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 top of the show here, this is your last chance to get our

pre-sale price for our online course, the complete guide to free birth.

We're offering the course for this final week at almost half price, that's only

three sixty nine.

The course is a very comprehensive and in-depth look at everything we believe anyone would need to know

about home birth, free birth, and giving birth in your power. The complete guide to

free birth will likely never be available at this low price again, so dive on into our course and learn what you need to

to feel confident, educated, and prepared for the birth of your dreams. We are joined this week by Morgan from Florida.

With a history of sexual abuse and after experiencing

obstetrical violence in her first two births. Morgan knew she would be

staying home with this new baby. She shares her raw and real story about

surprise pregnancies, overcoming addiction, and her discovery of self-love through her free birth.

Finding no support in her husband to birth at home on her own terms, Morgan tells the incredible story of how she labored while he slept and

birthed the baby alone in her bathroom. And in that experience found a level of power, love, and confidence that would change her life.

So I had my first child very unexpectedly. I was in college, but I dealt with a lot of rape trauma.

Well, that's the thing.

I did not deal with rape trauma.

And I suppressed that and I had about a full year

of a really intense pill addiction and I became pregnant because I was totally reckless and yeah so I was pregnant and I checked myself into treatment for nine weeks and you know that was all successful but you know trying to deal with that and I wasn't even

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