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.

Hey everyone quick announcement here in honor of all of the free birth

babies that have been born in our new membership this past month we are giving

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Today's episode is with Andrea from Go Dipper Free.

But this show isn't about elimination communication.

It's about Andrea and her journey to free birth.

Her first birth was sabotaged by her midwives in California,

sending her into postpartum depression.

She then moved to a state where Midwifery was illegal.

And so with her second, she began compassing towards doing it at home on her own.

Andrea is brutally honest about her own journey of facing her fears and how much work

there was to do within herself to finally free birth her fifth baby in

full power.

So my journey to motherhood really started when I became pregnant with my first child

which was I guess nine-ish years ago because he's eight now, eight and a half. I had never, like most women, I never had experience with seeing birth, being around birth. I babysat newborns in my neighborhood but never really put the

I never I never had any kind of consciousness about any type of birth. So when I became

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