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.

What does it mean to live a life guided by intention? For me it means getting

quiet, questioning, exploring, listening to my intuition, and moving forward with an open heart and a playful mind.

It's that intersection between co-creating something and being open to receiving it in whatever form the universe provides.

So what does conscious conception mean?

Well I guess it's fairly self-explanatory.

It's an idea that's always felt really attractive and powerful to me.

To conceive with intention, while it's common to hear from parents that you're never

ready and to each their own own I feel like I've been

getting ready my whole life and I can finally say I am ready. It's taken a lot of work,

a lot of unlearning, job changes, life changes, even partner changes,

to settle into what I would declare as feeling ready.

That doesn't mean, of course, I won't be constantly surprised and pushed outside of my

comfort zone as I move into parenthood, but I can be ready for this part to enter pregnancy with wholeness and no fear.

I've always thought the most romantic notion in the world was getting the chance to be so ready for pregnancy, so ready for my child, so in love with my partner, that we could create a space to intentionally call in our babies.

And this isn't to say anything's wrong

with the wonderful surprise of a pregnancy

and then organizing around it.

I just specifically have been fascinated

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