Into the wild I'll go and into the wild I am.

It's been a wild freedom child since I left my roots back home.

Into the wild I'll go go into the wild I am.

It's been a while freedom child since I let my roots back home.

Welcome to the Free Birth Society podcast.

This is a radical space for women who are ready to celebrate their autonomous choices in birth, motherhood, and beyond.

Together, we'll learn about wild birth through personal narrative,

we'll explore the politics of birth, and we'll analyze everything that relates to our lives as women from a feminist perspective.

Here's your host, Emily Saldaa. It's been a wild freedom child.

Since I've left my rules back home.

All right, welcome, Chavonon so happy to have you

lovely to be here lovely

yeah i'm excited to hear your story and

i just want you to take your time and take us from the beginning

and tell us about who you are in this big motherhood journey that you're on.

It's interesting, you know, that question, when did you decide to have a free birth, you know?

I decided to have a free birth in my first pregnancy. And I read, I was lucky, I moved into a house and it was beside this other woman and she

had this library of all these enlightened, you know, the alternative literature that every

young mother should find.

And I read the birthkeepers and Laura Shanley's unassisted childbirth.

And these two books were, they had a profound impact on me. And I was like, this is it.

I just, because the situation that I was in was, I was 36. It was my first pregnancy. We didn't have a home. We were kind of moving around. And I applied for the H.S.C. Homebirth. So the Health Service Executive in Ireland has a home birth scheme. And now it's very minimal. And the insurance requirements on these midwives are really strict.

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