Welcome to the Free Birth Podcast, a supportive space for people who are learning, exploring and

exploring 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. Are you craving a community of like-minded women?

Do you feel like an outsider in your family or your community?

Well, I may have the place for you.

We have a Free Birth Society private online community that's full of radical and

wild women just like you. If you resonate with the topics that we explore on this

podcast and want to belong in a circle of women who support each other

in the self-exploration of free birth and wild mothering.

Come join us.

You can apply online at our website free birth society.

com. It's where myself and my team

are hanging out these days and we would love to get to know you. the This week I sit down with Mitzi, who first shares her heartbreaking story of violence in the system.

After her unnecessary sea section,

Mitzi left England and returned home to Canada.

In her second pregnancy, she found support in the wonderful

traditional midwife Gloria LeMay who supported her in Mitsi's powerful v

back. Then Mitsi is shocked to discover that she is pregnant with her third child

and decides to birth on the tiny island where she herself was free-birthed and so she did. So I was born at home and you know you don't know that that's like a unique thing when you're a

kid and so that was just kind of always the norm for me my sister was born at

home I was born at home and I was born at home. And I was born on a small remote island in BC and so not

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