Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
Funeral director and death midwife, Dr. Ivy Margulies, is helping families to navigate a peaceful way of walking with the loss of a baby. She talks about the logistics and laws of stillbirth, the importance of a death plan, home funerals, and ways to commemorate the child.
Follow Dr Ivy on Instagram @drivymargulies
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This episode is brought to you by Dr. Jennifer Tice, ND - Naturopathic Pediatrician + Homeopathic Expert 🌿
Experience personalized naturopathic care tailored to your unique needs. Dr. Jennifer Tice, ND combines her extensive knowledge with a compassionate radical mom approach to help you achieve optimal health for you and your family.
You’ll want to check out Jen’s sought-after Food Intolerance Test. This test helps identify foods that may be causing toxemia in the body leading to digestive issues, inflammation, and most other symptoms. Having this information about your body’s food sensitivities is absolutely life-changing!
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Funeral director and death midwife, Dr. Ivy Margulies, is helping families to navigate a peaceful way of walking with the loss of a baby. She talks about the logistics and laws of stillbirth, the importance of a death plan, home funerals, and ways to commemorate the child.
Follow Dr Ivy on Instagram @drivymargulies
drivylove.com
✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” - Doors open February 24th for just a few short days! - freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist
✨ Enrollment is open for MatriBirth Family, our signature Sovereign Childbirth Education program. This is a 6 week *live* series taught by Emilee Saldaya and Yolande Norris-Clark. We only run it once a year and limit it to 20 spots - freebirthsociety.com/matribirthfamily
✨ Matriarch Rising Festival tickets are now LIVE! Join us for our annual women’s gathering - matriarchrisingfestival.com
✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at - instagram.com/freebirthsociety
✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf
✨ Join the waitlist for the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute - freebirthsociety.com/mmiwaitlist
✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - freebirthsociety.com/start-here
✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the MatriBirth Directory here - Matribirthdirectory.com
✨Join the MatriBirth Directory and connect with sovereign birth professionals near you! - matribirthdirectory.com
✨ Get on the waitlist for REIGN ~ Emilee Saldaya’s action-oriented coaching container that is guaranteed to elevate you into your next phase of life for 2025 - freebirthsociety.com/reign
✨Donate to the podcast - paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y
✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety
✨Learn about everything we do at - freebirthsociety.com
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This episode is brought to you by Dr. Jennifer Tice, ND - Naturopathic Pediatrician + Homeopathic Expert 🌿
Experience personalized naturopathic care tailored to your unique needs. Dr. Jennifer Tice, ND combines her extensive knowledge with a compassionate radical mom approach to help you achieve optimal health for you and your family.
You’ll want to check out Jen’s sought-after Food Intolerance Test. This test helps identify foods that may be causing toxemia in the body leading to digestive issues, inflammation, and most other symptoms. Having this information about your body’s food sensitivities is absolutely life-changing!
Work with Dr Jennifer Tice - Traditional Vitalist Naturopathic Healthcare: drjennifertice.com







![Unpacking the Choice to Not Register Your Baby After Birth With Freebirther Veda Ray
What if the birth certificate was never for your baby—but a tool of control used by the state?
In this episode, I sit down with Veda Ray, a freebirthing mother of two, who chose to walk a path most women never even consider: birthing and raising her second child completely outside the system. No pregnancy test. No monitoring. No birth certificate. No social security number.
After her first birth at a birth center, Veda knew she wanted something different. This time, she listened deeply—to her body, to her baby, and to her own intuition—and what she heard was clear: this child was to be born free.
We go deep into the realities of living outside the system, including how she navigated the legal terrain to secure a passport without government-issued ID, why she believes the birth certificate is a jurisdictional trap, and the spiritual responsibility of saying no to the state’s contracts.
Inside this episode:
- What really happens when you don’t get a birth certificate or Social Security number for your child
- The process Veda used to get a passport without a state-issued ID
- Why a “family Bible” can hold legal weight in proving lineage and identity
- How the social security number binds your child into the U.S. corporate system
- The link between freebirth and reclaiming jurisdiction over your body and family
- What it’s like to raise a child who has never been registered by the state
- The unseen cost of outsourcing authority—and what you reclaim when you stop
Timestamps:
[00:00] Introduction
[02:01] Choosing radical self-trust after rejecting the medical model
[09:21] Learning to sit in the unknown and trust yourself through freebirth
[22:54] Rethinking the birth certificate as a contract with the state and choosing a sovereign path instead
[26:08] Creating private records to get a passport without a birth certificate
[36:47] Using private trusts and EINs as alternatives to social security numbers and state contracts
[52:44] Facing fear, claiming trust, and birthing in full sovereignty with family by your side
Resources Mentioned:
The Business of Being Born | https://imdb.to/3K86Zqc
If you want to connect with Veda, follow her on https://www.instagram.com/veda.revival/ and you can find her website here: https://vedarevival.com/
Find more from Emilee on:
https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/, https://www.youtube.com/@UCW5LVxPY3UnJ3iS5CAaD97A and the Free Birth Society website: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/ Unpacking the Choice to Not Register Your Baby After Birth With Freebirther Veda Ray](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PecysOe7dew/mqdefault.jpg)


