Into the wild I am, it's been in the wild I am. It's been a while,

I am. It's been a while freedom child since I left my roots back home. Into a wild I'm going into the wild I head. It's been a while freedom child since I let my roots

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.

Together, we'll learn about wild birth through personal narrative,

we'll explore the politics of birth and we'll analyze everything that relates to

our lives as women from a feminist perspective. Here's your host, Emily Salder.

It's been a wild freedom child.

Since I love my rules back home. Today on the podcast we have Jamie who shares the heartbreaking story of her first two children born in the system and

then the insightful reflections of her experience.

Jamie tells us the incredible story of her choice to leave the system and

birth in sovereignty while also navigating her three-year-old daughter's brain

tumor diagnosis and surgery. This is a beautiful

tale of a woman finding her voice in her marriage and in her life. All right, welcome to the show, Jamie. I'm so excited to be doing this.

Thank you. This is a long time coming. I feel like.

Yeah, really my sons I've just turned a year so it feels like you know just a really great time to sort of close that loop. So take us to wherever you want to start. This was your third baby. You've had a pretty wild ride over the last couple of years so take us to yeah the start of motherhood for you.

Okay so my oldest daughter is almost seven and when I got pregnant I was living in Washington DC and I was working in a hospital as an inpatient physical therapist.

And one of the incentives that the hospital had for employees was if you birth there you would not see a bill.

It would be free essentially anything that insurance didn't cover.

And so that was a big incentive for most employees, but at the time I was like kind of, you know, dipping my toes in the water of being, you know, interested in natural birth.

And so we sought out some midwives that practiced in a different hospital and that felt really edgy for us at the time.

So we would pay the out of network cost and that was fine and we actually ended up moving.

So we left DC when I was 36 weeks pregnant

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