11/23/2025
This article is sickening because it flattens a deeply complex conversation into a fear-bait headline. It takes the sacred act of women reclaiming their bodies and reduces it to caricature. It erases our intelligence, our lineage, our intuition, and the centuries of wisdom behind physiological birth.
What gets left out—always—is that life and death walk with us in every setting. Not just outside the system. Not just in the woods. Not just in the villages, or in our living rooms.
Death happens in hospitals too, every single day, and often not because “nature failed,” but because systems intervene, rush, disrupt, and dominate a process they barely understand.
But you’ll never see a headline like:
“Hospital protocols linked to baby deaths around the world.”
Even though preventable harm inside the system is well-documented.
Even though iatrogenic injury is one of the leading causes of death in modern medicine.
Even though thousands of families walk out of those institutions grieving, unheard, and forever changed.
The difference is simple:
When a system causes harm, it gets labeled “tragic but necessary.”
When a woman claims her own authority, every outcome gets weaponized against her.
This article pretends that freebirth is the wild, reckless fringe—when in truth, what’s “wild” is how disconnected we’ve become from our own bodies.
What’s “radical” is not birthing at home.
What’s radical is handing our power over so fully that we forget we were born with instincts, biology, autonomy, and ancestral knowing.
Leaders like Yolande Norris-Clark, Emilee Saldaya, Jeannine Parvati Baker, and the great midwives and anthropologists before them have spent decades reminding us that women are not medical events.
Birth is not pathology.
And sovereignty is not a trend—
it’s a remembering.
The real heartbreak here is not that women choose freebirth.
It’s that many are doing it without the deep internal work, the study, the commitment, or the introspection that true sovereignty requires.
This path is not podcast-inspired rebellion.
It’s a rite of passage that demands responsibility, presence, discernment, and courage.
My freebirth changed my life.
Not because it was “easy” or “perfect,” but because I stepped back into myself.
I met my daughter and I met the parts of me I had abandoned.
I felt the intelligence of my body in a way the system never allowed me to.
I reclaimed what was always mine.
Birth will always carry the full spectrum—
life, death, transformation, grief, ecstasy, mystery.
No article can sanitize that.
No institution can guarantee safety.
No headline will ever tell the truth about what women lose when they surrender their authority to a system that was never built in their image.
What’s truly terrifying is not women birthing outside the system.
What’s terrifying is a culture that believes women are incapable without it.
A culture so estranged from nature that sovereignty looks like danger
and submission looks like “care.”
I will always defend a woman’s right to choose how she brings her child into the world.
And I will always speak for those of us who know—
deep in the marrow—
that physiological birth is not dangerous.
Forgetting who we are is đź”»
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors