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 Saldane.

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Today on the show, we have author and mother, Kimberly Johnson, with her new book on

postpartum titled The Fourth Trimester.

Kimberly shares her personal story of birthing in a foreign country and suffering from a serious

injury and how that led to her own self-healing and life's work.

Her book on the sacred postpartum time came out this

week, and I couldn't recommend it enough. Stay tuned for an awesome conversation.

It's always interesting where our birth story starts, right? And where motherhood story starts,

because we can start it way back. But essentially, I got pregnant. I pulled a house

Stella got her groove back and went to an island and fell in love with the Brazilian and came

home pregnant after two months and decided that I wanted to live in Brazil, which

I loved from the moment I stepped foot on. And I had a fantasy that I was going to be able to have

a baby on the island where we lived. But there were no midwives and no hospitals. I wasn't

really concerned about the hospital part, but there were no midwives left

down the island.

So I decided to move to Rio de Janeiro where there was a midwife who I had just been

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