Oct 27 2024 76 mins
Lindsey begins her motherhood journey with the experience of an ectopic pregnancy, which she - amazingly - resolved without taking medication or having surgery.
Despite her being told by medical professionals that it would hard for her to conceive again, she did, easily. Her first baby was born in a hospital, and this experience left her knowing that she would never give birth in a hospital again.
Her next baby was born at home, with a midwife.
Lindsey then began working as a midwife apprentice and quickly realized she was seeing many of the same interventions, interruptions, and violations at homebirths as happens in hospitals. She realized she wouldn’t want any of the midwives she was working with at her own birth. They were effectively bringing the hospital into the home.
Around this time, Lindsey’s third baby, in spirit form, was calling to her, but she knew she had to leave her apprenticeship to be in integrity with herself before this baby would come. She left the medical midwifery world and instead began supporting freebirths, and it was here she learned to trust birth again.
Her third baby was born at home with just her family present. It was just a normal Wednesday afternoon, except she gave birth in her bathtub! The mundane and sacred, intertwined.
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Intro / Outro music: Dreams by Markvard