Welcome to the Free Birth Podcast, a supportive space for people who are learning,

exploring and celebrating their autonomous choices in childbirth.

Together, we'll unpack truths, share personal stories,

and claim our ability to birth freely and intuitively. Here's your host, Emily Sal day. Hi everyone quick note at the top of the show here if you want to support

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We are back this week with Part 2 of Khatya's free birth story of baby Phoenix.

She also shared. We are back this week with Part 2 of Katya's free birth story of baby Phoenix.

She also shares 10 helpful tips for postpartum recovery.

Let's dive in. Welcome back for this week to finish off your birth story. Thank you so much Emily I guess I'm just the chatty Kathy. I know so much to share.

Let's go ahead and start with your prenatal experience with Phoenix from anywhere you really want to start

whether finding out that you're pregnant or you know we already talked about your

choice around free-birthing but how did that how did that look and play into your choices around prenatal care?

Mm-hmm. First I want to say that my pregnancy was very different this time and it's funny how most people say that if the

pregnancy is very different it's probably a baby of a different gender

but that was not the case. Both my babies are boys so pregnancy can look

very very differently and this time around I was just tired the whole time just crazy fatigue. I didn't do almost any

yoga. I did so much yoga with with Zion but with Phoenix I just wanted to rest there was this deep need to be

still and I honored that and so it's perfectly fine not to be doing splits and lunges if you don't

feel like it. And so, well, if for any listeners who have already heard the part, one of the story,

they know that we live in Dominican Republic and our choices here are very limited in terms of prenatal care and

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