Free Birth Society

This week on the show we have Tatiana, who freebirthed her second daughter 8 years after her first birth. Sadly, her first birth was completely sabotaged by an irresponsible midwife who abandoned Tatiana after days of attempting an induction. So, Tatiana took her time and did the work of healing until she was ready again. When she became ready, Tatiana staked her claim and birthed entirely her way...

We have a fierce episode for you today with the epicly powerful Dominique Christina. A spoken word poet, writer, mother, and radical feminist, Dominque shares her life’s story of owning her voice and committing to truth telling. Get ready to interrogate, unpack, and detonate with today’s unapologetic guest.  Disclaimer: Free Birth Society, LLC of North Carolina shares personal and educational...

During Sparrow’s freebirth, she found herself unable to release her bladder. When she arrived at the hospital seeking a catheter, instead - she was misdiagnosed with HIV and given a c-section. She was kept from breastfeeding, harassed by social services, and spent the following few days in a nightmarish hell as she fought for herself and her new baby.    So, this episode is Sparrow’s sto...

After pregnancy loss and a break up, Samantha begins a journey with a new relationship to call in her baby. This is a powerful story of a brave woman who used her anxiety as a flag for what to move towards and away from. It's a story of a woman who committed to following her instincts in spite of a nervous partner. and it is a story of the quiet strength of a wild woman becoming a fierce mother. D...

Today on the show we have Laney from Texas. After a coerced and stressful induction with her first child, Laney knew it had to be different the second time. Witnessed by her husband and her friend, Laney freebirthed her daughter into this world, entirely on her own terms.  Disclaimer: Free Birth Society, LLC of North Carolina shares personal and educational stories and experiences related to...

I am grateful to be bringing you the story of a wise woman with quite the story to tell. Shanika is from Jamaica, currently living in Atlanta, Ga, and is both a free birther and a Radical Birth Keeper. She tells us of her first birth at 17 and then the tragic tale of her daughter's death three years later. And yet, in the loss of her daughter, Shanika had a true spiritual awakening, and became the...

This week we have the lovely Bec from Australia who finally decided with her third baby to stop compromising her vision and had a glorious home birth with her daughter, which both challenged her marriage and the previous stories she’d been told about her body in birth. Bec is a doula turned radical birth keeper who shares how she chose to hop out of the machine and live her life aligned with her t...

Today on the show we have Jaime, who shares the heartbreaking story of her first two children born in the system, and the insightful reflections of her experience. Jaime shares the incredible story of her choice to leave the system and birth in sovereignty, while navigating her 3 year olds brain tumor diagnosis and surgery. This is a beautiful tale of a woman finding her voice in her marriage and...

I’m joined today by Sarah, calling in from her yurt on Maui, Hawaii. On the same day she decided to leave her partner, Sarah, at 22 years of age, was shocked to discover she was unexpectedly pregnant. This episode is a poetic tale of a young woman turning towards trust, surrendering to the great mystery, and learning to choose herself, fully. Sarah shares about her wild pregnancy, and of the lesso...

I am thrilled to be bringing you Rae’s story this week on the show. Rae is a fiercely intuitive mother from Trinidad, who shares everything from her decision not to get the rhogam shot, to using psychedelics to prepare her mind and spirit for freebirth, even how she self pleasured herself into labor. This is not one to miss! Disclaimer: Free Birth Society, LLC of North Carolina shares personal and...

Today on the show we have Anastasia from Seattle, Washington. A self declared recovering people pleaser, Anastasia chose to stay home to birth her child, alone and in the dark. The mantra she carried with her throughout her birth was to whisper to herself, "I die to be reborn, I die to be reborn". She tells us the gorgeous story of how she brought her child earth side with the support of her ances...

We are kicking off Season 4 with an amazing free birth after c-section story. I'm excited to introduce to you, our first guest of Season 4, my amazing friend Jess, from Arizona. She chose a free birth after her first birth resulted in a fear mongering c-section due to breech presentation. Tired of being pathologized in the system, Jess began to feel the presence of her daughter, and she turned to...

Kim is an international sex coach and one of my personal inspirations for how she shows up in the world. So this episode dives into the concept of the “Well Fucked Woman” and we cover some of the tools of how to get there. We also unpack the jade egg and what to do about it, and what does it mean to be in our sexual power with a healthy vagina and pelvic floor. *If you don’t already know this abou...

Today we are joined by Pam, who shares the powerful discovery of her own maternal power. After a forced c section because she and her baby were both surely too big, she knew what had happened was wrong and it could never happen again. So then she tried medical midwifery, and shares the complicated terrain of achieving a VBAC at home but still being left knowing she had been sabotaged and pathologi...

We are celebrating two incredible things with this week’s episode, Nancy’s recent freebirth, and the launch of her latest course, Conscious Conception: Welcoming Your Spirit Baby Home. We get into both incredible topics in our discussion today, so if conscious conception is a new topic for you, be sure to tune in. Nancy shares about what turned out to be, a 45 minute birth with the baby born in hi...

Today we have a special episode with a first time mom in our community. Clarke found a registered midwife to attend her that also held willingness to center the mother, in her entirety. I thought this story was worth telling on our “Free Birth” podcast as it highlights how determined pregnant women can hone in on what they want and actually get it! Midwife attended births, of course, can be wonder...

Left feeing unsatisfied with the total lack of support she received from her midwife the first time around, Carlita knew with her next pregnancy that she’d be doing it alone, on her own terms. Supported by her husband, Carlita birthed her son into the world just five weeks ago, under a global lockdown, wild and free. Disclaimer: Free Birth Society, LLC of North Carolina shares personal and educati...

This week I’m joined by Sadie, a new mother that just free birthed her first full term child not long ago. Sadie first, a few years ago, experienced a pregnancy loss late in her second trimester and chose to stay home and spontaneously birth her precious stillborn son. After dreaming of her daughter, she easily conceived her and committed to the high vibrational work of wild pregnancy. With the su...

Concluding our Radical Birth Keeper Series we have an experienced traditional birth attendant, Lilly. Lilly was trained as a medical midwife and quickly came to learn she would be no such provider. Instead, she found her way through traditional apprenticeships and trusting the call to serve women in a way that felt safest - with mothers at the center. Lilly shares how her own birth was a journey i...

This week on the show we have the lovely Leisa Masters, a radical birth keeper in Australia. As Leisa shares her journey from doula to coach, we get into the doula climate, money, integrity, and she describes the lightbulb moment when she learned how to stop "saving" women and show up for them in mutual responsibility.  Disclaimer: Free Birth Society, LLC of North Carolina shares personal and...

This week I have Kate on the show, who shares her story of leaving behind her doula path for something that felt more in alignment with her integrity; midwifery outside the system. Kate also tells the gorgeous story of the birth of her own daughter and how her radical work as a birth keeper informed her decisions to have the birth of her dreams. Disclaimer: Free Birth Society, LLC of North Carolin...

April is Radical Birth Keeper Month! Every Friday in April we will journey through a different woman's story of her becoming a radical birth keeper. Today I am joined by a dear friend of mine, Isabella. Isabella was a doula in New York City, until this past year, when she made the decision to question everything that felt wrong about her chosen path, and create a better one. Isabella shares her ch...

This week I invite Jennifer Lahl on the show, who is the Founder and President for the Center for Bioethics and Culture, based in San Francisco. She’s also a documentary producer, having created important films like Eggspoitation and Big Fertility. Today we discuss some of the health risks of egg harvesting and of being a surrogate, as well as some of the deeply concerning language in surrogacy co...

I am joined today by Nancy Lucina, our in-house shamanic facilitator and spiritual guide. Today we check in with Nancy to hear what she has to share on how to tune into a love filled frequency during these stressful times. "All the right things, at all the right times, in all the right ways, for myself and the highest good of all involved, may it be so." Stay tuned for her meditation and song offe...

Today I have my friend Simone on the show who tells us the story of her first baby that was born free, outside under a tree, in Mexico. Simone came to choose free birth from watching her own cat give birth, and tells us how it all began with the thought, “If a cat can do it, I can do it.” And so she did.  Disclaimer: Free Birth Society, LLC of North Carolina shares personal and educational st...