Leading by Example with Radical Birth Keeper and Freebirther Jess Owens

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Today, Radical Birth Keeper School graduate and sovereign birth attendant, Jess Owens, joins me on the show sharing her two birth stories. Jess started her mothering journey with a seemingly acceptable midwife-attended homebirth in England, and although there were things that left a bad taste in her mouth, she felt lucky to birth at home without complications. After a few international moves, and learning more about physiological birth, she and her family moved to Canada and Jess began attending births outside of the system. Jess became pregnant again, and enrolled in the RBK school, all while building community and a flourishing birthkeeping business, entirely by word of mouth. She goes on to birth her son in total power, as did so many other women from her cohort! Jess offers a beautiful story of trust and the incredible ripple effect that taking birth back into the hands of women creates.

Here’s what you’ll hear in Jess’s story:

✨️How during her first pregnancy, she never met her assigned midwife, but instead a different person for every single appointment.

✨️How at 6 months pregnant she decided to have a homebirth, hired a doula, thinking that this was the most holistic plan available to her.

✨️How the medical midwives who showed up at her home were complete strangers she’d never met before.

✨️How she was forced into vaginal exams, pressured and annoyed by the midwives, and how she wanted to just swat them away.

✨️How her views on motherhood and birth begin to shift as she heard the call to work with birthing women outside the system.

✨️How she and her family move back to Canada and she was offered an opportunity to be a backup for a local woman attending sovereign births.

✨️How she attended her first birth outside of the system and then, through word of mouth, women just kept coming, and her community truly called her into this work.

✨️How she continued to attend births while pregnant with her son, and the easy wild pregnancy she experienced.

✨️Her debate between getting an ultrasound or not, and what she resolved to do.

✨️The simple and sweet freebirth story of her son, free of annoyance or external pressure.

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