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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 perspective on the sacred first moments of a newborns life. We get into the do’s and don'ts of neon...

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 in her own home, away from the harms of the hospital.

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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 pregnancy, believing that she was three months further along than she actually was! Her "year long" preg...

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 pregnancy in the system, and a freebirth over a hospitalized experience. Through taking responsibilit...

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...

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.

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