Freebirth: Truth, Honesty and Integrity

I wanted to talk to you about free birth balance and nuance, I guess, today, because as we know, you will see that one of the largest organisations, Schools of Radical Birth Keeping, is starting to come undone.

Now, this is something I've been aware of for a long time.

I went back on my Instagram and I saw that I'd posted a couple of reels about not having dogma and not being dogmatic about what we say.

And also that free birth is whatever you, how you name it yourself.

Because that was some of the issues that, you know, this large organization was was saying what you're allowed to say was controlling the narrative that free birth only exists in one way that is at the expense of everything else and you are not to engage with midwives with the hospital system and if you transfer during your home birth, your free birth, then you failed basically and we don't want to hear about it.

And if you dare challenge that narrative within the organisation, within the groups, you're kicked out.

Now, I know I interviewed somebody on the podcast.

It would be a couple of years ago now, and you can find it about postpartum hemorrhage.

And I believe that she Was cared for and supported by somebody who was a birth keeper with these quite extreme views.

And what was sad was that she had a great birth.

She did need to, she chose herself to transfer in and she is absolutely amazing.

you know happy with that decision and would choose to birth again we had a long lovely conversation together because what happened was her birth keeper just basically said I'm not interested I'm not talking to you about it and she was shut down about her experience and I remember seeing her and I think she reached out to me first and that's why I said would you like to come on the podcast because I Everyone needs a space to be held by the person who has supported them, to know that they're there in their corner and they're not being judged for their actions around their birth.