"I didn’t know the term freebirth or even that it was an actual practice until halfway through my pregnancy. When I first found out I was about 4 weeks pregnant, it came as a surprise to me...
I met my partner (now husband), Sebastian, a little over a year ago in the middle of the Australian outback at a hellish watermelon farm. Sebastian moved into the donga next to me. I had been...
I had always wanted a homebirth but the cost of midwives is high here in Australia.
When Covid hit and hospital restrictions on support were limited to one person only, my opportunity...
I myself was born in a rather sterile and unnatural fashion--a planned cesarean on a preselected date, ready or not! One thing is for sure, we all have unique birth stories, and I am excited...
My decision to free birth came after accidentally free birthing my first two children, before I knew that it was legal or that people did it intentionally.
When I found out I was pregnant this...
Around 20 weeks pregnant, I made the choice to fire the midwife who had attended my son’s birth. It was during the pandemic, and I refused to have anyone in a mask attending my...
The day that my son was born, my daughter approached me and told me that today was the day that our baby would be born. Sure enough, that night, I was awakened by surges that started around...
My second son Tully was born free at home into my hands and surrounded by his papa and big brother after less than an hour of labour.
The wildest, most intense, humbling, and surreal experience of...
I met the souls of my children a few years before I first became pregnant, so I knew it was Laila and Tulsi who would come through me into this world. Both of my pregnancies have been...
There was a day last March when I was laying on my yurt floor, in Olympia Washington, stretching and listening to music when all of the sudden I sat up with a bolt of recognition. The thought...
Charlow was the seventh spirit to enter my womb. After a miscarriage at 6 weeks and a full term loss, I had my son Odyn, just seven minutes after our midwife arrived. After two more...
