Where Grief Meets Joy: Meg's Birth Outside the System
Free Birth Society
Emilee Saldaya
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2023
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Meg's story starts with a traumatic early birth in the system at 17 weeks with her first son, Shiloh. The dehumanizing experience proved to her that the hospital was the last place she wanted to be, so she planned a homebirth outside the system with an authentic midwife - me!
Meg shares how she learned to accept the intermingling of joy and grief in navigating her pregnancy and upcoming birth.
Meg vulnerably tells us how shell shocked she was from her baby's fast birth (spoiler, I missed it!)- and how she was left physically and emotionally rocked, wondering ‘was that it’?
Meg's story offers insight into how not all freebirths are the peaceful instagram videos you see, but are often far more real, raw, and primal.
We touch on her initially challenging breastfeeding journey and the trust she felt in her body and her baby to find their way.
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| 0:00.0 | Into the wild I'm going into the wild I am |
| 0:11.6 | It's been a wild freedom child since I left my roots back home |
| 0:19.2 | Into the wild I'm going into the wild I am |
| 0:24.8 | It's been a wild freedom child since I left my roots back home |
| 0:30.7 | Welcome to the Free Birth Society podcast |
| 0:33.5 | This is a radical space for women who are ready to celebrate their autonomous choices |
| 0:38.0 | in birth, motherhood, and beyond |
| 0:41.3 | Together, we'll learn about wild birth through personal narrative |
| 0:45.3 | We'll explore the politics of birth and we'll analyze everything that relates to our lives as women |
| 0:50.4 | from a feminist perspective |
| 0:52.3 | Here's your host Emily Salda |
| 1:20.5 | We are counting down the days until the party pops off at the third annual |
| 1:29.4 | Matrix Rising Festival |
| 1:31.4 | If you've never attended a women-only event before, let me tell you it's pure magic |
| 1:38.0 | Imagine dancing under the stars, surrounded by your sisters, barefoot, and free |
| 1:44.2 | completely immersed in the here and now |
| 1:47.4 | It's the only event of its kind where hundreds of women gather on sacred land in the Blue Ridge Mountains every year to revive authentic sisterhood |
| 1:57.7 | So run, don't walk because tickets are now available at |
| 2:02.0 | MatrixRisingFestival.com |
| 2:24.0 | Meg's story starts with a traumatic early birth |
| 2:28.0 | in the system at 17 weeks with her first son, Shiloh |
| 2:32.9 | The dehumanizing experience proved to her that the hospital was the last place she wanted to be |
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