I Am Mother Earth: Sophia’s Freebirth
Free Birth Society
Emilee Saldaya
3.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2021
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Today we have a sweet story of a young woman named Sophia, who discovered she was pregnant when her pregnancy was already half way through, at 23 weeks. Sophia tells us her insightful tale of adjusting to a surprise pregnancy and how as she leaned into the work of her pregnancy she discovered the beautiful story of taking responsibility for creating her dream birth. Sophia and her partner road trip to a small cabin in Montana and with all the animals and plants supporting her, she births in lightness, presence, and deep intuition.
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| 0:00.0 | into the wild I'm going into the wild I am it's been a wild freedom child since I left my roots back home |
| 0:17.2 | into the wild I'm going into the wild I am it's been a wild freedom child since I left my roots back home |
| 0:30.4 | 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. |
| 0:40.9 | 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. |
| 0:51.9 | Here's your host Emily Faldin. |
| 1:21.9 | Today on the show we have a sweet story of a young woman named Sophia who discovered she was pregnant when her pregnancy was already halfway through at 23 weeks. |
| 1:38.9 | Sophia tells us her insightful tale of adjusting to a surprise pregnancy and how as she leaned into the work of her pregnancy |
| 1:47.9 | she discovered the beautiful story of taking responsibility for creating her dream birth. Sophia and her partner road trip to a small cabin in Montana and with all of the animals and plants supporting her she births in lightness, presence and deep intuition. |
| 2:17.9 | Alright, so the kind of joke is that I actually didn't find out I was pregnant till halfway through my pregnancy. |
| 2:25.9 | Whoa! For real? |
| 2:29.9 | Yeah, it's about like, whoa! Yeah, 22 and a half, 23 weeks. |
| 2:34.9 | Oh my gosh! |
| 2:36.9 | Yeah, I know, I know it's insane. I wasn't showing and yeah I could definitely get into that. |
| 2:45.9 | Was this your first pregnancy? |
| 2:47.9 | Yes, it was. |
| 2:49.9 | Okay, wow. |
| 2:50.9 | So my partner, Tom and I, we're doing our work in holiday, Avisa in Australia and we were living on this kind of creek side organic farm in Tasmania |
| 3:02.9 | and unknowingly conceived our baby. |
| 3:06.9 | And it was a time when we were just like broke back packers, we had just done a huge long haul flight from LA to Tasmania. |
| 3:17.9 | And I was really dealing with like a bunch of different personal freedom issues and the relationship and we were just kind of having a hard time. |
| 3:28.9 | And I felt this like need to, you know, like, we need to change. |
| 3:34.9 | And so we decided to take a ferry and go on to mainland Australia and drive across the country to Margaret River in western Australia. |
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