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 on the show we have Kyara from Queensland Australia. She tells her story of first

having an induction with her twins in hospital to a birth

center in hospital with her next. Kiyara then describes the impact a miscarriage of

a second set of twins had on herself and her family that ultimately led her to free-birthing her last baby Percy.

Kiera shares how her faith both tested her and carried her through to having the strength

and trust to birth Percy at home with just her family. I planned on having a water birth so at the hospital but in the birth

center I didn't really explore any other options I just don't think I was ready for that.

I was still, I don't know, just new to

embracing the whole experience, I guess guess even after having a fairly like being confident what I did the first time I think part of me

I don't know because I had the epidural because I was induced I didn't know what it was going to be like to do it actually.

So I still had a lot of concerns and just didn't know how I was going to go. I didn't have complete confidence.

But I was going to try and stay home as long as I could.

And just really listen to myself this time.

So yeah, I, it was the day before his due date which is funny because that seems

to happen a lot day before his due date and I, the night before I was like,

I want to have this baby now.

I have my family over and they prayed for me and they were like yep this is good good timing

I was praying that would be a great positive experience so I went to bed at about one o'clock and then I for some reason the whole pregnancy I knew

that my waters were going to break first. I just had that feeling and yet three o'clock woke up

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