The Birth Keepers: I choose this – episode one
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The Guardian
4.6 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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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. |
| 0:21.0 | 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 |
| 0:27.5 | wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:29.9 | Thanks so much for listening. |
| 0:35.8 | Hi, I'm Shuin Kaleala and I'm Lucy Osborne. |
| 0:39.5 | You're listening to The Birth Keepers, a new six-part series from The Guardian Investigates. |
| 0:45.5 | Just before we start, this series contains references to baby loss and maternal harm. |
| 0:58.5 | Yeah, here I have it. You have it. |
| 0:59.5 | You have the crown. |
| 1:01.5 | You have the crown. |
| 1:02.5 | I don't believe it. |
| 1:05.5 | That's the crown. |
| 1:07.5 | It's one of them. |
| 1:09.5 | Gosh, I recognise it. |
| 1:12.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:17.9 | It's summer earlier this year. |
| 1:20.6 | 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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