The Fruitful Darkness: Leticia’s Story of Birth & Death
Free Birth Society
Emilee Saldaya
3.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2020
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Today we have a story of the deep spiritual experience of carrying life and birthing a stillborn baby. Leticia joins us today to share the beautiful and heartbreaking story of her pregnancy, birth, and life after loss. Join us today for an important shared story of stillbirth and hear the sacred grace and wisdom Leticia has to share.
Leticia shares how she opened up to spirit, found her calling within the loss of her child, and is devoted to becoming the woman she didn’t have, for women in birth.
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| 0:00.0 | Into the wild I am, it's been in the wild I am. It's been a while, |
| 0:19.0 | I am. It's been a while freedom child since I left my roots back home. Into the wild I'm going into the wild I head. It's been a while freedom child since I let my roots |
| 0:29.4 | back home. 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. |
| 0:41.0 | Together, we'll learn about wild birth through personal narrative, |
| 0:44.9 | we'll explore the politics of birth and we'll analyze everything that relates to |
| 0:49.2 | our lives as women from a feminist perspective. Here's your host, Emily Salder. |
| 0:54.0 | It's been a wild freedom child. |
| 1:00.0 | Since I love my rules back home. Oh Today we have a story of life and loss and the deep spiritual experience of carrying life and of |
| 1:37.0 | birthing death. My friend Leticia joins us today to share the beautiful and heartbreaking story of her pregnancy, her |
| 1:46.5 | stillbirth, and life after loss. |
| 1:51.0 | Having felt a clear no to birthing in the hospital, she chose to stay home. |
| 1:55.0 | And after three days of laboring at home, Laticia and her partner traveled into the hospital to discover that their son had passed on. |
| 2:03.0 | Join us today for an important and shared story of stillbirth, |
| 2:08.0 | and here the sacred grace and wisdom Leticia has to share. |
| 2:12.0 | Come be inspired by how Leticia has to share. Come be inspired by how Leticia opened up to Spirit, |
| 2:16.0 | found her calling within the loss of her son, |
| 2:19.0 | and has devoted her life to becoming the woman she didn't have for women in birth. So we have a special and sensitive episode today. This is something that, you know, I have been waiting for the right woman to really, really unpack the experience of death and loss in birth and you know so for any of you who |
| 2:57.3 | listen to this podcast regularly and are pregnant and are not up for this |
| 3:01.1 | discussion save it for another time. |
| 3:04.0 | So we are here to talk about my dear friend, Laticia, |
| 3:09.2 | and her experience that happened not too long ago with the life and the loss of her child. |
| 3:17.0 | So welcome and thank you for being here. |
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