"Over a weekend in late June 2024, Emilee Saldaya, the leader of the Free Birth Society, hosted a festival on her 21-hectare (53-acre) property in North Carolina. It was a celebratory gathering for FBS, a multimillion-dollar business that promotes a radical approach to giving birth without medical support. Promotional footage from the Matriarch Rising festival shows Saldaya dancing beside her private lake, wearing a crown."
"That same weekend, more than 3,000 miles away, in Dundalk, a town on the east coast of Ireland, Naomi James, bled to death after freebirthing her son. Naomi James. Photograph: Courtesy of Naomi James's family It is impossible to say with any certainty whether James would have survived if a midwife or doctor had been present. Neither is it possible to know exactly how influential FBS was on James's decision-making, although she appears to have been scarred by bad experiences with maternity services."
Emilee Saldaya hosted a Matriarch Rising festival on her 21-hectare North Carolina property, celebrating the Free Birth Society (FBS), a multimillion-dollar organization that promotes unassisted births. Promotional footage shows Saldaya dancing beside a private lake wearing a crown. In Dundalk, Ireland, 38-year-old Naomi James bled to death after freebirthing her son. James's pregnancy was high risk because of two previous caesarean sections. Her social media activity shows engagement with FBS-related content and a doula’s recommendation of an FBS podcast episode about haemorrhage. Saldaya asserted she had never seen haemorrhage in a free birth. It is unknown whether medical attendance would have changed James's outcome.
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