My Redemption Birth: Najma’s FBAC in Egypt
Free Birth Society
Emilee Saldaya
3.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
FBAC: Free Birth After Cesarean.
After being deemed high-risk in her first pregnancy- despite feeling great and not presenting with any issues- Najma was taken down the conveyor belt of industrial birth.
After hours of tortuous induced labor, she ended up with a surgical birth.
The reason? “Failure to descend”.
After meeting a woman who shared her powerful, physiological birth story, Najma felt inspired to redeem her birth experience.
She learned all that she could about undisturbed birth, reclaimed her authority, and centered herself as the author of her birth and mothering story.
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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. |
| 1:22.9 | Nezma is a brilliant black Muslim woman living in Egypt who was quickly labeled high-risk in her first pregnancy. |
| 1:31.9 | Nezma made the tough decision to move back to the United States for the birth of her first child and unfortunately wound up having an entirely unnecessary surgical birth. |
| 1:43.4 | And it wasn't until Nezma returned to Egypt that she was invited to sit in a woman's circle where she heard from multiple women who had birthed freely with just their families. |
| 1:55.9 | So Nezma tells us of her perfect free birth where she took her power back and claimed a new space in her mothering, one of full autonomy. |
| 2:13.9 | I guess my mother and journey started back in 2017. |
| 2:19.9 | I was newly married, fresh out of a job, fresh out of college, my background is in pharmacy, and I got let go of my job because I have bloopers and kidney disease, and it really just took over my life with the illness. |
| 2:41.9 | So I decided to just leave all of my life behind and like I'm just going to move to Egypt. It's super cheap there. |
| 2:51.9 | It's pretty nice. |
| 2:52.9 | And you know, just started journey like, you know, what else is out there? This pharmaceutical stuff obviously isn't working. |
| 2:59.9 | You know, let me see when I met my husband. |
| 3:03.9 | You had already gotten married before you moved to Egypt? |
| 3:08.9 | No, I moved to Egypt before getting married. |
| 3:10.9 | Oh wow, that is a bold move. |
| 3:13.9 | Yeah. |
| 3:14.9 | Well, mom, everyone thought I was crazy. |
| 3:17.9 | I was like, you know, young, 25, little old me, I'm learning like 500 pounds, and they're like, you're moving where? |
| 3:25.9 | And why? Why Egypt? |
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