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‘She was like a deer in headlights': how unskilled radical birthkeepers took hold in Canada

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By Sirin Kale , Lucy Osborne 
| MSN UK
When the holistic practitioner Emma Cardinal, 32, became pregnant in May 2023, she planned to have a home birth with midwives. Cardinal lives in a town in British Columbia with strong counter-cultural roots. “The community that I live in, home birth is something a lot of women prioritise,” she explains. Then Cardinal stumbled across a podcast from the Free Birth Society (FBS).
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‘She was like a deer in headlights’: how unskilled radical birthkeepers took hold in Canada

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By Sirin Kale , Lucy Osborne 
| Yahoo Canada
When the holistic practitioner Emma Cardinal, 32, became pregnant in May 2023, she planned to have a home birth with midwives. Cardinal lives in a town in British Columbia with strong counter-cultural roots. “The community that I live in, home birth is something a lot of women prioritise,” she explains. Then Cardinal stumbled across a podcast from the Free Birth Society (FBS).
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‘There's no longer a heartbeat': the couple whose twins were stillborn – and the ‘birth keeper' they blame

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By Sirin Kale , Lucy Osborne 
| MSN UK
Ernesta Chirwa recalls the jarring moment the woman she presumed was her midwife said something unexpected. Caitlyn Collins was driving her to hospital after 6am, on 15 February 2022. “She said,” says Chirwa, who is 30 and lives in Cape Town, “Please don't mention to the nurses that we were trying to have a home birth.” Chirwa was in too much pain to speak – she was in active labour. But she remembers feeling surprised.
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