4: From Single Mother to Sovereign Birth Keeper: Mimilia’s 4 Births
Free Birth Society
Emilee Saldaya
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
How deep can birth take you when you fully surrender to the mystery?
In this episode, I sit down with Mimilia—mother of four and a recent graduate of our MatriBirth Mentor Institute. Her story is a breathtaking journey through four radically different births, each one deepening her trust, sharpening her discernment, and calling her closer to truth.
We begin with her first birth: newly single, choosing freebirth in her homeland of Puerto Rico, and awakening to her own power in the most unexpected of settings. From there, Mimilia shares the simple beauty of freebirthing in a tipi in the Colorado mountains, before taking a surprising detour—hiring a licensed midwife for her third birth.
But it’s her fourth birth that brings it all home: the culmination of her path through sovereignty, surrender, and self-responsibility. This episode is a mirror, a medicine story, and an invitation to reflect on what birth reveals when we are ready to listen.
Inside this episode:
- What it’s like to leave a relationship mid-pregnancy and return to your homeland
- What it looks like to birth in a tipi—with a handmade altar and a bucket of water
- Why hiring a midwife for her third birth helped her understand what kind of birth keeper she would be
- How birth exposed the subtle and chronic ways she’d been abandoning herself
- What it takes to face birth without flinching—and let it break you open
- Why having her children witness birth became a sacred part of the journey
- How MMI helped her embody her calling as a woman, a mother, and a birth keeper
- This one is intimate, wild, and deeply instructive. Tune in.
Timestamps:
[00:00] Introduction
[01:55] Leaving a chaotic relationship to return home and prepare for a freebirth in Puerto Rico
[05:35] Birthing her first child at 24 in an unexpected place surrounded by friends and family
[11:34] Freebirthing their second child in a teepee
[21:36] Choosing midwifery care for her third pregnancy and navigating birth with preeclampsia
[33:53] Claiming her fourth birth at home and confronting deeper layers of power and surrender
Resources Mentioned:
The MatriBirth Mentor Institute | Website
If you want to connect more deeply with Mimilia, follow her personal Instagram @keyawis_dream and her business Instagram @bera_birth
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Free Birth Society. |
| 0:06.2 | I'm Emily Saldia, and this is where we break the spell of medicalized birth. |
| 0:11.5 | Remember what's been forgotten and rise together into our birthright, to live birth and mother as sovereign women. |
| 0:19.8 | All right. Welcome, Amelia. I'm excited to have you here from |
| 0:24.4 | Colorado, but currently calling in from Wisconsin. Welcome. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It's so |
| 0:30.4 | honored to be here. I'm excited to hear your stories in their entirety as much as we have time for, |
| 0:36.6 | because I know you have four big stories, and |
| 0:39.1 | it's just been such a joy to have you in MMI this year. And, you know, you've had this, |
| 0:46.7 | like, whole, you've had this whole process of birthing your business and attending sovereign birth and mothering your four children. |
| 0:56.9 | So, yeah, excited to drop in with you. |
| 1:00.3 | Likewise. |
| 1:01.4 | So take us wherever you want. |
| 1:03.0 | You know, who are you before you become a mom and take us into the choices that shape that first story? |
| 1:09.9 | All right. |
| 1:11.7 | Well, I am born and raised in Puerto Rico, and I have always been erodical thinker, |
| 1:19.4 | and I always, you know, I kind of abandoned my schooling in high school |
| 1:25.3 | and just knew that it was a false programming that was happening and have |
| 1:30.0 | always had this deep gut feeling of something deeper in this realm and something deeper in nature. |
| 1:37.9 | So I've always been like that. So I traveled quite a bit and then landed in California. And I was living in California for |
| 1:47.9 | some time and that's where I met the father of my first child. And that relationship was a struggle |
| 1:57.0 | to say the very least to simplify. It was beauty woven with challenge. And in that |
| 2:03.6 | relationship, I had to just be initiated into understanding really what my yeses and my |
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