“I spent months undercover in freebirthing communities – this is what I learned from the women choosing to birth alone”

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“I spent months undercover in freebirthing communities – this is what I learned from the women choosing to birth alone”

By Celia Silvani

Updated 2 months ago

7 min read

When writer Celia Silvani came across the devastating story of a woman whose freebirthing experience ended in tragedy, she decided to join the online communities facilitating women’s desires to pursue intervention-free pregnancies and births to find out why anyone would choose such a high-risk option. What she found, she says, was “both radical and magnetic”. 


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