Into the wild I'm going, into the wild I am, it's been a wild freedom child since I left my roots back home.

Into the wild I'm going, into the wild I am, it's been a wild freedom child since I left my roots back home.

Welcome to the Free Birth Society podcast. This is a radical space for women who are ready to celebrate their autonomous choices in birth, motherhood, and beyond.

Together, we'll learn about wild birth through personal narrative, we'll explore the politics of birth, and we'll analyze everything that relates to our lives as women from a feminist perspective.

Here's your host Emily Salda.

Hello, hello, Emily here.

Okay, it's time my friends. I am finally here, ready to share my most recent birth story, seven months later.

If you are newer to the podcast and you haven't yet heard my first birth story, I'll drop it here in the show notes below if you want to check it out.

It was of course a very different birth and it's a great story so give it a listen.

I also did an episode earlier this season with my husband on my pregnancy and basically our last year.

So if that interests you, you can also find that in the show notes below as well.

Alright, let's do it.

So I've had two pregnancies and both pregnancies have resulted in my children.

I asked for both pregnancies, I timed them in such a way that worked into my vision of my life and year with ease, and I'm really grateful that the universe agreed with my plan.

I haven't so far ever felt done with pregnancy like so many women report.

I love being pregnant, except for obviously all the times that I don't love being pregnant, of course.

But I love both of my birth experiences and not because they were easy, but because they were exactly what they were, which stripped me of so much bullshit.

They taught me endless lessons and they both in different ways really humbled me to my literal knees so that I could have these children.

Birth is birth, birth is everything.

I love birth and all that is available to us as birth and women.

So I'm here to tell you this story as it wants to be told by me today, the story of my birth with my son, Sawyer James, my second child.

I was somewhere just past or around 41 weeks when the story begins.

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