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Birthing Instincts

#406: Trusting your scope of comfort with Free Birth Society Founder, Emilee Saldaya

Birthing Instincts

Dr. Stuart Fischbein + Midwife Blyss Young

Parenting, Kids & Family, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.5 • 631 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 110 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Since the airing of this episode, we have been made aware of a Reddit post sharing a number of allegations against the practices and character of our guest. We are aware of the situation and encourage everyone to be diligent when seeking out resources/support.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FreeBirthSocietyScam/

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This week Blyss and Stu invite Emilee Saldaya, the founder of the Free Birth Society, onto the podcast. Emilee shares her journey from working within the medicalized birth system to advocating and supporting free birth. They discuss the philosophy of free birth, the importance of owning your 'no', and the challenges and misconceptions surrounding autonomous births. Together they explore the impact of societal norms on birthing practices and the power of creating supportive, non-hierarchical birth environments.

About Emilee:

Emilee is a birth educator, birth witness, midwifery teacher, women's elevation coach, host of the viral Free Birth Society podcast, and the founder of Free Birth Society.

Emilee started her birth work journey in 2003. Before long, Emilee witnessed the fundamental fracture that takes place when women give birth within the medical system. Rather than look the other way, Emilee chose to be the revolution she wished to see and transform birthing culture as we know it.

From the belly of the beast to a place of recognition and revolution, Emilee brings two decades of birth work experience and expertise to this space, having supported thousands of births, and knowing with certainty that freebirth has the power to change the world, one motherbaby at a time. Emilee is warm, kind, fierce — and incredibly adept at providing a spacious witnessing that supports women to step into their power.

Having chosen wild pregnancy and freebirth herself with both of her children, Emilee teaches from an inspiring and embodied spirit, with enthusiasm that is truly contagious.

In This Episode

Discovering Free Birth

Leaving the System

Facing Financial and Social Fears

Philosophy of Responsibility in Birth

The Role of Medical Providers

The Importance of Trust and Autonomy

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, everybody. It's Stu and Bliss and it has been brought to our attention many, many, many, many, many, many, many,

0:08.6

times that there is a controversy having to do with Emily and the Free Birth Society. We recorded this podcast two weeks before.

0:23.6

We were not aware of some of the recent allegations.

0:29.9

I think I would love for Stu to talk about the fact that we don't really believe in censorship.

0:37.3

Do you want to say something about that? We don't really believe in censorship. Do you want to say something about that?

0:39.5

We don't really believe in censorship.

0:43.1

Some people wanted us to take the podcast down.

0:46.3

I'm not in favor of that.

0:48.2

And some people said by having her on our podcast, we're endorsing her.

0:51.9

And I would beg to differ with that.

0:55.8

Again, I don't think that necessarily we were that positive or that negative. Maybe we should have been. I don't know.

1:01.1

But it's not an endorsement to have somebody on your podcast. I would have somebody from ACOG come on

1:05.6

the podcast in a heartbeat. Does that mean I'm endorsing what ACOG recommends? Absolutely not.

1:11.5

If Anthony Fauci called me up tomorrow and said, can I come on the podcast, do?

1:16.1

I would say, absolutely. Would that mean I'm endorsing what Anthony Fauci has done? No.

1:21.4

So having somebody on the podcast doesn't mean you necessarily have to agree with them.

1:24.6

And you also don't have to be vehemently against them.

1:28.8

It's just as you said, Bliss, we didn't really know. I didn't know much of the controversy.

1:34.4

I just thought that free birth is a great topic because women are doing it. And the hospital has

1:40.8

become such a difficult place for many women to navigate birth that some women in certain states or in certain rural communities don't have access to other professionals to come help them.

1:54.6

And they're going to choose to do that because the choices that they have are so limited.

1:59.3

So that's my feeling about I would not want to censor

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