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. Today we have the incredible Rachel from British Columbia Canada.

She walked out of her first OB prenatal never to return and went on to birth her four children

over the last seven years with her husband on their own land. Rachel shares about

her interesting life raising four children off the grid on a farm in Canada and how she learned to

birth her way in the house her husband built.

Right now we live in BC. We lived before as a family kind of all over the place. I'm actually from Ontario originally in a big city.

And we, me and my actually from Ontario originally in a big city.

And me and my husband decided,

after a long time of wandering around, really,

we decided to have a family.

And so we ended up settling in Saskatchewan and we chose to live like way off the beaten

path and that kind of spurred us to live off the grid and we held our own water and we raise our own animals and we try and live, you know, from our own hands as much as we can, which kind of ties into why I chose to free birth, really.

And so we just moved to BC about eight, nine months ago

and we just started building a house here and my son was born here. But the rest of my children were born in Saskatchewan.

And yeah, like the kids are all involved in life here. They know about butchering animals.

They know about gardening. They know about what to eat from the woods. They're very bush-friendly

children. So cool. I bet you. very off the grid? Yes. So do you have solar or how do you have electricity? We have solar. We have a smaller

set up before. We live, we're not like your traditional off the grid families with like a huge amount of solar and a dishwasher that runs on the

solar anything. We're very very simple so we lived with about 120 watts of solar for, I don't know, five years or so and we just finally upgrade to about a thousand, which is a huge deal.

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