Welcome to the Free Birth Podcast, a supportive space for people who are learning,

exploring and celebrating 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. Have you ever heard of a 10 minute birth? I hadn't until I sat with Lindsay and listened to her story.

After having four deeply unsatisfactory births in the hospital,

she knew she wanted something different with her fifth child.

Realizing that they wouldn't be able to afford a midwife,

Lindsay chose free birth and began her life altering shift

from playing the good girl to becoming

the self-assured powerful woman she is today.

Lindsey shares with us the story of her most recent birth, her first daughter, that from

start to finish lasted 10 painless minutes.

Okay, well I'll start with my mom is a very medicalized person herself. She's a

nurse, a registered nurse, and has always worked in an emergency room setting or

a doctor's office. She's very diabetic and has thyroid issues and plethora of health problems.

So her pregnancy with me was a rough one.

And she had maybe a C section of about 34 weeks. I was

born very healthy. I was six pounds and the doctors were determined that there had to

be something wrong with me because of my mom's health issues.

So she said my feet were black and blue from being poked so many times to be tested for my blood sugar.

And she didn't get to see me for almost two days

because they kept me in the NICU trying to figure out

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