Welcome to the Free Birth Podcast, a supportive space for people who are learning,

exploring and celebrating their autonomous choices in childbirth.

Together, we'll unpack truths, share personal stories,

and claim our ability to birth freely and intuitively. Here's your host, Emily Sal day. Today on the show we're welcoming in 2018 with our first episode of the year. We have Eleanor from the Big Island in Hawaii

sharing her story of free birthing her firstborn. After carrying her baby for 43 long weeks,

she was surprised by a precipitous three-hour labor and

delivery. I was struck by Eleanor's sense of self-authority and brutal honesty

as she vulnerability shares of the raeness of her birth and postpartum.

I didn't really know much about pregnancy previously or birth and had never really

been interest of mine but then as soon as I decided that you know pregnancy was

going to be in my future or once I got pregnant I like just went crazy consuming all the

information I could I mean I love to research and I became really passionate

about it and so when I found your podcast I just I loved all the stories. I think it was pretty new then there were only a few podcasts when I found it and I listened.

I only started it in May. So yeah, and I was yeah I got pregnant last January so I had that was about at the beginning then when I found it and they started listening to it every week it became like a ritual you know I listened to with my boyfriend and I just, I look forward to it every week.

Like, I really, really love it.

Thank you. And what's so cool to me about undisturbed birth is that the research and the science

prove everything that we intuitively know.

You know, it's, you know, like, it doesn't prove birthing in captivity.

What we're doing, which is so primal and so wild and so simple, you know, anyone who does any research sees that it proves itself, which I just think is so cool that we really have science on our side.

Yeah, that's what part that I'm really excited about to you.

I mean, it's not just that everything feels better that way, but it just, I got really into the education and birth education and just I got to nerd out on all the facts

and all the research has been done because it really does stand behind everything that feels

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