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The Unmedicated Girlies | Empowered + Informed Birth Education with Fierce Lizzie episodes
- 164 | MUST HAVES for your unmedicated VBAC
For the fourth year in a row the cesarean rate in the US has increased. And the greatest influence on if you have a vaginal birth is policy and rules put on birth. Here is what you need to know if you are planning an unmedicated VBAC (or for any mom planning for a vaginal birth!).
You'll learn:
- A little history around the fluctuations in cesarean rate, why it was so high in 2009 and again in 2023.
- The four must haves as you plan for an unmedicated VBAC to increase your chances of a vaginal birth after cesarean.
- A comparison on using intermittent auscultation versus continuous fetal monitoring for a hospital VBAC.
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32 min - 163 | 4 steps to your BOSS birth, how to have an unmedicated hospital birth
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
29 min - 162 | Physiologic birth from start to finish, avoid all the interventions that come once you feel pushy too
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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21 min - 161 | How the hospital will sabotage your birth
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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30 min - 160 | Your body (and baby) wants an unmedicated birth, the benefits of natural birth
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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24 min - 159 | The LIE behind a low lying placenta
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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27 min - 158 | Margot Robbie is pregnant, will she get informed? How the hospital takes away your power
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??
23 min - 157 | Postpartum bleeding is physiologic, was it really a pph?
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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35 min - 156 | Get obsessed with your birth, the best way to get prepared for birth
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.
28 min - 155 | Bobbie caused their own formula shortage! Bobbie tanks your supply, then tanks theirs
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.
Listen to the episode with the Radical Moms Union: Episode 114 We Crashed a Formula Marketing Meeting
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About The Unmedicated Girlies | Empowered + Informed Birth Education with Fierce Lizzie
From the publisher's feed
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…
that it takes going against the status quo to get there.
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