Freebirth in New Hampshire: Kate's Story

Free Birth Society

Emilee Saldaya

Self-improvement, Education

3.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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This week we are joined by Kate from New Hampshire, who free birthed both her children. Kate shares how she decided birthing independently with her first child was the safest decision for her family. In the telling of her birth stories, she tells us about how she cried on the phone to Ikea customer service in early labor in one birth, and went to a doula interview in the next! Kate’s stories are such perfect examples of how simple but yet, highly individual each person’s births are. And as always get into a talk about doulas and midwives.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Free Birth Podcast, a supportive space for people who are learning, exploring, and celebrating their autonomous choices in childbirth. exploring and
0:15.0	exploring their autonomous choices in childbirth. Together, we'll unpack truths, share personal stories,
0:20.0	and claim our ability to birth freely and intuitively.
0:24.2	Here's your host, Emily Sal day. This week we're joined by Kate from New Hampshire who free-birthed both of her children. Kate shares how she
0:45.0	decided, birthing independently with her first child, was the safest decision for her family.
0:51.0	In the telling of her birth stories, she tells us about how she cried on the phone to IKEA customer service in early labor in one birth and even went to a dual interview in early labor in the next.
1:02.0	Kate's stories are such a perfect example of how simple but yet highly individual each person's
1:09.3	births are.
1:10.9	And as always we get into a talk about dualas and midwives.
1:17.0	Yeah, I guess it was kind of like a long arc for me and I'm I tell people how grateful that I am that I came to all this birth stuff before I was pregnant.
1:33.2	I was really interested in birth a long time
1:35.0	before I got pregnant, even a long time
1:37.7	before I met my partner that I got pregnant with.
1:42.1	And I just feel so grateful that I was so informed well in advance
1:47.0	that it really was such a quick jump to free birth.
1:51.0	It was so easy to jump to free birth from where I was at right before I was
1:55.9	pregnant. So when we got married, my husband and I in 2014, well I guess the first time really is I had seen the business of being born, which is so
2:08.2	cliche for like every, every dula, you know.
2:12.2	Yeah, but it's like a staple. It totally is and you know I saw that pretty
2:17.9	soon after it came out probably I think it was maybe 19 or 20 at the time and I am really easily turned by things like that and I saw it and I was just like I can't believe this is how birth really is and what our system does to it and I was just so you know
2:39.0	flabberg acid really so even though at that time I really was so far away from even thinking about having kids.
2:46.5	Honestly at that point I didn't even really know that I wanted kids but after watching that I was like I want to have babies I want to give birth I want to
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