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

and celebrating their autonomous choices in childbirth.

Together, while unpacked truths, share personal stories, and claim our ability to birth freely

and intuitively.

Here's your host, Emily Saldana.

We are doing a four-part series over the next year with my friend Kim in Los Angeles,

journeying with her from her birth work to leaving the system all together into conscious conception,

to now having a wild and autonomous pregnancy, and then finally her upcoming free birth.

This episode is meeting with Kim at the end of her first trimester, wrapping up her journey thus far.

So let's go ahead and just start with saying that we are joined today. I am joined today

with one of my dear friends, Kim, from Los Angeles, and she is at this time of the recording

12 weeks. End of 12 weeks, yeah.

And she is still feeling quite nauseous and dealing with with all of that fun first trimester

stuff. Hopefully it's just first trimester. So you're going to hear some crackling of the

saltine paper and what other snacks do you have with you? I have some mango and a bagel and

ginger ale and water. I feel like an a lasagna and a salad if only. And I have chicken and oven.

Nice, yeah. So you might hear some food today to keep her nourished, so just deal with that,

please. And yeah, I guess we will just go ahead and welcome all of you listening into what we're

doing with these. This is going to be a series. Our goal is four. And I asked him to do this with

me because she is also a birth worker. And I know her from the dual community in Los Angeles,

and she helps run our nonprofit in LA together. So she, which she'll speak to in a moment,

but she is choosing to have a wild autonomous pregnancy and went through her own process of

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