154. The Free Birth Society Scam: Isabel's experience with the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute

Send us Fan MailIn this episode I talk with Isabel about how the free birth society's  “sovereign midwifery school” promise turned into confusion, missing transparency, and a culture that punished questions. We also unpack what it looks like to unlearn judgment, protect informed consent, and support physiologic birth across the full spectrum from hospital to home.In this episode we discuss:Isabel's early fear of medicalized birth stories and her pull towards home birtha traumatic injury as the turning point toward becoming a birth workerhow Free Birth Society and MMI marketing sold legitimacy and titlesearly wins from self-mastery tools followed by disappointment with coursered flags around legal risk and the pressure to use labelswhy demonizing the word doula harms clarity and informed consentstudents organizing concerns, then being kicked out or leaving en masseGerman New Medicine as a central lens that felt undisclosedrebuilding with nuanced education and practical postpartum and holistic doula trainingdeveloping a new lens on physiologic birth as unfolding best in the place where the mother feels safestAdditional Resources:MyMaineBirth.comClosing Song by Kate Sutherland.  You can find Kate's community songs and deep nature connection work online at KateSutherland.caThe Guardian Article - Title: Infludencer's made millions pushing 'wild' births - now the free birth society is linked to baby deaths around the worldThe Guardian Article - Title: She was like a deer in the headlights': How unskilled radical birthkeepers took hold in CanadaThe Guardian Article - Title: Five Key Findings from our investigation into the Free Birth Society The Guardian Article - Title: Friday Briefing: How the free birth society's philosophy contributed to a preventable death Interview - Exposed: the business linked to baby deaths around the worldThe Guardian Podcast - the BirthKeepers