Uploaded April 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
Today on the show we have Savannah, a graduate of The Radical Birth Keeper School, here to tell her big and important story of birth, single motherhood, loss, and claiming her freedom as a woman.
Savannah’s first birth resulted in heartbreaking, but common, midwifery sabotage, with an unnecessary transfer to the hospital.
Year later, Savannah re-partners, and finds herself pregnant again. Tragically, she lost that baby on her 40 week date. She tells the gutting story of birthing her stillborn son in the hospital. In her mourning, she was guided to this podcast, and then to our Radical Birth Keeper School, where she found deep healing and support.
Navigating her first birth outside the system and contending with fear, Savannah steps into her power and freebirths her next baby, just 11 months after the loss of her last baby.
These are the real and difficult conversations we do not shy away from in The RBK School. Birth work is death work. If you’re ready to lean into the depth of this work, this is our last call for this year’s session.
Go to radicalbirthkeeperschool.com
Grab some tissues and settle in for Savannah’s story.
Here's what you'll hear:
✨How a vision during her unexpected pregnancy solidified her decision to bring her son to earth.
✨Sabotage of her home birth and unnecessary transfer.
✨How she intuited during her 2nd pregnancy that something was wrong.
✨Her joy of experiencing birth and the grief that her baby had left his body.
✨Wisdom and guidance received through her loss.
✨How she found The RBK School, enrolled, and allowed it to blow her world open.
✨Her 3rd pregnancy and the magic of attending Matriarch Rising Festival at 35 weeks pregnant.
✨Her fast and intense freebirth witnessed by her husband and son.
✨The deep work of integrating grief with a new baby.
⭐ Join the Radical Birth Keeper School! Enrollment is open NOW- freebirthsociety.com/rbkwaitlist
⭐ Join the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute waitlist! Details drop later this spring- freebirthsociety.com/mmiwaitlist
CONNECT WITH FREE BIRTH SOCIETY 👇
We're *so close* to hitting our goal of videos for our Sovereign Birth collection on Youtube! Help us get there by submitting your video here - freebirthsociety.com/submit-your-story
Get our *FREE* Freebirth Starter Kit here - freebirthsociety.com/starterkitoptin
Matriarch Rising Festival: Get your tickets NOW! - matriarchrisingfestival.com
The Podcast: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway – whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or to dive deeper into sovereign living. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/free-birth-society/id1231912533
-The Complete Guide to Freebirth: a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power. freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf
-Follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth and so much more. instagram.com/freebirthsociety
-The Lighthouse: our exclusive membership for radical, curious, wild women. We only welcome new women to our private sanctuary a few times per year. freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist
-Feature Emilee: If you want Emilee Saldaya on your podcast send an invite to podcast@freebirthsociety.com
-If you feel called to make a donation to the podcast, it would be greatly appreciated. Click here to donate - paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y
Today on the show we have Savannah, a graduate of The Radical Birth Keeper School, here to tell her big and important story of birth, single motherhood, loss, and claiming her freedom as a woman.
Savannah’s first birth resulted in heartbreaking, but common, midwifery sabotage, with an unnecessary transfer to the hospital.
Year later, Savannah re-partners, and finds herself pregnant again. Tragically, she lost that baby on her 40 week date. She tells the gutting story of birthing her stillborn son in the hospital. In her mourning, she was guided to this podcast, and then to our Radical Birth Keeper School, where she found deep healing and support.
Navigating her first birth outside the system and contending with fear, Savannah steps into her power and freebirths her next baby, just 11 months after the loss of her last baby.
These are the real and difficult conversations we do not shy away from in The RBK School. Birth work is death work. If you’re ready to lean into the depth of this work, this is our last call for this year’s session.
Go to radicalbirthkeeperschool.com
Grab some tissues and settle in for Savannah’s story.
Here's what you'll hear:
✨How a vision during her unexpected pregnancy solidified her decision to bring her son to earth.
✨Sabotage of her home birth and unnecessary transfer.
✨How she intuited during her 2nd pregnancy that something was wrong.
✨Her joy of experiencing birth and the grief that her baby had left his body.
✨Wisdom and guidance received through her loss.
✨How she found The RBK School, enrolled, and allowed it to blow her world open.
✨Her 3rd pregnancy and the magic of attending Matriarch Rising Festival at 35 weeks pregnant.
✨Her fast and intense freebirth witnessed by her husband and son.
✨The deep work of integrating grief with a new baby.
⭐ Join the Radical Birth Keeper School! Enrollment is open NOW- freebirthsociety.com/rbkwaitlist
⭐ Join the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute waitlist! Details drop later this spring- freebirthsociety.com/mmiwaitlist
CONNECT WITH FREE BIRTH SOCIETY 👇
We're *so close* to hitting our goal of videos for our Sovereign Birth collection on Youtube! Help us get there by submitting your video here - freebirthsociety.com/submit-your-story
Get our *FREE* Freebirth Starter Kit here - freebirthsociety.com/starterkitoptin
Matriarch Rising Festival: Get your tickets NOW! - matriarchrisingfestival.com
The Podcast: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway – whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or to dive deeper into sovereign living. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/free-birth-society/id1231912533
-The Complete Guide to Freebirth: a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power. freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf
-Follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth and so much more. instagram.com/freebirthsociety
-The Lighthouse: our exclusive membership for radical, curious, wild women. We only welcome new women to our private sanctuary a few times per year. freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist
-Feature Emilee: If you want Emilee Saldaya on your podcast send an invite to podcast@freebirthsociety.com
-If you feel called to make a donation to the podcast, it would be greatly appreciated. Click here to donate - paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y






![She Birthed Her Twins Unassisted at 40 Weeks
What happens when you choose a normal birth with twins?
In this episode, I speak with Nicole, a mother from South Africa now living in the U.S., who chose sovereignty in one of the most medicalized and “high-risk” experiences imaginable: an identical twin pregnancy. From the very beginning, she was met with fear-based narratives—warnings of stillbirth, premature labor, and twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome. But after enduring traumatic experiences in hospitals and with midwives, Nicole knew she would not birth her twins within the system.
Instead, she underwent a profound process of deconditioning and committed to trusting her body. With the steady support of her husband, a Radical Birth Keeper graduate, and a community of women walking this same path, Nicole carried her twins to 40 weeks and welcomed them at home, in embodied sovereignty.
Nicole shares the raw reality of holding responsibility for twins outside the system: the constant conversations about risk, the deep conviction it took to turn away completely, and the profound freedom of reclaiming birth on her own terms.
Inside this episode:
- What Nicole witnessed in the hospital that made her vow never to return
- How she carried her twins to full term, trusting her body’s wisdom
- The support she found in a community of sovereign mothers
- What labor with twins looked like at home
- The double standard of blame when outcomes differ at home versus in the hospital
- The freedom and healing that come with birthing twins in sovereignty
Timestamps:
[00:00] Introduction
[02:59] Two miscarriages and lack of support and answers from the medical system
[07:05] Receiving news of a third unviable pregnancy and deciding not to take the pill
[09:02] Discovering that the medical system was wrong about her third pregnancy, and that her baby was alive and healthy in her womb
[11:19] Birthing her first son in a birthing center with a midwife, forced interventions, a fourth degree tear, and newborn separation
[21:36] Postpartum hospital trauma, overreactions and threats
[25:15] Another miscarriage and humiliating hospital treatment
[32:13] Finding out she was pregnant with twins, midwife refusing to provide care, and choosing freebirth
[1:00:00] Freebirthing her twins at home with her husband and birth attendant present
If you want to connect more with Nicole, follow her on https://www.instagram.com/ nicholelee.
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/ She Birthed Her Twins Unassisted at 40 Weeks](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/eCT4ob8wviU/mqdefault.jpg)



