The Unmedicated Girlies | Empowered + Informed Birth Education with Fierce Lizzie

I know you have probably been told that you have to have a cervical check before you can be admitted to the hospital. And honestly that’s a lie. If you don’t want someone in your vagina you can say no. In this episode I go over why the cervical check at admissions doesn't mean much and what some alternatives are.

This is part of a mini series where we will dig a little deeper into different situations and the different reasons to decline cervical checks that apply during the typical times your provider is performing them, in late pregnancy, at admission, during labor. 

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I want a home birth style birth in the hospital and that’s not too much to ask. I couldn’t have the home birth I wanted but that wasn’t going to stop me from asking for what I wanted from the midwifery model to happen in my hospital birth. Tune in for a few things that always happen in the midwifery model that shouldn’t be too much to ask in your hospital birth.

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The cervical check, by far the intervention I get the most questions/shock about.In this episode I cover the general reasons that a mom may want to decline a cervical check, including the evidence based one and one that is equally important as the evidence. This is part of a mini series where we will dig a little deeper into different situations and the different reasons to decline cervical checks that apply during the typical times your provider is performing them, in late pregnancy, at admission, during labor.

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