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Free Birth Society

From Medwives, ECV, and GBS to Family Births with Rachel Kirk

Free Birth Society

Emilee Saldaya

Society & Culture

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

From Medwives, ECV, and GBS to Family Births with Rachel Kirk 

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Longtime Free Birth Society Member, Rachel Kirk, is finally on the show today sharing her 3 birth stories, culminating in a true family birth that was attended by her sister, mother, father, and sons. How cute is that!? When Rachel’s chosen birth center medwives threatened to drop her care, coerced her into an ECV for her breech baby, and then never answered her calls during labor, she decided for her next birth she would just do it on her own. Fully supported by her family, she went on to freebirth her second and third sons at home. With her mother supporting her, and her father as photographer, she gave birth to her perfect baby boys.

Here’s what you’ll hear:

  • How Rachel wanted to be a compliant patient in order to have a “natural” birth center birth
  • How she found out at 37 weeks that her baby was breech and was coerced into an ECV to maintain her care with the birth center
  • How she went into labor and called the birth center for hours, and after them never answering she reluctantly went to the hospital to give birth
  • How when she got pregnant with her 2nd she knew she couldn't trust the birth center, so she decided she would just do it herself
  • How her decision was supported by her whole family, including her sister who later went on to freebirth
  • How easy and incredible giving birth to her 2nd son was when she was left alone to do whatever she wanted 
  • How different this labor was to her first two and  the pain she endured to birth her baby
  • How special, and unique it is to have birth be a normal family event, that even her little brother called into work to have the day free  

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Into the wild I am, it's been in the wild I am. It's been a while freedom child since I left my roots back home.

0:17.0

Into a while I'm going into the wild I'm going into the wild I hear it's been a while freedom child since I

0:28.2

let my roots back home.

0:30.9

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.

0:41.0

Together, we'll learn about wild birth through personal narrative,

0:45.0

we'll explore the politics of birth, and we'll analyze everything that relates to

0:49.2

our lives as women from a feminist perspective. Here's your host, Emily Saldera.

0:55.0

It's been a wild freedom child.

1:00.0

Since I've left my rules back home.

1:07.0

Long time Free Birth Society member Rachel Kirk is finally on the show today sharing her three birth stories

1:19.3

culminating in a true family birth that was attended by her sister, her mother, her father, her sons.

1:26.0

How cute is that?

1:27.5

When Rachel chose birth center medwives,

1:31.0

they wound up dropping her care, coerced her into an ECB for her breach baby, a

1:36.5

very dangerous procedure, and then never wound up answering her calls during labor.

1:41.6

So she decided for her next birth she would just do it during labor.

1:42.7

So she decided for her next birth she would just do it on her own.

1:46.1

Fully supported by her family, she went on to free birth, her second and her third sons at

1:49.9

home, with her mother supporting her, her father as photographer, she gave birth to her

1:55.1

perfect baby boy. Before we dive in, I want to let you know it is last call for

2:00.7

registering for the Midwife Within Ret retreat this coming springtime.

2:04.8

It is May 8th through 13th and oh my goddess we have got the most

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