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exploring 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 we are joined by Rose from the South Coast of New South Wales Australia.

After a fairly challenging and dramatic first home birth, Rose was dead set on not having

another child for some time. On a trip back to Australia from the Caribbean where her partner

was working, she discovered she was pregnant yet again.

On the brink of Hurricane Irma, she was separated from her partner for many months who got stuck

in the Caribbean in the aftermath of the disastrous hurricane.

Rose stayed in Australia with family and decided to free birth.

She experienced a simple and painless ecstatic birth with her daughter.

She also talks about what it was like to have her toddler's son at the birth, her regret of

ultrasound, and the lessons she learned from both of her births.

Probably sas with when I met my partner.

So I was, well before that, I was living in Jamaica.

I was working and living on a farm in Jamaica.

And then I ended up kind of finding myself on this island.

I was hitchhiking around the Caribbean.

I'd been hitchhiking around the world for about eight years.

Whoa?

And yeah. And I found myself on this little island and I didn't intend to stay there for very long, but I met this man at the supermarket that ended up being my partner and stayed on that little island.

So ended up kind of moving myself into his house and then I mean eight weeks later we found out we were pregnant.

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