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'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. No. After two births in the system, Jamie planned a free birth with her third child.

Due to an autoimmune condition, she chose to still seek industrial prenatal care and it's soon revealed that Jamie's

pregnant with twins. She continues on with both obstetrical care and plans to

stay home when her birthing time came.

At 36 weeks, she was surprised by the start of labor

and ecstatically gave birth to her children.

Jamie also shares about the choice to gave birth to her children.

Jamie also shares about the choice to transfer into the hospital after the birth and the discovery of one of her children needing medical support. So with my first I lived in Austin, Texas and anyone who's been in Austin or knows Austin knows that they have like a pretty amazing birth community. So going into it I decided to have a home birth with my first and I had all these amazing options for midwives.

So I had a midwife assisted home birth with my first and it was perfect.

Yes.

There's really nothing, you know, that stands out that I look back on and say hey I wish I hadn't done that or I wish this didn't happen or it was nice. Yeah for my first pregnancy I just I had a beautiful pregnancy it was easy and then I went and had a two hour precipitous birth which looking back on it was kind of a little traumatic during the experience

because you know those who have had precipitous births know that it's something

that happens to you it's not really something you

experience so having that as my first birth it was nothing like I imagined I

you know had read birth stories and was like okay it's going to be like eight nine hours maybe longer like it's going to be this whole experience and literally my water broke and two hours later I was holding my first baby.

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