Into the wild I am, it's been in the wild I am. It's been a while,

I am. It's been a while freedom child since I left my roots back home. Into the wild I'm going into the wild I head. It's been a while freedom child since I let 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 Salder.

It's been a wild freedom child.

Since I love my rules back home. Oh. Today we have my dear friend Amelia who shares her story of her spiritual journey into motherhood.

After becoming sober and meeting her husband Amelia embarks on a conscious conception

journey that brings in her first son.

After being mistreated by her midwives,

she found the courage to critique her birth experience

and began the deep discovery process

of what it could mean to take 100% responsibility in her next pregnancy. I guess my mother and Jenny begins when I was five years old and my mom was pregnant with my little brother who's my only blood

sibling. I have a 10 year older half sister who I didn't grow up with but she was driving in the car and I was sitting in the back and all of a sudden I started making me down and it's like, I'm like, I'm saying,

A,

my wrong was saying,

Amelia, what's happening?

You're okay back then.

I was like, I'm having the baby and I gave birth in the back to my doll and

congratulations thank you so much and it was a beautiful moment and I refused to go to school after that the next day because I needed to stay at home to feed my baby obviously.

And my mom was like, you know, I promise you me I'll feed the baby whenever the baby's hungry

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