A forceful free birth story about trust, pressure, and the practical choices around it.
This episode follows a free birth story shaped by a breech concern, and it treats the birth as a test of bodily trust, family pressure, and plain logistics.

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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...
A breech labor comes with a disputed guest list; you get birth autonomy with actual family friction.
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A forceful free birth story about trust, pressure, and the practical choices around it.
This episode follows a free birth story shaped by a breech concern, and it treats the birth as a test of bodily trust, family pressure, and plain logistics.

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This episode introduces the Free Birth Society Podcast, defining freebirth as an autonomous, unmedicated birth choice distinct from home births.
A mother shares her journey from vaccine injury and medical trauma to choosing freebirth for her first child, a breech baby, and later having a wild pregnancy with her second.
On Free Birth Society, Emily Saldea interviews Maui photographer Cadence about a planned home birth that ended in a Hawaii hospital during COVID.
Cheyenne chanted "thank you" to her body, baby, and ancestors during an unassisted birth.
A Tunisian-descended guest tells Emily Saldea how she moved from a 2015-era corporate career in Montreal to a birth-center birth, then to two freebirths in the Middle East.
Esme, born at home in England to a mother who freebirthed her and her sister, tells the Free Birth Society host Emily Saldea how that upbringing shaped her.
Free Birth Society's season-seven finale follows Meg, also known as Sister Nettle, from Max's 2020 midwife-attended birth toward a second pregnancy conceived after Matriarch Rising Festival.
Simone describes eight nights of contractions before a four-hour birth that began after an acupuncturist left.
Jinti Fell tells Emily Saldea that an accidental pregnancy began during a 2014-style travel period across Indonesia, the United States, and South America.