FBS, which promotes an extreme version of free birth in which women abandon any form of prenatal care and give birth without doctors or midwives present, is estimated to have generated more than $13m in revenues since 2018. A recent Guardian investigation identified 48 cases of late-term stillbirths or neonatal deaths or other forms of serious harm involving mothers or birth attendants who appear to be linked to FBS.
(Yolande) Norris-Clark has not responded to repeated requests for comment about the Guardian’s investigation, which is told through The Birth Keepers podcast series. She has previously defended her partnership with Saldaya, saying FBS is “the most ethical kind of business you can run”. Critics of FBS, she has said, fail to understand the commitment to women taking “radical responsibility” for their births. And she has said it is unfair to hold her responsible for the choices of a mother who consumes her content.
Many of the women who follow Norris-Clark on social media, seeking advice in their pregnancies, are unaware of her more extreme views, which she sometimes revealed to FBS students. “I actually don’t believe that gravity is true,” she told FBS students in 2024, adding: “Maybe that just makes me crazy and that’s totally OK.” In another class, she told students they could cut a baby’s umbilical cord with an “old rusty fork”. “I don’t believe in germ theory,” she said, “I don’t believe in contagion,” adding: “But even if contagion were real … there would be a pretty much 0% chance of anything happening.”
Bringing back “dying in childbirth” at the ripe old age of 24.
“I don’t believe in germ theory,” she said, “I don’t believe in contagion,”
Ah, yes, I agree. It’s definitely the four humors that actually cause disease. “Covid-19” is just caused by a build up of phlegm. I just haven’t figured out why the build up of phlegm spreads from person to person… hmmm.
It’s miasmas.
This actually. Down here in the US, RFK has literally admitted in a book that he doesn’t think germ theory is real, and that he basically believes in miasma. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if that’s migrated other places.
Also, gravity isn’t real, everything is just weirdly sticky. Even at very long distances.
The anti-medicine/anti-vax/anti-professional intervention crowd need to get in the fucking bin
They are working on that.
Frustratingly they seem to be working on getting other people in the bin.
They made $13,000,000 without the use of any medicine, medical supplies, doctors, or training apparently… that’s insane.
This is so interesting to me. I had a theory that a lot of the free birth movement stemmed from the financial barriers to medically supported birth in the US, and wanting to reclaim some kind of control. If it’s their choice to not seek medical care it’s empowering- if they can’t afford it, they are disenfranchised. In a nation of “temporarily embarrassed millionaires” nobody wants to admit they are too poor for healthcare. Being able to curate an image on social media of how this is the “better” option- even if they convince themselves to genuinely believe it!- let’s them keep self esteem.
Canada doesn’t have the same financial barriers but we are so steeped in American media that I’m not surprised it’s caught on here.
What I am surprised about is how are they making money??? What are you selling??
how are they making money??? What are you selling??
Keyword: “social media”
It’s almost like it’s coincidentally at the center of every modern grift out there.
My daughter would have died were it not for CHEO.
These idiots can fuck all the way off straight to hell.
Yet another example of the bubble-wrapped child-safe world allowing evolutionary dead-ends to survive to procreate.
Read some history hoss. There were plenty of morons when child mortality was high.
Yeah that comment took a surprisingly dark turn. I expected it to be something about survivorship bias leading people to do more stupid shit because they’ve been so protected they haven’t had to face danger, but like…“oh see what happens when we don’t kill off those people”?? Wtf how do you get there
Read some history hoss.
I did not have Bonanza on my 2025 Bingo card. 🐎
No, you can fuck right off with that moronic social darwinism.
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