The Birth Keepers: I choose this, episode one

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🗓️ 13 December 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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The Free Birth Society was selling pregnant women a simple message: they could exit the medical system and take back their power by free birthing. But Nicole Garrison believes FBS ideology nearly cost her her life. This is episode one of a year-long investigation by the Guardian journalists Sirin Kale and Lucy Osborne Listen to the full series from The Guardian Investigates podcast. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod

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0:00.0	This is The Guardian.
0:07.9	Hi there. I'm Shuring Carla, an investigative reporter for The Guardian.
0:13.6	This is episode one of a new podcast series for my colleague Lucy Osborne and I called The Birth Keepers.
0:21.3	If you like it, then you can listen to the rest of the series right now
0:25.0	by subscribing to the Guardian Investigates feed
0:27.6	wherever you get your podcasts.
0:29.9	Thanks so much for listening.
0:35.8	Hi, I'm Shuin Kala and I'm Lucy Osborne.
0:39.5	You're listening to The Birth Keepers, a new six-part series from The Guardian Investigates.
0:45.6	Just before we start, this series contains references to baby loss and maternal harm.
0:57.0	Yeah, here have it. You have it.
0:59.0	You have it.
1:00.0	You have the crown.
1:02.0	I don't believe it.
1:05.0	That's the crown.
1:08.0	It's one of them.
1:10.0	Gosh, I recognise it.
1:12.4	Yeah.
1:17.9	It's summer earlier this year.
1:20.7	And my guardian colleague, the investigative reporter Lucy Osborne, is in Omaha, Nebraska.
1:26.7	She's interviewing a woman called Serendipity Day, who worked for a business called
1:31.8	the Free Birth Society, FBS, led by the influencer, Emily Saldia.
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