King's College London

Funding Information: The authors would like to thank the women who shared their freebirthing stories, AIMS for supporting the project and the Economic and Social Research Council for funding it. We would also like to thank Teresa Arias for providing helpful comments on earlier drafts of the manuscript. Funding Information: Interviewees were aware that the project was supported by the national charity AIMS (Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services). Participants were also informed that the first author is not a health care professional and is a volunteer at the organisation. This role reflects her academic background in law, human rights and ethics. It includes producing a range of written literature for the charity in addition to supporting women via the AIMS helpline to navigate the maternity system. The second author is a midwifery academic who used the Voice Centred Relational Method for her own PhD study. Her original midwifery education and clinical practice were mostly based in a Consultant Obstetric Unit in which the biomedical model was the norm. Funding Information: This research was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council grant number: ES/P000703/1. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Copyright: Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.