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 hospital. In this episode, we discuss the brainwashing that took place in her schooling and trainings, t...
Dec 09, 2022•1 hr 15 min
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 reverence, prayer, and song, all ending in the integration of a beautiful mother and woman. Watch thi...
Dec 02, 2022•55 min
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 of yoga, meditation, and solo hiking set her up to experience what birth could be like for ALL women ...
Nov 18, 2022•38 min
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 other wise women to walk with her completely outside of the medical system. With her second daughter, ...
Nov 11, 2022•1 hr 11 min
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 loss, again and again. Watch this episode on Youtube! https://youtu.be/iNIBHj0xbVU APPLY FOR THE RADICA...
Nov 04, 2022•57 min
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 inevitably filtered through the medical industry. But what is the TRUTH about birth? Join us as we hop R...
Oct 28, 2022•1 hr 7 min
Today on the show we have my friend, Virginia. Virginia’s pregnancy with her first daughter was characterized by the RhoGAM shot, threats of induction, and a last minute transfer from a birth center to a homebirth. Although she birthed at home, Virginia shares her anger around being gaslit and forced to push by her medical midwifery team. With her second pregnancy, Virginia knew she was ready to reclaim what was lost in her first birth, and birthed her son in total Shakti power. Watch this episo...
Oct 21, 2022•1 hr 16 min
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_l8090nA APPLY FOR THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.radicalbirthkeeperschool.com GET THE ...
Oct 14, 2022•26 min
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 Radical Birth Keeper School, and how she welcomed her son into the world with her husband as he...
Oct 07, 2022•51 min
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 real conversation while I’m floating away into laborland. I’ll see you all on the other side! Watch...
Sep 30, 2022•1 hr 27 min
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 created the life she is living. Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/_e8VQGqDii0 GET T...
Sep 23, 2022•38 min
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 having to immediately interface with the system to obtain a birth record. Chantal’s story is a lighthou...
Sep 16, 2022•58 min
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. Arielle and her family traveled at 40 weeks to be near us to birth, and the ripple effects of her p...
Sep 09, 2022•1 hr 28 min
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 dream to fruition-after removing herself from the spiral of medical pathology, and choosing a peace...
Sep 04, 2022•42 min
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, 2022: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/matriarchrising GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://w...
Sep 04, 2022•49 min
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 maternal lineage through remaining true to trusting in her body. Watch this interview on Youtube: https://...
Sep 04, 2022•56 min
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 life (and your needs) first. Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/uvdafLItEIM JOIN US AT ...
Sep 04, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Anna, a Radical Birth Keeper School graduate, shares with us all today the simple beauty of her RBK-attended first birth. Surrounded by song, sisters, and silence, Anna talks about being surprised by how easy the whole birth process was, the psychedelic postpartum phase, navigating tongue ties and lip ties, and experiencing breastfeeding grief. Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/I0Ue0IlEGuw JOIN US AT MATRIARCH RISING FESTIVAL | JUNE 19-24, 2022: https://www.freebirthsocietycourse...
Sep 04, 2022•53 min
This week, we have Emily, a former Labor & Delivery nurse turned freebirthing-mother! After starting nursing school when she was pregnant with her first daughter, Emily quickly realized that licensure and hospital policies trump all else, and advocating for your patients can only go so far. After her birth with her second son, she removed herself from the medical system altogether, and went on to have a wild pregnancy and a (surprise breech!) freebirth with her third. Watch this interview on...
Sep 04, 2022•59 min
This week on the show, we have Maria from Finland. She tells us about her conscious conception journeys, beginning with meeting her husband in ceremony after a spiritual awakening, and then a near-death accident that solidified her journey of following her heart and her gut instincts in wild pregnancy and freebirth. We also discuss lotus birth, the necessary social aspect of postpartum care, and remembering the ancient ways of sacred birth. Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/ZgC6A...
Sep 04, 2022•53 min
Today, I'm talking with Anna from Sweden. As an RH negative, first-time mom, Anna was swept up in the fearmongering and control of the hospital system. Despite having what she thought at the time was a "natural" hospital birth, she entered motherhood feeling alone. As she started questioning everything that had happened during her birth, she found freebirth! With her second daughter, Anna went from questioning everything, to knowing what to do as she brought her into the world, surrounded by fam...
Sep 04, 2022•41 min
Today on the show we have Anna, who shares her story of saying "yes" to a wild pregnancy and freebirth as a first-time mom. Her deep-rooted trust in the innate intelligence of her body allowed her to experience nearly *zero* fear, as she brought her baby earthside in love, patience, and ease. Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/M0VyaBxrzT0 JOIN US AT MATRIARCH RISING FESTIVAL | JUNE 19-24, 2022: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/matriarchrising GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEB...
Sep 04, 2022•52 min
Today on the show, I'm talking with my friend, Sylvie. Sylvie's first birth with medical midwives left her unpacking the dynamic for months, and questioning her capacity as a mother. Supported by The Free Birth Society Community Membership, she committed to her own healing. Sylvie joyfully welcomed in a wild pregnancy and freebirth with her second baby. In this episode, we discuss physiological placental birth, intuition, and how birth has the capacity to leave us feeling deeply renewed and rebo...
Sep 04, 2022•55 min
From the fertile land of Costa Rica, today Estonia shares the glorious stories of her two births. In this episode, we discuss Estonia’s spiritual conscious conceptions, the divine initiations of pregnancy as deep shadow work, and embracing the ebb and flow of life as a resilient, powerful, and autonomous single mom. Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/jZR67CuOnuI JOIN US AT MATRIARCH RISING FESTIVAL | JUNE 19-24, 2022: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/matriarchrising GET THE...
Sep 04, 2022•1 hr 16 min
After a fiery and fast initiation into motherhood, Christine dove into everything "birth" and enrolls in the first round of The Radical Birth Keeper School. Today, she tells us her story of a lifetime of manifesting her motherhood, practicing living in trust, and having the peaceful, casual Friday afternoon freebirth with her second son, that was everything she wanted. Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/x-SjbqqTjiY JOIN US AT MATRIARCH RISING FESTIVAL | JUNE 19-24, 2022: https://w...
Sep 04, 2022•55 min
On this very special episode today, Dr. Melissa Sell breaks down the 5 Biological Laws of German New Medicine. We go beyond the body/mind connection, and enter into layers of healing that are completely paradigm-shifting. German New Medicine returns us to a simple truth- the body is ALWAYS healing, and is our wisest teacher. We discuss how to understand your individual symptoms, how healthcare can never be a "one size fits all", and how radical responsibility comes into play when rethinking sick...
Sep 04, 2022•1 hr 13 min
On the podcast today, Chelsea tells us the story of her transition into autonomous, powerful motherhood after a hospital birth, pregnancy loss, and midwifery abandonment. Her journey is one of animal medicine, spirit babies, radical birth keeping, & finding and claiming her center. She shares with us what it was like being on the road with her family for her last pregnancy and of her experience being attended in birth by a fellow Radical Birth Keeper School graduate. There are THREE days lef...
Sep 04, 2022•1 hr 18 min
Today I'm bringing you a very special episode, with the infamous and highly esteemed guest (and my best friend), Yolande Norris-Clark. Together, we share our origin story of becoming friends over the internet, and how we chose, from two different countries, to join forces to change the world. We share about the early stages of dreaming up the Radical Birth Keeper School and the lessons we've learned along the way. We get into our thoughts about making money, our numerous collective and individua...
Sep 04, 2022•1 hr 41 min
Caitlyn is a midwife from South Africa who long dreamt of attending birthing women in integrity, but kept coming up against the hypocrisy of the medicalized midwifery world. She brings to us today her story of unraveling herself from the regulations and culture of licensed midwifery, how she navigated being investigated by the Department of Health, and how she found her way forward in authentic midwifery through taking The Radical Birth Keeper School. Watch this interview on Youtube: https://you...
Sep 04, 2022•1 hr 11 min
Today on the show, I'm talking with my friend Vivian about birth as a catalyst for deep maturation. With her first baby, Vivian had a medicalized birth, and although she freebirthed her second son, she brought him into the hospital two days postpartum. She left (eleven days later) with a commitment to do things differently the next time around. Vivian's third birth was powerful and glorious, and she speaks about how it even healed her relationship with her own mother. Watch this interview on You...
Sep 04, 2022•53 min
