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. Quick note at the top of the show here, Free Birth Society has a big announcement coming up in a few weeks and the best way to keep in touch with us is through our newsletter.

Have you joined yet? There's going to be some awesome things you definitely want to know about.

So go to my website, FreeBirth Society.com or my Instagram at Free Birth Society to subscribe. Hey everyone. This is the 50th episode of the Free Birth Podcast. It's also

been exactly one year since I started this crazy thing and to top it all off this week is the

end of my fourth trimester. I have sat down so many times to record this story of

my birth but it just didn't feel quite right yet. I'm glad I took my time because today marks 12

weeks postpartum. I can't believe my baby's three months old. I can't believe I

gave birth 12 weeks ago and that my baby already isn't a newborn anymore.

And I am no longer feeling immediate postpartum.

Oh my God.

I'm splitting up my birth story into two episodes

because A, it's a hell of a story.

And B, I also want to talk a bit about the first few weeks of my postpartum.

Thank you all for supporting the podcast and my own personal journey with such love and excitement.

My birth story will mark the end of season one, I'm gearing up for a super. So thank you to all of you who have held interest and

held space and patience and feeling really vulnerable sharing this. So we'll see how it goes.

This is my first episode holding it on my own. I always have someone else with me.

So I'm just going to take my time and share with you my crazy crazy epic beautiful long story.

So with that I did want to give a little recap for anyone who's new to the

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