Welcome to the Free Birth Podcast, a supportive space for people who are learning, exploring, and celebrating their autonomous choices in childbirth. exploring and

exploring 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.

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This week we have Emily, a beautiful woman from New Zealand who settled with her

partner in Portugal where she now lives off the grid. Emily shares the journey of

following her truth and birthing her son alone with just her partner

and the story of her daughter's birth who was a surprise breach. Well so I was trying to work out when I made the decision to free birth and it was like there was so many, I was like, maybe it started here or maybe it started at this point, but I realized it started like way back with my parents and it was like who I was always going to be really.

Like with my mom, she's like so naturally inclined. She always she always you know she had all three of us

like vaginal hospital births and I was like the first posterior four seps and my sister

was like a footling breach with the nugal cord, you know, kind of scary things but my mom and my dad neither of them even made birth seem like dangerous or scary. And my mom always said, said you know the pain goes away as soon as the baby is born

so that sort of just like you know that sort of natural-minded this from my mom

so she's very open-minded to like new ideas and I think that kind of

rubs off for me as well. Nice yeah that makes a huge difference yeah and then from

my from my dad I guess he's like he can be quite skeptical about things like always

researching things to draw his own conclusion rather than doing what everyone else is doing.

So yeah that plays a part too and also being like quite stubborn.

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