Free Birth Society
by Emilee Saldaya
The Free Birth Society Podcast features honest, gripping, inspiring, and transformative freebirth stories hosted by the founder Emilee Saldaya in conversation with wild women worldwide. In the vast tapestry of childbirth experiences, a thread runs undisturbed, unmedicated, and true to its ancestral roots: freebirth. This differs from your usual home birth with doulas or midwives in attendance. Freebirth stands apart, where birthing is solely in the hands of the birthing woman, accompanied only by her intuition, rhythms of nature, witnessed by her family.The Free Birth Podcast invites you to a unique corner of the universe where we dive deep into the raw essence of birth, untamed and unassisted. Pushing against the tides of modern obstetrics and its violent approach, we venture into stories of women who've boldly chosen to claim this primal rite of passage. Here, we're not merely sharing tales; we're challenging the status quo and redefining the very narrative of childbirth.As we
Episodes
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The Sacred Restoration of a Broken, Holy Family
Grace shares the story of choosing a wild pregnancy and freebirth, transferring to the hospital during labor, and discovering after the birth that she had been carrying twins. She recounts the loss of one baby, the NICU stay of his surviving twin, and the family’s efforts to navigate grief and...
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When Her Husband Missed the Birth and His Mother Stepped In
Gabrielle shares her two unassisted births, from a casual, confident mountain birth to an intense hot tub labor, and what trusting her body's natural rhythm taught her both times. Along the way, she talks about building a real women's circle, the kind that shows up with groceries and childcare…
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Meconium, 24 Hours, and Trust: A Story from New Zealand
Jenna McConkey shares the intimate story of her freebirth after miscarriage and years of inner work. Jenna speaks on trust, surrender, the illusion of safety, and the subconscious beliefs that surfaced during her labor. A powerful conversation about birth as a medicine journey, and learning to…
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She Chose Her Babies Before They Were Conceived: Liv’s Two Freebirths
Two babies. Two free births. Two radically different initiations into motherhood. Liv shares the extraordinary story of trusting her body, her intuition, and her children to guide how she gave birth and built her family. From hearing her first daughter’s soul before conception to navigating...
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I Thought I Was Getting Care - I Was Being Managed
The difference between a managed birth and a truly lived one can change everything. Gracie shares how a pregnancy that began with fear, false alarms, and a medical system that never seemed to stop escalating led her to question what she was actually consenting to - and what women lose when they...
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A Messy Truth About Marriage, Birth, and Repair: Erin’s Freebirths
Freebirth is not just about where you give birth; it can expose everything happening in your marriage, your nervous system, and your deepest beliefs about what you think you deserve. Erin shares two raw, unforgettable freebirths in upstate New York, and the second one includes a moment most…
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From Academia to Freebirth: How One Woman De-Programmed Her Mind and Claimed Her Body
Sandra shares her transformation from a fear-driven, data-controlled first birth to an intuitive, very fast, freebirth at home. If you want to connect with Sandra, follow her on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/sandraskjaervo. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Introducing LEMONADE, my…
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From Self-Proclaimed Zombie to Awake and Engaged: Abbey’s First Freebirth
Abbey shares how trusting her intuition led her to freebirth and a deeper connection with her body. She opens up about awakening from feeling like a zombie, navigating her first pregnancy, and embracing intentional motherhood. This is a powerful conversation about presence, birth, healing, and...
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From People-Pleasing to Power: Jasmine Chooses Freebirth
The advice to “just trust the system” falls apart fast when you’ve already been gaslit by doctors, pressured toward induction, and made to feel like your own body can’t be trusted. Jasmine shares the full arc from her first hospital birth, and the quiet unease that followed, to the radically...
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How One Manufactured Emergency C-Section Led to a Total Birth Rebellion
After a homebirth turned into a C-section, Tereza began questioning everything she thought she knew about birth and safety. She shares how processing her experience led her to freebirth her second baby and reclaim trust in her body. Now pregnant with her third, she explores sovereignty, fear,...
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Listening to the Whispers: Haleigh Knows To Freebirth Her First Baby
Motherhood reshapes everything: identity, trust, intimacy, and surrender. Haleigh Featherly shares the spiritual and emotional journey behind her freebirth, and the unexpected challenges of becoming a mother. A raw conversation about autonomy, inner knowing, postpartum transformation, and…
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One Nurse’s Cost and Benefit of Experiencing Midwifery Betrayal
What happens when a nurse who believed in midwives ends up learning, the hard way, why so many women leave the system behind? Kari shares the full arc from a fast-moving love story and her first hospital-adjacent birth to the moment she realized the real authority in the room had to be her....
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How Working in the OR Led to Freebirth: Danielle’s FBAC/VBAC
In this deeply honest conversation, Danielle shares the full arc of her journey into motherhood, from a medically managed first birth that left her feeling unprepared and disoriented, to a transformative freebirth experience that changed everything. She opens up about navigating a C-section,...
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The Nurse Who Quit Trusting the System She Worked In (and then freebirthed, of course)
Kaitlyn spent years as a nurse inside a system she stopped trusting. So she left it, became a lactation consultant, and started attending births outside the hospital entirely. After 8 years of infertility, Kaitlyn finally got pregnant and freebirthed at home, with a little help from Rescue Remedy...
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Season 10 of The Free Birth Society Podcast is Coming Friday, September 4, 2026
Season 10 of Your Favorite Podcast drops Friday, September 4, 2026. Watch the teaser trailer and share/comment if you’re as excited as we are!
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The Mother–Daughter Freebirth Duo: Jinny & Audrey’s Stories
This week on the Free Birth Society Podcast, Emilee sits down with Jinny and Audrey, a remarkable mother–daughter duo with sovereign birth woven through both of their lives. Jinny, a mother of seven and birth doula, shares how her third birth became a freebirth when she decided not to return to…
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Death of the Maiden: Raquel’s Journey into Motherhood at 41
This week, Emilee is joined by Raquel, who shares her extraordinary first pregnancy and sovereign birth at the age of 41. Raquel speaks candidly about the profound transitions she navigated during this time. The death of her mother, leaving her job, moving homes, and entering into the work of...
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17. When Rachel’s Birth Keeper Died, She Chose Freebirth
Nine days before Rachel was to give birth to her first child, her beloved birth keeper, Candace, was tragically killed in a car accident. Grief-stricken, panicked, and suddenly faced with new decisions, Rachel chose to freebirth. What unfolded was the gentle, funny, and heartwarming story of a...
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16. Kristin Hauser on Holistically Handling Excessive Bleeding at Home
This week, I’m joined once again by Kristin Hauser, a beloved and regular guest on the Free Birth Society Podcast. We weave through the stories of Kristin’s four births, with a special focus on her most recent freebirth and the profound lessons it offered. Kristin shares the raw reality of...
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15. Mother of Nine: Radical Wisdom from Two Decades of Birth
After six births within the system—including a cesarean at 37 weeks due to partial placenta previa and subsequent hospital abuse—Ashleigh knew she was done. Now a mother of nine and a Radical Birth Keeper School graduate, Ashleigh joins me to share her accumulated wisdom from nearly twenty years…
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14. The Heroine’s Adventure with THINX Founder Miki Agrawal
This week on the Free Birth Society Podcast, I sit down with Miki Agrawal—serial entrepreneur, cultural disruptor, and unapologetic creative force. From opening New York City’s first gluten-free, farm-to-table pizza restaurant, to founding THINX, to launching TUSHY and Hiro Diapers, Miki has…
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13. Claiming It All: Celia’s Story of Birth, Power, and Simplicity
This week, I am joined by Celia from the Bay Area, California, who shares her journey from birthing with medical midwives and working as a doula, to stepping fully into sovereign birth work and choosing freebirth with her fourth child. Born at home herself, Celia’s path was forever changed when…
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12. From Trauma to Triumph: Tahlia’s Journey to Birthing Twins in Power
After surviving domestic violence and a series of traumatic hospital births, Tahlia from Australia made the courageous decision to leave her abusive partner and begin again. In rebuilding her life, she came to understand what it truly means to make herself available to health, love, and...
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11: The Forgotten Power of Homeopathy with Melissa Kupsch
This week on the Free Birth Society Podcast, I sit down with homeopath Melissa Kupsch for a rich and fascinating dive into the world of homeopathy. We explore its powerful history, reaching back to the days when homeopathy was a dominant and respected medicine. Melissa shares the almost...
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10: Double the Responsibility: Birthing Twins in Sovereignty
What happens when you choose a normal birth with twins? In this episode, I speak with Nicole, a mother from South Africa now living in the U.S., who chose sovereignty in one of the most medicalized and “high-risk” experiences imaginable: an identical twin pregnancy. From the very beginning…
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9: Behind the Curtain of Labor & Delivery: Rylee’s Freebirth Story
What happens when you see behind the curtain of labor and delivery? In this episode, I speak with Rylee, a young mother who chose to freebirth her first child after working inside the hospital system. From the vantage point of the “business of birth,” Rylee began to question everything she...
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8: From Thyroid Cancer in the Medical System to Birthing Outside of It
What happens when cancer treatment becomes the greatest catalyst for sovereignty? In this episode, I speak with Jocelyn, a Tennessee mother who walked away from conventional medicine after surviving thyroid cancer and having her thyroid removed at 25 years old. That experience changed...
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7: Quitting Corporate America to Begin Again: Divorce, Freebirth, and Off-Grid Life
What happens when you walk away from everything and find your own path to motherhood? In this episode, we hear from Julia, a Montana mother of two who walked away from the corporate grind, sold her home, and set out on a radically different path to motherhood, one rooted in sovereignty…
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6: Unpacking Birth Certificates with Veda Ray
What if the birth certificate was never for your baby—but a tool of control used by the state? In this episode, I sit down with Veda Ray, a freebirthing mother of two, who chose to walk a path most women never even consider: birthing and raising her second child completely outside the system. No...
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5: She Freebirthed In The Middle Of The Ukraine/Russia War
What would you do if you had to give birth in the middle of a war? In this episode, I sit down with Natalia, a Ukrainian mother of two, to hear her incredible story of freebirthing her second child during the 2022 Russian invasion. After one homebirth, Natalia chose to walk an even more radical...
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4: From Single Mother to Sovereign Birth Keeper: Mimilia’s 4 Births
How deep can birth take you when you fully surrender to the mystery? In this episode, I sit down with Mimilia—mother of four and a recent graduate of our MatriBirth Mentor Institute. Her story is a breathtaking journey through four radically different births, each one deepening her trust,...
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3: She Fired Her Obstetrician At 36 Weeks Pregnant And Freebirthed
In this episode, I’m joined by Ash Anderson, mother of three and recent graduate of The MatriBirth Mentor Institute. After a traumatic induction with her first baby, Ash was certain she was done having children. But what she came to realize was that it wasn’t birth she was finished with—it was…
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The Fruits of Cancel Culture and Mob Mentality: A Tell-All with Yolande Norris-Clark
What happens when the work you love, your life’s devotion, collides with public scrutiny, betrayal, and cancel culture? In this intimate conversation, I sit down with my closest collaborator and soul sister in this movement, Yolande Norris-Clark. Together, we unpack what it’s been like to build...
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A Raw and Personal Third 40-Week Wrap Up with Jonny & Emilee
What do you do when you're in the middle of your third pregnancy and a hate group forms to threaten your life? In this Season 9 premier, I sit down with my husband—and third-time guest—Jonny, for a raw and real 40-week wrap-up. We share honestly about what this year has demanded: deep growth…
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“I Will Walk in the Creek Again” with Sister MorningStar
To close this season, I wanted to bring you a guest whose presence and legacy transcend words, so I invited back the legendary elder midwife, @sistermorningstar. In this powerful and intimate conversation, Sister MorningStar shares the stories of her three births, her lifelong devotion to...
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The Altar of Birth: Me, God, and My Baby
Today, I welcome Kiana—a devoted woman, mother, and former student midwife (turned MMI graduate!) who chose to walk away from the captivity of the system and return to the wild. Living off-grid in a yurt she built with her own hands, Kiana shares the holy unfolding of her path to sovereignty. She...
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Breaking Free: A Nurse’s Radical Turn to Freebirth
In this powerful episode, I’m joined by MatriBirth Mentor Institute student, Darrah, who shares her transformational journey—from working within the medical system as a nurse to reclaiming her autonomy as a freebirthing, wild, and instinct-led mother. After birthing her first two sons in…
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A Lesbian Freebirth
I have Anna on the pod today telling the story of her two births with her wife by her side. Anna describes the complexity of navigating postpartum when her wife wanted to be included in the lactation process. Anna goes on to have a simple freebirth where she birthed exactly where and how she...
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Putting Down the Razor with Emilee & Danielle
Today on the podcast, Emilee and Danielle talk about body hair and the physiological function as well as the social aspects of allowing hair. In a culture where women are taught to be hairless in order to be both accepted and attractive, Emilee and Danielle share their own journeys of how they...
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Freebirth in Peru after Placental Abruption
Marta from Poland tells the story of her unique births that are deeply intertwined with the plant medicine work she practices in Peru. Following her intuition, she goes to the hospital and demands to stay, knowing something is wrong. Marta is rushed for an emergency c-section with a full…
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Becoming the Matriarch Who Freebirths
Today on the podcast, Rosie shares her massive transformation from a people pleasing daughter archetype to a fierce freebirthing wild mother. She shares how her journey was shaped by a difficult family dynamic, to the grief of losing her father, to living on the road with her husband and children...
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The German Legend and Her 9 Freebirths
On today’s episode, freebirth legend Sarah Schmid shares the story of 10 children, 9 of them being freebirths, several born outside and a set of twins. After a midwife-attended homebirth with interference in her birth, Sarah learned that she was the only one who knew her body, and chose freebirth...
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From People Pleasing to Embodiment: Choosing to Birth Alone
Today on the podcast, Abby shares her full 180-degree shift in mindset from being a pawn of the medical system throughout her growing years, to then becoming a wild, embodied mother, birthing her son entirely alone in her bathtub. After a medical midwife sabotaged Abby’s (surprise) breech…
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A Finnish Freebirth After Preterm Loss and a Vertical Incision
Today on the podcast, Radical Birth Keeper School graduate, Eveliina shares her three unique birth stories. At 30 weeks with her second child, Eveliina experienced bleeding and was coerced into an “emergency” c-section, leaving her with a painful vertical incision. The death of her daughter woke…
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The Olive Oil Queen’s Sovereign Birth
Mia, The Olive Oil Queen, shares her sweet story of sovereign birth as a first-time mom, supported by one of our Radical Birth Keeper graduates. Mia’s love of birth first came after witnessing a friend’s psychedelic birth at home where she was able to help care for her friend in her postpartum...
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When Freebirth Heals Your Birth Trauma
“I felt like I was in hell.” On today’s episode, Fanika shares the dehumanizing story of the birth of her first baby in a hospital in Florida. From non-consenting vaginal exams to a painful vacuum extraction birth, Fanika left her first birth feeling raped, disillusioned, and disembodied. Robbed…
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From Maiden to Mother: A Radical Birth Keeper’s Rise to Power
Today on the podcast, Kate from Santa Cruz shares the finding of her soul’s calling in sovereign birth-work and how that led to creating a thriving women’s circle community. After graduating from The Radical Birth Keeper School, Kate quickly began attending sovereign births in her community. Tune...
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First Time Mom Freebirths in Manchester, England
Today on the podcast, Kacea shares her beautiful freebirth story. Her journey to freebirth is a wonderful representation of the sovereign birth movement making its way through the world. From her upbringing with a mother who birthed at home, to having an entire friend group of freebirthers, Kacea...
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Navigating Stillbirth with Death Midwife & Funeral Director Dr. Ivy
Funeral director and death midwife, Dr. Ivy Margulies, is helping families to navigate a peaceful way of walking with the loss of a baby. She talks about the logistics and laws of stillbirth, the importance of a death plan, home funerals, and ways to commemorate the child. Follow Dr Ivy on...
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Surviving the Loss of Twins and a Smear Campaign in Australia
Sally shares her heart wrenching story of birthing her twin boys at home and the vicious nationwide media attacks that followed after one of the boys was stillborn and the other passed away shortly after. Follow Sally on Instagram @sallypatti ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership...
About this show
The Free Birth Society Podcast features honest, gripping, inspiring, and transformative freebirth stories hosted by the founder Emilee Saldaya in conversation with wild women worldwide. In the vast tapestry of childbirth experiences, a thread runs undisturbed, unmedicated, and true to its ancestral roots: freebirth. This differs from your usual home birth with doulas or midwives in attendance. Freebirth stands apart, where birthing is solely in the hands of the birthing woman, accompanied only by her intuition, rhythms of nature, witnessed by her family.The Free Birth Podcast invites you to a unique corner of the universe where we dive deep into the raw essence of birth, untamed and unassisted. Pushing against the tides of modern obstetrics and its violent approach, we venture into stories of women who've boldly chosen to claim this primal rite of passage. Here, we're not merely sharing tales; we're challenging the status quo and redefining the very narrative of childbirth.As we
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