Emilee Saldaya is the owner and creator of Free Birth Society, an underground movement of people reclaiming their autonomy through pregnancy, childbirth, and parenthood.
Here is what Emilee and I spoke about:
-Matriarchal households, Emilee and her partner's chosen last name as an act of feminism, and how all of our last names come from patriarchal lineages.
-How they chose their last name and where it comes from.
-What does it mean to have a free life?
-Western marriage, and Emilee's thoughts on traditional, government instituted marriage.
-Meaning and origin of the word 'Doula.'
-The relationship between violence and lack of mother/baby attachment. 'The Physics Of Love' book: https://www.amazon.com/Physics-Love-Ultimate-Universal-Laws/dp/1572820020
-The importance for children to have a powerful, confident, autonomous mother.
-How Emilee became a doula and why she ultimately stopped doing that work.
-The foundations of violence and abuse in the obstetrical model of care.
-How doulas lack any authority or power with a laboring woman.
-Rules and regulations of licensed midwifery.
-The maternity model of care stems from how society doesn't trust women to make their own choices about their body/families.
-The false idea that a woman can be a "good candidate" or not for a home birth.
-Our collective cultural fear of physiological birth.
-What is a truly natural (physiological) birth? "The first intervention is leaving your home."
-How "we never really know anything," and fear of the unknown is the root of consenting to medicalized care, but it's ultimately counterproductive.
- Men traditionally as head of households and the decision makers are choosing how women in their family give birth and the negative impacts of that.
-Emilee doesn't participate in the all inclusive birth organizations/groups/rhetoric because, "To stand for something means you stand against things."
The Free Birth Society:
https://www.freebirthsociety.com/
Free Birth Society Facebook Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/freebirthsociety/
Free Birth Podcast:
Soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/user-754199824
iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/free-birth-exploring-autonomy-in-childbirth/id1231912533?mt=2
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