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

and celebrating their autonomous choices in childbirth.

Together, while unpacked truths, share personal stories, and claim our ability to birth freely

and intuitively.

Here's your host, Emily Saldana.

Today on the podcast, we have Maya from Oregon.

After intentionally conceiving her daughter Shasta in, well, Mount Shasta,

she got intuitive guidance that her baby wanted to be born in Maui.

So at eight months pregnant, she made her way to the beautiful island of Hawaii,

and with the help of a dear brother of hers, birthed her baby in a small hut on her own.

Welcome to the Free Birth Podcast. Today we have Maya with us. Hi, Maya.

Hello. Thanks for joining us. She is a free, birthing mama, so she's here to share her story

with all of us today. Where are you living now, Maya?

I am in Southern Oregon in Grants Pass. And how old is your little one?

She is a little over two and a half now. She's pretty awesome, but definitely two and a half.

Yeah. What's her name? Her name is Shasta. She was conceived on Mount Shasta,

and actually the woman that inspired me to do my free birth also did a free birth,

and I met her while we were on a retreat on Mount Shasta, and she was about seven months pregnant at

the time. So she was really like the first woman I'd ever met who wasn't, you know,

getting all the sounds and going to prenatals and all the stuff, and she was just kind of living

on the mountain and just totally present, and in great shape, hiking, and I was just like,

you're seven months pregnant. This is amazing. And she really inspired me to follow my own path.

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