Madison fully embraced the idea of a normal, peaceful pregnancy and an undisturbed birth. Today, we discuss the normalcy and wildness of birth, the importance of finding community who really "get it", and what it means to put your li...