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 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-heeling and life's work.

Her book on the Sacred Postpart of Time came out this week,

and I couldn't recommend it enough.

Stay tuned for an awesome conversation.

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

because we can start it way back. But essentially, I got pregnant. I pulled a house Stella got her grooved back and went to an

island and fell in love with the Brazilian and came home pregnant after two months and 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

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