Free Birth Society

Free Birth Society

Hosted by: Emilee Saldaya

The Free Birth Society Podcast features honest, gripping, inspiring, and transformative freebirth stories hosted by the founder Emilee Saldaya in conversation with wild women worldwide. In the vast tapestry of...

Episodes

Smiling Through It All: Janessa's Peaceful Family Freebirth in Hawaii

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...
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A Tell-All Conversation with Felicity: the NHS Whistleblower Turned Radical Birth Keeper

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...
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Birth in Prayer and Song: Tati's Journey in Germany

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...
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Jenni's Pain-Free, Solo, Garden Freebirth

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...
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Ita's Wild VBAC Reclamation at (Nearly) 44 Weeks

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...
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Opening Again to Life: Amana’s Freebirth After Loss

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...
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The Truth About Birth: An Honest Conversation with Emilee & Yolande

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...
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Clearing the Fear: Virginia's Alchemical Birth

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....
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The Woman Who Freebirthed in the Ocean

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...
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From Maiden to Mother: Emily's Freebirth Initiation

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...
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The 40-Week Wild Pregnancy Wrap Up with Emilee & Jonny (Round 2)

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...
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Surrendering to Everything: Whitney's Motorhome Freebirth

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...
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