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. Welcome welcome to our first feedback show. Today we have Diana from Seattle

Washington with a true story of victory.

Diana shares how her emergency C section was caused by the interventions she received in her

birthing experience.

Diana says, I'd like people to know about how the cascade of interventions caused an emergency

C section. The cascade being anesthesia to then Patosin, then the Potosin causing heart

D cells, and therefore causing an emergency and of course then needing a surgical birth to save the baby.

When Diana found herself pregnant again, she knew that she needed to do everything she could to have a vaginal

birth with her second which was beautifully accomplished at home on her own terms

in the bed where her child was conceived. This is a true tale of overcoming fear and learning to trust in one's ability

to birth vaginally and naturally after a surgical birth. This is a healing and triumphant

story. I found out that I was pregnant when my husband and I were engaged and we were planning a wedding actually at

Burning Man.

So I found out, yeah, it was very, very fun, but not definitely not a planned pregnancy.

We slept in a big van, like picture like a, yeah, like a big van that just like,

we threw down a mattress in the back and that's where we've left and we're

part of a camp of like 15 other people so it's it's definitely is something I

would have chosen to do pregnant but we were completely committed because we were getting married and we had

you know all these plans and so it it I went and it was fine and my baby was fine and you

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