Freebirth Folke

In this season finale, I want to share with you the story of my most recent birth. The stillbirth of my boy, Elis. In November 2024, 8 months ago, after a difficult pregnancy filled with doubt and hop...

10 Heinä 20251h 59min

Milly shares the story of her pregnancy and first birth, in which she realises at 16 weeks that medical midwifery isn’t the support she wants, and that she’d rather continue with a wild pregnancy, fre...

2 Heinä 20251h 6min

Elisabeth, a self professed people pleaser, figures out what she feels comfortable saying no to and what she finds herself agreeing to without question. She has the clarity from the offset to refuse t...

19 Kesä 20251h 18min

Abigail takes us briefly through her initial birth in which she experienced a postpartum hospital transfer after what she describes as midwifery sabotage, and how doing her research and absorbing from...

12 Kesä 20251h 41min

Laurie shares the story of her second pregnancy, in which she comes to realise that the hospital hadn’t saved her and her baby in her first birth, as she had always believed, and describes the anger s...

5 Kesä 20251h 24min

Georgie speaks with pure delight about making plans for the birth of her first baby. As a single woman preparing to parent alone she shares the ways in which this added challenge, and the ways it adde...

29 Touko 202547min

Roz explains how uterus didelphys and polycystic ovaries contributed to a long and difficult journey to finally becoming pregnant, and then came a constant stream of discouragement and doubt in her ab...

22 Touko 20251h 38min

In today’s episode Kate shares her first birth story. She speaks of the simplicity of making her home birth choice after hearing other’s experiences, the challenge she was faced with when her pregnanc...

15 Touko 20251h 31min