Stop serving the system -with Kemi Johnson Birth Activist.

So going on to like a currently, what is firing you up? That's what always burns this, that burning question.

Let's explore what is currently happening.

That one of the things how I would describe you as somebody who is like sort of passionate and vocal and not afraid to call people out, to call out the system.

And you know, there's no sort of like, oh, sort of like.

I can't think of the right word, but sort of dancing around the facts of what the truth is, which is this podcast, Birth Truth, this thing that fires me up, that we have to keep this truth alive because those of us who have been around long enough know that it doesn't have to be like this.

But to be honest, it's always been like this in the system, I do believe.

And it's not like we've come to some really hideous place right now.

It was fucking awful years ago, 20 years ago.

I was questioning myself.

I was being bullied.

Why have I decided to do this job? This is obviously the wrong job for me.

So, Kemi, give me your thoughts.

What is coming up for you right now? Because I know that there is some real burning stuff out there.

Yeah.

I mean, they had creative ways of torturing women and their children when they when I was born 58 years ago, my mum was gave birth to me under twilight sleep.

She was tethered and drugged and had someone inside of her vagina every two hours, but doesn't remember any of it.

And then I was dragged out as soon as she was fully by forceps.

And I still have, when I have weakness on my left side from one of the forceps.

So I have unusual, you know, you know, less than optimal eyesight, my left eye and hearing in my left ear.

So I, and then 33 years ago when I gave birth, yeah, I was tortured in a different way, um, with induction of labor, unnecessary induction of labor, which of course cascaded to a cesarean.

It was my first birth.

Um, And yes, so, you know, the ways of torturing women and babies, and I will keep using the word torturing, and you listeners, you know, I know it has been fashionable in the past not to listen to elders and not to listen, Ebony and I, as young and hot as we are, are elders, yeah.

It used to be fashionable to not listen to us, just dismiss us, put us out to pasture, but actually...

I think you need to listen up because if you keep trying to serve this system or encouraging people into this system, you know, I teach hypnobirthing, but it's certainly not the strokey, strokey, greedy, greedy hypnobirthing.

It's the one with facts in there that we need to know, right? So the physiology works better out of the unit.