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.

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Today on the show we have Heidi Lynn from New Brunswick Canada who shares the

healing story of her birthing in full power with her second baby in the

support of her husband and a traditional midwife.

After a deeply traumatic childbirth experience in hospital with her first, it took

her a long time to even be willing to consider a second child.

She was left violated and angry.

And knowing deep in her gut, this second birth needed to be different

than what she had found in the hospital. So she did the work. Heidi

educated herself, found her new team, and dedicated herself to birthing at home.

Any power that was stripped away from her in her first birth, she if only I hadn't known that I probably should have been at home and whatnot.

But honestly, my first birth is what led me to the knowledge that I have now and what led me to have this second birth. And addition to that I now feel that I can kind of provide this

I guess really important community and compassion to other women that I really just want to be a bridge for women who

are between where I am now like they've had the traumatic birth haven't yet had the healing one and I just don't

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