Today, I'm talking with licensed midwife turned radical birth keeper, Kemi "BirthJoy" Johnson. After two traumatic hospital births of her own, and nearly four decades of pursuing medical midwifery, Kemi was faced with the harsh realities of the medical system over and over again, and decided to remove herself from it- for her sake, and the sake of the women that she served. In this episode, we talk about the modern day witch-hunt of traditional midwives by the medical industry, what it looks like to serve women in integrity, and how women like Kemi are reclaiming the word "midwife" all over the world. Watch this interview on Youtube: &nbsp; ENROLL IN THE BLOOD MYSTERIES SCHOOL:&nbsp;&nbsp; ENROLL IN THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: &nbsp; GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: &nbsp; JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: &nbsp; 1:1 COACHING WITH EMILEE SALDAYA: &nbsp; ALL FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: &nbsp; MATRIACH RISING FESTIVAL | JUNE 19-24, 2022: &nbsp; FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: &nbsp; FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: &nbsp; SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY:

Laying Down the License to Truly Serve Women with Kemi BirthJoy Johnson

Today on the show we have Heather from Michigan, mother of four and a new midwife. From an induction at a hospital with her first birth, to two midwife assisted births, to then choosing a free birth outside in her backyard at almost 43 weeks, Heather shares the journey of how her birthing experiences led her to the path of midwifery and her own self empowerment.

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The Journey Of 4...From A Hospital Induction To Free Birthing Outside

The Free Birth Podcast explores what it means to have full autonomy and choice during pregnancy and childbirth. In a technologically obsessed culture where obstetrics has taken over the managment of women's births in the last century, we now find ourselves with an epidemic of surgical births, countless traumatizing birth stories and a deeply imbedded resistance to the normalcy of birth. Pregnancy is treated as an illness and childbirth as an emergency from which women and babies need to be saved. 

Before there were doctors, even midwives, there was just...birth. Women have been successfully birthing healthy babies for as long as we have been alive. Birth is a normal physiological event that rarely needs true medical intervention. To free birth is typically associated with the term unassisted childbirth, meaning a person is choosing to birth without medical assistance and is managing her own care. It can also be extended to mean birthing freely within a medical model - if it's clear the pregnant mother is the leader. This podcast is a virtual corner of the universe to celebrate and validate the movement to reclaim birth as our own. Birth is not a medical event. Join us this year as we discuss legal and human rights in childbirth, investigate the different models of care, and hear from women around the world as they tell their stories of birthing freely. 

*Our intention with this podcast is to lift the voices of people making the decision to opt out of the default medical system and treat their pregnancy and birth as a non medical event, doing what they feel is safest for their babies. This podcast does not suggest that everyone should be seeking similar birthing choices, or that it is the right and only way, but rather to highlight that for some people who choose, free birth is a perfectly safe and viable option. There is enough room in this world for everyone's personal choices, in birth and beyond. 

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Laying Down the License to Truly Serve Women with Kemi BirthJoy Johnson

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