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 Anna, who shares her journey of self-discovery through conscious

conception, free birth, and motherhood. We also speak about her relationship to sacred stones,

and how that led her to create magical stone elixirs to promote healing, awareness, and self-care.

Years before I even got pregnant, I was in a bookstore,

and this book caught my eye, and I grabbed it. It was this beautiful cover, and I just remember

the youth bookstore. I remember being so attracted to this book and taking it off the shelf,

looking at the title, and it was called Spiritual Midwifery, which I'm sure an listener has heard of.

And I was like, oh, this is interesting. I flipped through it, and I was like, oh my goodness,

this is really interesting. Because at that point, I knew I wanted to be a mom. I knew I was going

to be a mom at some point, but I had never thought much about birth other than just what we're

shown on the movies. And so I bought this book, I took it home, and I read it covered to cover.

Like I just completely read the whole book, not even like I wasn't even planning on being pregnant

any time soon, but I devoured it, and fell in love with birth at that moment. And just, yeah,

it really awakened me to the idea that birth could be exciting. It could be something other than

this just big ball of fear. So that really opened the door. Yeah, that's a big deal.

Yeah, it was a huge deal, and my husband even at the time, like we, I don't know if we were

married yet when I found that book, but we were together. And he definitely slipped through the

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