Healing Birth

Emilee Saldaya is the trail blazing leader and founder of Free Birth Society. She was a doula for over ten years, until the reality of her complicity with the obstetric system and the harms that it does to women and babies prompted her to find a better way. In aligning with freebirth, Emilee's dharmic path became clear. She quickly evolved into a "Radical Birth Keeper" who serves women birthing outside the system.

Join us this week as we discuss freebirth, intuition vs. fear, taking radical responsibility, transmuting trauma into power (by saying NO MORE), and so much more.

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Clancey share the stories of her two births. The first, a traumatic forceps delivery, and the second, a free miscarriage.

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https://www.clancyallen.com/healing-from-birth/

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Join us this week for another conversation about giving birth in the time of coronavirus. We discuss what authentically supporting birthing women looks like now, how we can show up for our sisters, and near the end of the show, Isabella has a beautiful message for anyone who is pregnant and facing uncertainty about her birth.

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@whosebodyisit www.whosebodyisit.com

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Lynnea Laessig (@mamtukibirth) returns to the show to discuss the topic that's on all of our minds.

We explore the rapidly changing recommendations and regulations affecting birthing women during the perceived pandemic. Spoiler: they're not good for women and they're not good for birth.

Lynnea sums it up best when she says: " this isn't a new issue, it's just being amplified."

Can it be that, at the highest level, what we are experiencing right now is a wake up call to examine societal systems that haven't been working for a long time, and step into our own sovereignty?

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Can childhood trauma affect how we experience giving birth?

This week, my guest Britney shares how trauma showed up for her in her first two birth experiences, and how she as able to totally shift it for a healing third birth. She invites a surprise guest to that birth, a story you will not want to miss.

Article link: https://birthboobsandbabies.com/2020/02/17/how-my-third-birth-began-healing-a-lifetimes-worth-of-trauma/

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Diana has a message for you about the pandemic.

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FEAR. Most of us experience some fear when approaching a birth. It's practically taught to us. It's in the cultural ether, passed down in the stories we hear, and the media depictions of birth.

But maybe your fear comes from a place of having had a previous traumatic birth experience. How do you cope with that? Is it possible - maybe even necessary- to be completely over your fear? Will being afraid of birthing again mean you will manifest a bad birth experience?

In this episode, Diana talks about all of those questions and more. She shares her personal journey with fear in both of her pregnancies and births, and shares her favorite, super practical coping strategies for coping with birth fears.

A special thanks to my friend Austin Edge @findercurator for composing new, original music for the show!

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Carey Chapman Glenn is a mother, midwife, and producer of the gorgeous birth film These Are My Hours.

In addition to a discussion about the film, Carey shares her own birth stories on the show today. She experienced two cesarean births, the last one being one she describes as a healing experience. Intriguing, right?

This is one of those interviews where I teared up a few times. Be sure to stick around to the very end for that.

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When Carla found out her baby was going to be born with a cleft palate, and her immediate life outside the womb filled with surgeries and hospitals, she knew she wanted to give her child the most peaceful birth experience possible.

Sometimes it's not the birth itself that's traumatic, but the intensity of the postpartum time.

We also talk about cultural beliefs in the Dominican Republic (where she is from) around birth, and how the experience of being sexually harassed as a child came up for her during the birth process.

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Tune in for a RADICALLY HONEST conversation between Diana & Lynnea on the transparency (or lack of) around the cultural expectations of these roles. Women serving women in birth is not a new concept, and it's crucial for the preservation of birth and the well-being of women and babies to acknowledge the appropriation of traditional wise-woman practices into the modern day "band-aid" we market to women today. Hiring a doula or midwife alone is not enough to save you from the system, or the trauma that comes with it. Here we explore why and how you can use this information to protect your birth space, what finally, what is a "true" sense of security?