Into the wild I'll go and into the wild I am.

It's been a wild freedom child since I left my roots back home.

Into the wild I'll go into the wild I've had.

It's been a while freedom child since I've left 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 Saldaio.

It's been a wild freedom child.

Since I've left 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.

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, our culture and all that stuff. And when you go down one rabbit hole, you kind of go down

many others. And birth was one of them. So I knew before even getting pregnant with my

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