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Welcome to The Unmedicated Girlies, the podcast for moms who want to be informed, empowered, and educated for birth and beyond. We know that an empowered birth leads to an empowered motherhood, and we know that it takes going against the status quo to get there. We are standing up for our values and we are doing it unapologetically.
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There are many reasons women choose unmedicated birth. One of those reasons is that they feel more in control when they support physiology. And feeling more in control, instead of chaotic, results in a more positive birth experience.
In this episode, I discuss:
How supporting physiology puts your body in control, not the hospital routine, not prescription drugs, and that can help you feel more in charge of your birth.
You have more options in your birth when you stick with your unmedicated birth plan.
When you walk into birth prepared, there is less anxiety, less fear, we can take control of our births now by doing the right birth prep.
Full immersion into your birth prep can get you so prepared that you know what to do automatically when things like interventions, slow labor, transition, etc. come up
The ONE thing I wish someone had told me when I was pregnant with my first. Here I am telling it to you if you haven't heard me say it already.
In this episode I discuss:
The 7Bs of attachment parenting and the intuitive way to parent your baby.
In 2013, I read food blogs when I should have been finding the home birth corner on the web.
The gaps in our prenatal care, specifically the lack of options and informed consent that come with the typical hospital prenatal.
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When Juliana prepared for her first birth she did it all, including hiring a doula. What she wasn't prepared for was her doula being denied access to the hospital with COVID policy changes in 2021. Even with a successful unmedicated birth with her first, she knew she could do birth even better and with her second pregnancy, she decided to prepare her husband to be her doula. Juliana's birth story starts with a spontaneous trip to the tattoo shop, Easter service at Church on Sunday morning, to catching her own baby (yes in the hospital!) on April Fool's Day.
Get empowered and prepared with Juliana and the other unmedicated girlies inside Unmedicated Academy.
Did you hear that they took the BVO out of the orange drink, aka glucola?!! That’s great, but we’re still going to ask for an alternative, and here’s why…
In this episode, you’ll learn:
The 2 main reasons why women are declining glucola for their gestational diabetes screening.
What a provider might say to you when you ask for alternatives to the glucose tolerance test
How a GD diagnosis follows you through your pregnancy and can affect your birth plan
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You need to fit in your birth prep, you want to be an informed unmedicated girlie, but you don’t have the time and just getting started is overwhelming. Get ready to go all in because today we are talking about three ways to get started (or go deeper into your birth education) without overwhelm.
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This is a must listen birth story! Academy mom Grace was due on Christmas day with baby 2 and was pressured to induce many times in her prenatal care. This drove her to practice her new advocacy skills, prepare her husband, and take assessing her risk into her own hands. She shares the differences between her first and second birth and how she was able to have a more empowered birth by taking her prep into her own hands.
Take Grace’s advice and let’s work together!
You had your amazing unbelievable birth experience. Maybe it was at home maybe it was in the car maybe it was in the hospital. It doesn’t matter where. It was truly the most amazing transformative experience you’ve ever had. You're not ready to give birth again, but you're not ready to leave this birth bubble... here is the quickest (and easiest) way to start a birth business from home with your baby.
In this episode, I discuss...
Being a type A girlie and owning it. Why you should plan out your month and quarter today.
Why I see my 75 Hard "failure" as a win and how it makes me mentally tough.
Becoming an Academy Ambassador and how you can help more moms have better births and change the world.
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Learn more about the Ambassador Program, then send me a DM @fiercelizzie
Here is why you need to start your birth prep now instead of waiting til next month. Four reasons to get a head start on your birth education for all moms, but especially for November, December and January moms because of the higher rate of inductions around the holidays.
In this episode you'll learn...
The time frame it takes to get truly informed to have a boss birth your way and why that is necessary in the hospital setting.
How your prenatal care can change in the final weeks compared to the early weeks of pregnancy where you hear "everything looks perfect, mama!"
How to be prepared for the holiday induction.
Join the other December moms and get educated, informed, and empowered to do birth your way.
"First time mom here! What are the most surprising parts of an unmedicated birth?" From butt explosions to cervical checks gone wrong to the most amazing feeling EVER that makes natural birth addicting (and why we all keep coming back to it)... this episode has it all!
Everything you need to know about unmedicated hospital birth
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Hundreds of women have used the boss birth method to have the unmedicated birth of their dreams. First time moms, second time moms, even fifth time moms!! YOu can have a powerful birth where you feel prepared, informed, and empowered to birth YOUR WAY even in the hospital. And here are the four things you need to know to get your dream birth too.
You’ll learn…
The most challenging part of having an unmedicated hospital birth and how the level of support can vary greatly from hospital to hospital.
How the basic birth prep is not enough for the typical hospital birth mom, and my story of getting lucky with my first birth.
Skip the trial and error of birth and instead prepare for your next birth to be the best it can be.
The four steps to having a boss birth, exactly what you need to know and prepare to have an unmedicated hospital birth
In my experience hospital staff tend to be more supporting of a natural, hands off birth in the first stage of labor. They may still push for pitocin or cervical checks, but they still tend to leave you to labor on your own. And all that changes once a mom hits transition or starts to feel pushy, then even the most hans off birth may turn intervention heavy.
You'll learn:
What it means to support physiology and how walking into the hospital disrupts natural labor.
The stages of labor and the difference between interventions from beginning to end.
The three things you must know to support physiology at any stage or birth.
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Look it's not you, it's the hospital. The hospital routine medicalizes your birth and makes it really hard to support physiology. Which means it's really hard to have an unmedicated birth in the hospital. And the epidural rate proves it. The good news is, there is a way to have a hospital birth where you support physiology and you avoid unnecessary interventions.
You'll learn:
What really happens when you go with the flow is that you hand your birth over to the hospital's routine which usually includes an induction, pitocin, epidural, amniotomy, coached pushing, etc.
How the hospital birth looks like birth because you meet your baby, but in reality it is not a physiologic birth at all.
Statistics on inductions and statistics when you avoid an induction too.
How birth education can improve birth for first time moms, second time moms, hospital birth moms, and moms with a doula.
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Your baby & body want an unmedicated birth, even if you are scared, even if you have a low pain tolerance, even if you aren’t having a peaceful water birth in your living room. And that's because there are a ton of benefits that come with physiologic, unmedicated birth.
You'll learn...
How a recent client ended up with an unmedicated birth even though that wasn't her goal, and no her birth wasn't fast or easy.
The cascade of interventions vs the overflow of positive outcomes and how unmedicated birth has benefits to you and your baby.
The reason so many moms chose natural birth over and over again, even though it's the hardest thing they have ever done.
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Today's episode is inspired by the fact that I have had too many mom in my DMs concerned about their low lying placentas. A low lying placenta is totally normal at 20 weeks, so why are so many women worrying about it??
In this episode, I discuss:
The difference between a low lying placenta and placenta previa, and what it means for your birth prep.
The overuse of technology causing doubt in our pregnancies.
How our maternity care system infantilizes women by giving us minimal information and making decisions for women instead of giving them options.
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Margot Robbie is pregnant. Will she invest in getting informed? Will she hired a doula? Will she invest in a physiologic birth at home? Celebrities have all the resources available to them, and very often they are opting for the most detached version of birth, elective cesarean or even worse, surrogacy. Join me in this rabbit hole of celebrity hospital births.
In this episode I discuss:
How Queen Elizabeth had her power taken away during her first three births and how she demanded different for her fourth.
The hospital is the hospital and it can and will take control if you let it, regardless of how rich, famous, and powerful a woman is outside of the hospital.
The average rate of cesarean in the United States in 2022 is 32.1% and the World Health Organization’s statement that cesarean rates over 20% lead to worse outcomes for moms and babies.
Los Angeles hospital, Cedars-Sinai Hospital, does not disclose their rate of cesarean and that is likely due to a higher than average rate.
What it costs for a bougie maternity suite at Cedars-Sinai, Lenox Hill, and Mount Sinai. And did Beyonce really rent out the maternity ward for $1.3 million??
Let's get informed on postpartum hemorrhage, so you can make the best decision in the third stage of your birth. Bleeding is a completely normal part of the birth process, but how much is too much?? Hospital providers are terrified of PPH and are treating every single woman preventatively, even when she just had a physiologic birth and there is no reason to assume this stage of birth needs help as well.
In this episode I discuss:
The current definition of PPH versus the older definition that labels a normal amount of blood loss as concerning.
How PPH is assessed and what can cause a hemorrhage in postpartum.
If you birth in the hospital, you will have PPH actively managed. Know the difference between active vs expectant management.
All of your options and how to avoid PPH
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Allow yourself to get obsessed with your birth. Go all in. Instead of hoping for an unmedicated birth, be committed to having your best birth. Going all in with your birth education can only help you to be more confident and more prepared for walking into the hospital to birth your way.
In this episode I discuss:
Many hospital birth moms have births that don’t go as planned. The typical birth outcomes IS a birth that doesn’t go to plan so if you want to plan for something different, you have to do things differently.
The difference between hoping for an unmedicated birth and being committed to an unmedicated birth. And how you can become obsessed with birth to have a more positive birth experience.
If you want a different hospital birth, you are going to have to tell someone no. To do birth differently you are going to have to inconvenience someone at best and piss them off at worst.
Get obsessed with doing birth your way inside Unmedicated Academy.
Have you experienced the Bobbie formula shortage? This mom-founded and-led infant formula company appears to be pro mother-baby, when in fact all they are good at is marketing and making profits off of how you feed your baby. They are a multi million dollar corporation that has used predatory marketing tactics to grow a "cult like" following that has created more demand then they can keep up with.
In this episode, I discuss:
The new age predatory Marketing tactics that Bobbie formula has pioneered and abused to get moms hooked on their product.
Bobbie falsely claims that their organic formula is a solution to mothers' mental health struggles, and now these moms are more stressed than ever as they struggle to feed their babies.
The new push towards combo-feeding that enables Bobbie to gain more customers as they directly compete with breastfeeding.
One mom's story in choosing Bobbie, what she did during the shortage to feed her baby, and how Bobbie responded to her outrage.
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How are cervical checks going to affect my labor? I know something as small and simple as a cervical exam doesn’t seem like much of an interruption to the labor process, but it actually is. When we introduce pain, tension, or fear into labor it can cause labor to stall and make it harder for you to access your coping tools. And let’s flip the script, I actually would love for you to think of cervical exams as small and insignificant in actually helping labor, because there are truly no benefits to including multiple cervical checks in birth.
In this episode I discuss:
A risk and benefit analysis of using cervical checks in labor so you can make an informed choice on if you want to include them in your birth or not.
In home births we don’t typically see cervical exams unless the mother requests them, and how requesting a cervical exam shows some doubt in your body’s ability to birth.
The story of a mom who dilated from 2 to 10 cm in an hour and the mom who stayed dilated to 5 cm for a whole week.
When to expect cervical exams as part of your prenatal care and exactly when ones you can decline.
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Saying yes to an induction, or pitocin, is like saying yes to an epidural. Once you start pitocin your birth is medicalized and that includes a higher chance of wanting the epidural.
In this episode, I discuss:
How pitocin and oxytocin are the same chemical compound but work very very differently in or bodies.
If you had pitocin in the past and it felt like your birth was out of control, it was. Pitocin means your birth is being control outside your body.
Starting pitocin can mean that your coping skills are less accessible which can lead to an unwanted epidural.
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