🌀 Talk Description

As more families around the world choose to freebirth their babies, how do those of us who serve birth feel about this growing movement? In this honest and spacious session, Deborah Faye (Debs) Rhodes invites birthworkers to explore their personal responses to freebirth — what it means to them, how it touches their own lives, and how it sits within their beliefs and practice.

Together, we will reflect on the experiences that have shaped our understanding of freebirth, including the families we have supported, the stories that have influenced us, and the inner questions this path brings forward. This is an opportunity to listen deeply, share openly, and expand our perspectives as we consider how autonomy, safety, intuition, and relationship flow through this birthing choice.

This gathering offers space for curiosity rather than judgement — a place to explore how we, as birthworkers, can hold ourselves, one another, and the families we serve in truth, compassion, and respect.

👤 Speaker Bio

Deborah Faye (Debs) Rhodes is a holistic independent homebirth midwife based in Spain and working internationally. She also teaches and serves as an administrator at Da-a-Luz Partera Escuela.

With over 25 years of experience — including 15 years in the UK homebirth world and 4 years in the National Health Service — Debs brings deep skill, grounded presence, and an unwavering commitment to women’s right to choose the type of birth they want. She is especially passionate about supporting physiological birth for breech babies, twins, and VBAC.

A dedicated advocate for authentic, traditional midwifery, Debs works to preserve ancient midwifery wisdom and to hold space for families throughout the full childbearing year. She offers workshops across Europe on breech and twin birth, authentic practice, freebirth and birthkeepers, reclaiming midwifery from medicalisation, and facing challenges holistically.

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