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

exploring 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. Are you craving a community of like-minded women?

Do you feel like an outsider in your family or your community?

Well, I may have the place for you.

We have a Free Birth Society private online community that's full of radical and

wild women just like you. If you resonate with the topics that we explore on this

podcast and want to belong in a circle of women who support each other

in the self-exploration of free birth and wild mothering.

Come join us.

You can apply online at our website free birth society.

com. It's where myself and my team

are hanging out these days and we would love to get to know you. Over a decade ago my friend Nancy attempted a home birth in Sweden that was unfortunately

sabotaged by licensed midwives.

This launches Nancy into healing, learning, and even becoming a birth worker.

Finding herself with a new partner in a new country, Nancy describes the beautiful journey of consciously conceiving her son in Mexico and birthing

him in total power and in freedom. My daughter came flying down from the cosmos.

She just really wanted to be here.

I was very much in some ways not ready for that, but I said a full yes, you know. I was 24, living in Sweden, kind of back and forth between New York and Sweden because her dad is Swedish.

Living like a super typical kind of New York City life of like waiting tables,

being a nanny, going to school, having three roommates, you know?

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