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 are joined by Dr Eden Fromberg and OBIN from New, who, get this, truly supports female autonomy,

self authority, and even free birth.

Dr. Fromberg shares her story of coming into OBGYN

and being appalled at what she saw in the system,

witnessing abusive games and sexualized violence in the medical field.

It became a mission for her to finish her training and present another way for this field to quite literally operate.

I should state before we dive in that this episode reveals some incredibly

sick and upsetting stories about doctors abusing women. Perhaps if you are

blissfully ignorant to the dark nature of obstetrics and are already

choosing to not use the medical paradigm you may consider skipping this

episode.

Well my story really begins with my own birth because my mother, she chose to have a natural

childbirth in 1965 when that wasn't a choice that any of her peers were really making.

It was pretty unpopular actually.

And she had miscarried the baby before me.

So she actually had a lot of fear around birth, but so she negotiated to have her glasses and her

watch and who she was breathing.

And I ended up being born with no doctor or obstetrician present because they really actually didn't know how to figure out when she was giving birth.

They were rushing her down the hall in a stretcher.

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