Exploring the importance of community support during the journey of pregnancy and freebirth preparation, where the learning and unlearning happens, where women choose the wisdom they want to absorb, often from one another.
Betty recounts her deeply emotional experience of freebirthing her stillborn son, Elis, in November 2024, sharing a poignant story of love, grief, and profound sorrow in this interview.
2 Jul 2025
Milly's 6 Day Labour For Her Brow Presentation Baby
Milly recounts her empowering journey through a wild pregnancy and freebirth, navigating a challenging six-day labor to deliver her brow presentation baby at home, demonstrating the strength found in informed, autonomous birth choices.
19 Jun 2025
Elisabeth Self Manages a PPH After The Planned Freebirth of Her 11lb4 Babyy
Elisabeth shares her empowering journey of confidently planning and executing an unassisted home birth of her large baby, then navigating significant postpartum blood loss without medical intervention, and advocating for her newborn's care.
12 Jun 2025
Abigail Secretly Hopes No Midwives Turn Up & Gets Her Wish
Abigail recounts her transformative freebirth experience with her second child after a challenging first birth, highlighting the power of research and community support.
5 Jun 2025
Laurie Freebirths With Group B Strep Then Waits 17 Hours For Her Placenta
Laurie recounts her empowering freebirth journey, fueled by community support and challenging medical advice regarding Group B Strep, culminating in a blissful home birth followed by a prolonged wait for the placenta.
29 May 2025
Georgie Begins Her Solo Parenting With A Blissful Freebirth
Georgie recounts her empowering experience planning a solo freebirth surrounded by supportive women, which led to a joyful postpartum and easeful parenting journey in this interview.
22 May 2025
Roz Freebirths On MLU With Uterus Didelphys
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 ability to birth from outside voices.
And yet how a deep self trust carried her through to birth her baby on the MLU with no medical intervention or midwifery presence, despite additional hurdles of iron level and glucose levels thrown in her path. She then talks us through her symptomatic post-partum haemorrhage that she managed calmly, slowly, and in full control.
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15 May 2025
Kate Quietens The Noise and Freebirths At 44 Weeks
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 pregnancy lasted 44 weeks and how she managed her relationship with the NHS throughout.
As well of details of her 3 day labour and the triumphs and challenges it brought. It’s an excellent demonstration of what a woman chooses and how she behaves when the people around her are supportive but aren’t at all influencing or steering.
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8 May 2025
Anuschka Expertly Combines Heart & Mind While Preparing For Birth
Anuschka speaks with beautiful wisdom about the intricacies of information gathering and decision making, the effort and research required to challenge medical midwifery guidance, and the importance of finding the path that feels fully right to you.
She also reflects on the life long impact she has experienced since learning to confidently trust herself since the unintentional, but entirely welcome freebirth of her son.
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1 May 2025
Rhiannon, an NHS Midwife, Freebirths After Her Previous Caesarean.
Rhiannon briefly runs through her first birth experience, a post dates induction turned caesarean, and explains how she came to realise freebirth was the clear choice for her second pregnancy after all other options just didn’t feel right.
She grapples with personally leaning ever further away from the NHS whilst still working as a midwife, being labelled low PAPP-A, and the ongoing difficulty of turning down recommendations from medical staff who are also colleagues.
After her 6 hour pushing stage we also touch on the crucial ability for any support people to be able to allow the birthing woman to express frustration, concern, distress, pain, exasperation without jumping to take action, and instead being able to wait and determine whether or not they actually want anything to be different.
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17 Apr 2025
Claudia Freebirths With Self Managed Hypertension
Claudia shares the story of deciding to freebirth her second son, after midwives and paramedics had interrupted her 3rd stage with her first baby and caused her to transfer to hospital. This time she knew exactly what she wanted to avoid, and how she wanted the birth to go.
However, she also learns the risk of not entirely communicating the plan to her partner, when unwanted midwives and paramedics are called in.
She also navigates having to make decisions around her persistent high blood pressure and possible signs of pre eclampsia.
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10 Apr 2025
Agnieszka Chooses a Free Lotus Birth
Agnieszka shares the story of getting total clarity on her freebirth plans for her fourth baby, and then digging deep for patience and trust during her 4 hour wait to birth her placenta naturally for the first time, We talk about the need to build your own supportive community when you don’t have family and friends on side, the wisdom to know your don’t want to birth with your partner or older children present, and she describes her beautifully simple birth while busy family life went on uninterrupted downstairs. She also tells of preparing her lotus birth and the difference her strictly restful postpartum period made to healing.
Join us for the Mother Blessing, 25th May
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If you would like to take the conversation further,
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3 Apr 2025
Laura Heals Past Birth Trauma With a Family Freebirth.
Laura tells us of her third birth, after a traumatic induction, and an eye opening birth centre experience, she finally realises that free birth is the way for her. We talk about the impact of a trusting partner, and how it feels when your community have faith in you. She also passionately describes the urge to protect herself from any further contact from maternity services, and avoid what she saw as any potential sabotage of her vision and how this, rather than the birth, was the hardest part.
Join us for the Mother Blessing, 25th May
www.folkeybirthclub.co.uk/mother-blessing (www.folkeybirthclub.co.uk/mother-blessing)
If you would like to take the conversation further,
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27 Mar 2025
Magda Realises in Labour She Would Prefer Freebirth over Midwives
Today Magda takes us on her journey from fear of birth, after having been raised with the narrative that childbirth almost killed her and her mother, through discovering doulas and the birth circle, to planning for a home birth that ultimately she chose not to call midwives to.
If you would like to take the conversation further,
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20 Mar 2025
Chloe FBACs Her Breech Baby and Suffers Punitive Treatment
Chloe talks about the journey her second pregnancy took her on that ultimately resulted in her choosing a freebirth for her breech baby following a previous caesarean. She also generously shares her experience following a call to paramedics during her baby’s slow transition to life outside, of suffering at the hands of the local hospital, the harm caused by paramedics, the involvement of police and the punitive treatment of staff on the NICU.
If you would like to take the conversation further,
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13 Mar 2025
Lara's Eyes Are Opened During a Less-Than-Perfect Hospital Birth
Lara, a pillar of the community and the initial trailblazer in town, generously shares her two birth stories with us, which have been split into two parts. In this episode she describes how she feels she “got away with” having her first baby vaginally in hospital with minimal intervention, and yet still how unnatural it felt, leading her to make dramatically different plans for her second. @LaraDiprose.Doula (https://www.instagram.com/laradiprose.doula/)
If you would like to take the conversation further,
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13 Mar 2025
Meet your host, Betty.
Welcome to Freebirth Folke.
In this episode I introduce myself, and the inspiration behind telling these stories.
I hope you enjoy!
If you would like to take the conversation further,
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13 Mar 2025
Lara Rejects Her High BMI Risk Label and Freebirths
In this episode we hear part two of Lara’s birth stories, when she freebirths her son. With plenty of chat about what we expect from partners, the difference it makes to be supported by people who trust you, responding to a newborn that doesn’t immediately breathe or cry, and making medical decisions about your newborn. @LaraDiprose.Doula (https://www.instagram.com/laradiprose.doula/)
If you would like to take the conversation further,
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If you would like to say thank you for the podcast and help to keep our work going we'd be so grateful for any donations. (https://pay.sumup.com/b2c/QOHFVU8D)
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