Into the wild I am, it's been in the wild I am. It's been a while,

I am. It's been a while freedom child since I left my roots back home. Into the wild I'm going into the wild I head. It's been a while freedom child since I let my roots

back home. 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.

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. Here's your host, Emily Salder.

It's been a wild freedom child.

Since I love my rules back home. Today on the show we have Anastasia from Seattle, Washington. A self-declared,

recovering people pleaser Anastasia chose to stay home to birth her child, alone and in the dark.

The mantra she carried with her throughout her birth was to whisper to herself,

I die to be reborn. throughout her birth was to whisper to herself,

I die to be reborn.

I die to be reborn.

And she tells us the gorgeous story

of how she brought her child Earthside

with the support of her ancestors.

You know, I think in terms of natural birth and the home birth of my son.

Probably a decade ago I started having just this like waking up period and it started with a health crisis.

So during my healing process I became aware of, you know, a lot of the lies that were told about the health system and our food system and our food system and culture and all that stuff and when you go down one rabbit hole you kind of go down many others.

So and birth was one of them so I knew before even getting pregnant with my son that I wanted to have a home birth.

And I knew the midwives in the area and it was all planned out in my head.

And so when I did get pregnant, I had to go through a whole process of getting my husband on board.

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