13. Claiming It All: Celia’s Story of Birth, Power, and Simplicity
Free Birth Society
Emilee Saldaya
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
This week, I am joined by Celia from the Bay Area, California, who shares her journey from birthing with medical midwives and working as a doula, to stepping fully into sovereign birth work and choosing freebirth with her fourth child.
Born at home herself, Celia’s path was forever changed when she read Portal and began to unravel everything she thought she knew about birth. As a graduate of the Radical Birth Keeper School, she now carries this work forward in her own community.
Celia reflects on her four births, including the painful memory of her midwife pulling out her placentas. She shares how, in her fourth and most recent birth, allowing her placenta to be born in her own way and her own time became her favorite part of the entire experience.
In this conversation, Celia names what it means to let birth be simple, to trust herself, and to claim it all.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, women, before we dive in today, I need to name something important. This episode, |
| 0:08.4 | along with all episodes that you will hear until our winter break in mid-December, was recorded |
| 0:14.7 | before my birth prior to mid-August. Since then, our family has walked through the unimaginable. |
| 0:23.6 | Our son was stillborn, and we are in deep mourning. |
| 0:29.6 | As the show's air, you'll hear and see you pregnant, |
| 0:33.6 | which now feels incredibly painful and weird, given that you are holding the |
| 0:41.1 | sacred knowledge of what came after. So please forgive the dissonance. These stories still deserve |
| 0:48.6 | to be shared and heard. We welcome your prayers, your loving thoughts, and your support as we navigate this spiral of such deep grief. |
| 1:00.7 | I hope you find resonance and nourishment in this conversation today. |
| 1:05.5 | Thank you. |
| 1:06.3 | If you are like most of my listeners, you are devouring these episodes and you're probably |
| 1:11.4 | wishing that you could speak to the women that come on this show, learn from them, even get |
| 1:16.2 | to know them in real life, right? |
| 1:18.9 | Well, I would like to invite you into my inner circle. |
| 1:21.7 | It's called The Lighthouse. |
| 1:23.4 | The Lighthouse is my highly exclusive online membership, and it's where most of the women on this podcast are hanging out. |
| 1:29.8 | It's by far the best social media platform on the internet. |
| 1:33.1 | It's highly curated by yours truly, and our team personally vets every single member coming in to ensure the highest caliber community imaginable. |
| 1:42.7 | I'm talking a full feed of free birth announcements every day, |
| 1:47.2 | engaging in intellectual conversation about everything taboo under the sun, a ton of group calls |
| 1:52.9 | every month to connect and be in circle, not to mention the now seven-year-old matriarch search |
| 1:58.8 | engine that will quickly replace your Google searching. Add |
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