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. This week on the podcast we have the beautiful Yoni who on a whim pregnant with her second child journeyed from the mainland to Kauai with her partner

to settle in their next chapter of life. She enjoyed a truly autonomous pregnancy with no outside

management and practiced deep listening and

connectivity with her baby soon to be born. Yoni shares her gorgeous story of

birthing wild and free outside in the water under the moon on sacred land.

Okay, we had just hiked the Pacific Crest Trail and ended up trimming some ganja actually in Oregon and that's where we conceived Bodie and it was like I was just I was 21 and we had all these wild plans of like going to Asia then traveling to Europe,

then going to like Africa.

I don't know we're just gonna go wherever the wind took us and then we got pregnant and we were like oh wait

Whoa now what yeah and nothing puts a hitch in your giddy up like a pregnancy.

Yeah, yeah totally, totally.

It was, and it like was definitely a bit of a shock,

but we got over it pretty quickly and we're stoked afterwards.

And we decided to move back to Georgia

to be close to family, which was quite wild because Georgia's the South.

We don't have a whole lot of tribe there.

We have friends and we have our family and our family is our family. But yeah, no tribe, you know, no, yeah. And so my pregnancy with him was spent. I worked at Lowe's in the Garden Center and just watered flowers for eight hours a day.

That's not too bad.

Yeah, exactly.

And I had, had a, I had a, I had gone to just like a regular OB and they were like, yeah, see you know 28 doctors within your pregnancy and one of these on this sheet will deliver your baby.

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