My FREE BIRTH experience | Natural Birth Story

Answering some questions about my free birth experience with Folasade Sage. I had so many question and didn't get to answer them all. There's so much to talk about and I still have so much more to say but I do hope that this video can offer some helpful insight into birthing at home.
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[@emilyburns5365]

I free birthed for my first birth. Best experience of my life 💖

[@billynou]

Oh my goodness how special 💗💗💗💗

[@kikiriki466]

Im so jealous,i chickened out and went to hospital...they made it so so much hsrder for me. Hoping for a do-over❤

[@FrecklesLimon]

Awww that’s amazing I’m going to be doing this in a month also with my first baby . I’m 36 weeks currently ☺️

[@xenmountainfamily]

I’m 38 weeks pregnant now and have been preparing for a freebirth from my home in the Thai mountains. Thank you for sharing your story and becoming a resource of empowerment for mine 🙏💗

[@billynou]

Ohhh amazing. How incredible to be in the Thai mountains 🏔 💗💗💗

[@FrecklesLimon]

How did it go? I’m having my first baby and free birthing in a month

[@anarchist_parable]

So much of why British and especially us American women get hurt during birth is because we are raised that birth is a medical process. So much fear and this cultural perception that we aren't strong enough to do it.

[@billynou]

I hear ya 😕

[@Vc-ot1bt]

Thank you for sharing in such a calm, honest and balanced way. Just listening to your experience has softened the traumas of my 4 births. Hospital births are not just risky at times for mums, but oh boy the rough way babies are handled straight after birth is heartbreaking.

[@billynou]

Wow you are amazing. 4 babies! How lucky they are to have you as a mama. It IS so heartbreaking for the mums and babies who have to endure this torture. I hope you can find peace with it all and I’m honoured that my perspective helped soften something for you 💗

[@Samectoplasm]

Beautiful and insightful video. I have never wanted to give birth and now i realize it's also because of the stress of the hospital and how birth is portrayed in the mainstream as a terrible event and disempowering position for a woman. You changed my view. Congratulations for your 2 beautiful child :)

[@billynou]

I’m so pleased you found a different view point through this video.... It really is such an incredible experience ❤️

[@jessicafahey7346]

Shedding a few tears watching the last few moments with Billy. What an amazing experience for her, too. I've never watched anything that frames birth in this way, thank you for sharing this video. I am enlightened and inspired to continue learning about the birthing experience for my future.

[@billynou]

This fills me right up! Thanks for watching and being open to a different way of framing birth. Billy filmed so much of the birth on her camera and managed to delete it all except this clip,🤦🏽‍♀️ but it’s a great clip ! She takes after her papa ❤️❤️

[@maryamnelson8063]

Yes to “not taking from other peoples views about birth *when they haven’t done the work*”!! I appreciate all of your insights and reflections! Thanks for sharing ❤

[@billynou]

Thank you so much for commenting and watching 💗

[@josephine6733]

This was so interesting and I’m so happy I watched this. Thank you, thank you, thank you for bringing a more positive narrative. The teacher and the healer really resonated.

[@billynou]

Thank you for watching and for commenting. I’m really glad you found it interesting ♥️♥️♥️

[@helenmorley9896]

Incredibly beautiful! Thank you for sharing your experience! also you have such a calming, accepting and generous energy to you, it comes across even through the screen of a laptop x all the best to you and your family.

[@billynou]

Oh wow thank you 💕

[@MegLaper]

39 weeks today love hearing positive birth stories

[@billynou]

💗💗💗💗💗💗

[@kikiriki466]

Best of luck with yours ❤

[@brooketeague4985]

Birthing undisturbed is worlds different from my other births. Thanks for sharing so others can know that it is possible to have a normal birth!

[@billynou]

Thank you for watching ♥️

[@autumnbailey5503]

I really appreciate the filming. I know this has nothing to do with it, but it was such a glimpse of who you are and helped me sit in the emotions of this video. Thanks so much and congrats mama

[@billynou]

Awww thank you …. That’s my talented babe’s papa / birth keepers work 😉 🧡🧡🧡

[@mantralife6620]

Congratulations! Beautiful family and beautiful videos. Thank you so much ☮️🙏💗

[@billynou]

Thank you ☺️❤️❤️

[@delphinetessier]

Thank you for sharing the Sade’s birth. This was so beautiful and powerful. ❤️

[@billynou]

Thank you for watching ❤️

[@jenm4721]

Congrats your baby is so adorable and healthy! I had both my babies at home and got to choose who was there and how it happened. It was a wonderful empowering experience and I admire you for taking your birth of your baby into your hands! Thank you for sharing, I agree that there needs to be more positive stories out there.

[@billynou]

I’m so glad you had your empowering experiences 💪🏽 so awesome. Thank you so much ❤️

[@bv7924]

Thank you so much for sharing the beauty of birth. This was so lovely. Blessings to you and your family.

[@billynou]

Thank you ☺️ blessings to you too

[@jennyhughes6597]

Congratulations.....and she is the most beautiful baby! And she is precious in her little eco dyed onsie

[@billynou]

Thank you ❤️

[@manuelajimenez6271]

She is absolutely beautiful. Thank you for sharing this. I have always said I don't want to have children, but I know deep down I do, I am just fearful. Seeing your experience and hearing your thoughts has helped me alot. Thank you!! xx

[@billynou]

I’m so glad it gave you something to think about 🥰

[@kikiriki466]

I was very afraid of it,turned out no reason to,worst part was hospital staff

[@leannehaynes9192]

Ahhh this is so beautiful, you’re such a goddess with your beautiful family!!! Xxxx

[@billynou]

Thanks babe ... ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@charlotte7973]

Thank you so much for sharing! Sending so much love to you and your family. :)

[@billynou]

🥰🥰

[@Satsusss]

Thank you so much for this amazing video and sharing your life experiences with us. What a beautiful way to look at the birthing experience. I have been petrified of having children for the very reason of having to give birth the conventional way in hospital. This kind of birth is the only way I will ever have children, it's so reassuring to know that birth can be a positive experience.

[@billynou]

It totally can! And should be for all involved... thanks for your comment, I’m glad you found it interesting 💜

[@nicikucapaca]

Thank you mama for sharing, empowering and inspiration 😊🧡

[@billynou]

Thanks for watching ☺️

[@lian2726]

Thank you for sharing. Very beautiful to watch all of you and very inspiring.

[@billynou]

❤️ thanks for watching ❤️

[@martamariamroz8438]

Thank you for sharing ! Many dear greetings and much love for you and your family!

[@billynou]

Thanks 🙏🏾

[@LeylaGulerPhoto]

Aww thank you so much for sharing your positive birth story. I loved what you said about the first being the teacher and the second being a healer this really hit home for me as I can relate to that in my birth experience too xx

[@billynou]

I think about this all the time 🥰

[@alteredcarbon3500]

You are a strong woman, I admire you and I have to admit I'm a bit jealous on your free birth experience 😊 When I decided to get pregnant I've learned that I have ovarian cancer . Maybe in another life 🏵️☘️🌻

[@billynou]

Oh love that is tough news… Im very sorry to hear that…. Don’t be jealous and try not to give up on your hopes and dreams … I’m praying for you 💕

[@natalieneck9785]

Thank you for sharing your amazing story! I am due to give birth in late October with my first baby. I am planning a homebirth/freebirth & doing exactly what you recommend… researching & mentally preparing 🙏 sending my love & well wishes x

[@billynou]

Oh my goodness…. I imagine you are very excited 😆 it’s just so so intensely awesome. Wishing you all the best for you and your babies birth ❤️

[@alessandrafois8727]

This is beautiful, thanks for sharing.

[@billynou]

Thanks for watching 🤍

[@mariejeannewurrer7212]

The baby looks so peaceful. Many chances are taking place for a new world .

[@billynou]

🌎🌏🌍

[@sarahp3676]

This was lovely. Your videos are always so emotional to me, they're raw and honest. Giving birth is the most natural thing a woman can do and I admire women like you who regard it so sacredly. Also, I must say, your partner did an exquisite job with this video. He has such a beautiful eye for capturing the light and the expression of your hands. It made it all that much more beautiful. Enjoy this time with your sweet baby and family. xo

[@billynou]

Haha I’ll tell him.... It’s nice when people give him some appreciation 🥰

[@missjulieannmusic]

Incredible, thank you for sharing ❤️❤️

[@billynou]

Thank you for watching ❤️

[@ellestein1386]

Naissance d'une petite fée ✨thank you so much for sharing merveilleux moments...

[@billynou]

Merci 🤍🤍

[@kavitajilkar8784]

Congratulations...and wish your fam good luck.

[@billynou]

Thank you 😊

[@MerryweatherKnitting]

Thank you so much for sharing your incredible, profoundly natural and peaceful story. I watched this video a couple of months ago for the first time and returned today to listen again. I am expecting my second baby girl in July and am so comforted and inspired by your positive free birth, it makes me so excited to enter into that birth process as well. Hearing the description of the first baby being "the teacher" and the second being "the healer" is so powerful. What a gift it is to experience motherhood and birth with this framework. Sending major love to you and your precious family ❤❤❤

[@billynou]

Oh thank you for your lovely comment... I’m so glad it’s a meaningful video for you... I’m a pretty open person and don’t mind people knowing all my business but I do have the feeling sometimes that maybe this is an over share as it’s such a personal experience but knowing that it is helpful/ inspiring to other women makes it all feel right ....❤️❤️❤️

[@FoxRogers]

Thank you for sharing. With my 2nd child I could only visualize them with the cord around thr neck too, which it was, 3 times. They just unwound it and baby was totally okay. But I too just KNEW that was the case somehow. Always listen to your intuition 🥰💗

[@billynou]

Knowing without knowing.... so amazing.... thank you for sharing 🥰

[@chaiforrest6628]

thank you so much for sharing!!!!

[@billynou]

Thanks for watching ☺️

[@mathildesiegumfeldt1067]

love this

[@billynou]

☺️

[@Marie-bo6by]

Hey dear, thanks for the utter beauty you create 🌅 I wonder whether you could share some of the positive birth material/channels that inspire you. I love your raw hearty aesthetics and intuition based openness. Would be wonderful find even more yin inspiring content like yours. Warm spring wishes from me, a Doula in Germany. Much Love 🧡 Marie

[@billynou]

Hello. Thank you so much for your lovely comment. I can’t remember exactly what resources I mentioned In the video now but the freebirth society podcast was a big one and then lots of birth content on Instagram…. If you send me a message on Instagram I’d be happy to share some of those profiles with you. My feed was just full of natural births as that was all I was watching and the algorithm did it’s job I guess 😆

[@Marie-bo6by]

​@@billynou Thank you a lot for your answer 🌼 I don't have instagram, so I guess your kind offer is not really viable. But thank you, I will continue exploring the free birth society.. and Pinterest inspiration and offline books. Enjoy your week. Much love, Marie

[@bettyrubble]

Thank you for this ❤️

[@billynou]

💗

[@susier8549]

This is so lovely. I really enjoyed watching with my 13yo daughter and am so glad she gets to absorb your energy and wisdom around physiological birth.

[@billynou]

So honoured you watched it with your daughter ☺️ I think I’ll have to do a video for these onesies... but to keep you going, I used pin cushion flowers, correopsis flowers, marigolds, onion skins and some cochineal and the onesies were mordanted with alum acetate 😊💕

[@helenachatterji9840]

Thank you for sharing ❤

[@billynou]

Thanks for watching 🤍💗

[@madaralazda8398]

thank you for sharing! I had an awful experience first time around and I’m researching free birth and learning about physiological birth to be able to do it at home unassisted.

[@billynou]

I’m very glad it was of some value to you. And I’m so sorry you had to experience something so difficult. ♥️♥️

[@kikiriki466]

Same! I hope it went well for you❤

[@pheart2381]

You know its just occured to me Ive heard lots of horror stories about hospital births,but Ive never heard a horror home birth story!

[@billynou]

It’s interesting isn’t it? But people do tend to focus on that one bad story they heard about a home birth rather than all the insane stuff that happens in hospitals 🤷🏽‍♀️ ❤️❤️

[@Yapah1]

Thank you for sharing. Your courage has inspired me to free birth my fourth baby,but I'm curious about prenatal visits. Would you recommend continuing prenatal visits?

[@billynou]

Hi love. 4th oh woweeeee you have a real tribe! I personally didn’t continue but I think you should see how you feel. Maybe you will want to and maybe you won’t 💗

[@Yapah1]

Thank you so much ❤

[@HanneBonte]

Wonderful video and info. Thank you for this! 🙏 I know I'm not on time anymore for this question being answered in the video, but I hope you can still answer it. Did you experience any difficulties with registering your baby? I don't know how 'the system' works in France, but in Belgium (where I live) a Medical Birth Certificate is needed when registering a newborn. This certificate can only be given by a doctor or licensed midwife. So I'm wondering how official instances here would handle a free birth without certificate and curious how it went in France.

[@billynou]

Hello ☺️ thank you for watching. We didn’t have any problems with registering but I have heard of horror stories. It’s not illegal so there shouldn’t be problems. I’m wondering if you could find someone in Belgium who has done it? What do they do In cases where the baby is born to fast for anyone to get there in time?

[@billynou]

Also we just went to our local council to register the birth and get the birth certificate….. 🤔 Maybe you could ask a midwife to come after the birth to verify the things that need verifying ? 😊

[@ssbarbellbeauty4257]

I'm having all those no no instincts with the hospital this birth, this birth will be my 3rd and was suddenly the plan because they let my midwife go and she's the only doc I trust

[@billynou]

So important to have the people you trust around you.... I hope you manage to navigate all the obstacles and have a beautiful birth ♥️

[@ssbarbellbeauty4257]

@@billynou thank you I hope so as well 🙏❤️

[@pheart2381]

Gorgeous little human! I think the NHS sadly treat expectant mothers like idiots,like vessels without opinions or instincts. You must do this,you mustnt do that,your baby doesnt weigh enough,you arnt trying etc etc. Very artificial and clinical. I love how Billy is interacting with the new arrival!!

[@billynou]

❤️

[@rossisbudda]

Come on cuz. You know the score

[@billynou]

❤️

[@tamarazrim5881]

Thank you for sharing your story with open heart. My first birth was traumatic for me, for sure a big teacher to do different this time. I am due in March. Would like to ask you for Instagram accounts you liked and followed, and where i could find meditation you mentioned in video. I am going this time with midwife/friend, just for a back up... will try to do free birth. Thank you

[@billynou]

Hey love. Thank you for your comment. I’m so sorry that you have experienced a traumatic birth, it is so heart breaking to me. I absolutely do believe that birth can be so so healing and I really hope you get to experience this second time round, however you choose to do it ☺️ I really love the freebirth society podcast… the stories are so fascinating and it’s great to hear how wide and varied the experience of birth can be. I also like people like @kemibirthjoyjhonson kzbin.info/www/bejne/qnm5dmh9p7xoftk This is the link for the pregnancy yoga nidra I used a lot, it’s by Ally Boothroyd, she has SO much free stuff on KZbin and I love it all 😆 Take lots of care of yourself 💗💗💗

[@danieltran8560]

Congrats! I have a 7 month best thing to ever happen to me. Question I wanted to make her a few dyed onesies how did you make the one seen at .21 sec? Best of luck with parent hood! #teamnosleep

[@billynou]

Thank you. best thing to ever happen to me too 😆 I used a technique called bundle dyeing and I used flowers and a dye called cochineal which is from a tiny bug... I have a couple of ebooks available that might help you with the process if you’d like to learn but it’s really very simple... bundling up flowers in fabric and steaming them to get the colour out. But you do need to make sure you mordant your fibers properly before dyeing ❤️

[@ianbell2288]

You're a good woman, but it seems, an even better mother. You seem fuelled, by the desire to do 'The right thing', in every aspect of your life. Never ignore this, it's the best way, and your gift from God. The whole world is a lie, and you have the tools to get you through the fog. I can see from your beautiful child's eyes, you did not take the needle recently, regardless of the social pressure. Well done you, I'm very proud of you. Abandon all 'new age', although I suspect you may know this already.

[@billynou]

Thank you.... I didn’t realise how much I needed babies to teach me all the things they teach me. I love being a mum so much and, like most mums, I can’t imagine life without them ❤️🤍

[@locomademoiselle]

Congratulations & thank you for sharing your story - I'm so glad you felt empowered and safe and all went smoothly! She is beautiful :) However, I feel that for myself and other people who can't birth at home for medical reasons that some things that were said about hospitals (as well as your comments in response to the troll), could cause us to become further worried...yet it's our only option.xxx

[@billynou]

My feelings are that if I had to go to hospital then I would absolutely accept that but I would make sure I felt very informed, confident and surrounded myself with people I trust and would respect my wishes. My intentions aren’t to worry or shame people ...and of course my perspective is going to be very different to a lot of people’s, as it is so incredibly personal. I just WISH so much that women who choose hospital birth or have no other option, like your self, could trust that they would absolutely be respected and honoured by their providers. Thank you for your comment ... I really do appreciate it, I could talk for hours about all this, there is so much to say... nothing is right or wrong.... except for respecting the birthing woman and baby. In my opinion anyway ☺️

[@locomademoiselle]

@@billynou absolutely, respect & agree xx

[@templeofeternallight]

this is a really beautiful video i just hope you don't have birds in cages. free life all i hear is birds in cages in the background

[@SK-ut6tw]

I'll never understand risking your child's life in this way. A pregnant woman is low risk until she isn't.

[@billynou]

Interesting you see it this way as I know, under my personal circumstances, it to be the exact and complete opposite

[@SK-ut6tw]

@@billynou Well, anything at anytime could go wrong in labor an delivery. The baby could get stuck last minute, turn and flip furthering the need for a c section. The cord could be wrapped around the child's neck cutting off blood supply, labor could stall, post partum hemorage, fail to clear baby's lungs resulting in death. A pregnant woman is low risk until she isn't. I have seen far too many carless mother's put their children at risk for narcissism. If you risk you child's life in this way. You're not a mother.

[@billynou]

It’s not my job to educate you on how physiological birth works. All this can happen and is more statistically likely to happen in a hospital or anywhere a birthing woman feels observed or unsafe. I don’t expect you watched or listened to the video the whole way through or with an open mind but thanks for your input and so clearly highlighting the issues with fear and ignorance around birth and for the very clear disrespect you are willing to project onto another woman you have never met on line. I honestly wish you well.

[@SK-ut6tw]

@@billynou Nonsense, absolutely rubbish. You rather have no medical intervention or a dead baby? Do you realize that the maternal and infant death rate is high because mother's who have unassisted homebirth wait until something goes terribly wrong and then is admitted to hospital? That counts as a hospital death when actually it's a home birth death. 1 in 7 to 8 women before the 1920s used to die in childbirth. Natural sure, but it certainly isn't safe. You're not going to convince me what you did was selfless and empowering. Stillborn babies or dying babies aren't beautiful. It's an avoidable tragedy.

[@granderuestudio889]

@@SK-ut6tw In fact, before the 1920s women were dying at staggering rates in hospitals shortly after giving birth from "childbed fever"... The cause? Doctors unwashed hands.