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 have Jenny Hatch from Utah who you may say has experienced

it all from having a full on mental breakdown after her first birth to a C section due to breach

presentation with her second, she went on to fire her doctor in the middle of her labor and her

v back. Then had a postpartum hemorrhage with her first home birth, and finally

with her fifth child gets to experience an uncomplicated, ecstatic free birth.

Jenny's journey is quite the wild tale, offering tons of

insight and wisdom into the journey of a mother. Before I would like to talk about my childbirths I would like to talk about layering

layering births based on what was best for her.

I'm concerned that when we say,

oh, identify our children by their births, this is my

C-section child, that that child will perhaps feel like they're less than the child who was born

at home into daddy's hands.

And so I would like to start before I share my stories with just saying I know large

families that have had all kinds of medications.

The moms don't breastfeed.

The babies are not fed whole foods.

They're put in daycare almost a couple of days after they're born, and these children

turn out fine.

So I would like to start the podcast with that notion that when we are searching for a way to make things

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