The Unmedicated Girlies | Empowered + Informed Birth Education with Fierce Lizzie – Details, episodes & analysis

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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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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Let's talk about the big O. This episode is all about oxytocin and orgasm and where you should give birth.

In this episode I cover:

-How orgasm and birth are related

-The truth behind how common orgasmic birth is

-How sex is different in your home, an airbnb, and a public restroom

-What you can do to make your hospital birth more homey

Mentioned on the show:

Episode 77: Birth centers aren't what they seem

@the_birth_house OXYTOCIN reel

Birth centers aren’t always what they seem. It’s common for women to choose a birth center for all the things the homebirth has to offer without being at home, but then they get a kind of typical hospital birth experience. In this episode I go over the big differences between homebirth, birth centers and the hospital in terms of what is the most supportive of physiologic birth.

In this episode I talk about:

-Why homebirth is the gold standard of birth locations, and the orgasm analogy proves it

-Some reasons why moms may chose a birth center or hospital birth, and two reason I think are BS

-The wide spectrum of birth centers and what you may experience with them

-HOw to have a more homebirth style hospital birth

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Part 2 of the homeschool series. In this episode I answer some questions from you about homeschooling. Everything from the fact that you're already homeschooling as a SAHM, to exactly how much time we spend each day/week on schooling, to the fact that my homeschool kids socialize more than they would in public school.

Here’s the questions I go over- listen in for my answers:

• How do I handle homeschooling when I can barely handle one 19 mo old and laundry?

• Do you homeschool or unschool?

• How to grow your home library when you’re a minimalist/have little space?

• How many days/hours do you do curriculum vs fun/life learning.

• Rundown of a typical day

• How many hours a day do you spend on homeschooling typically?

• Ideas for socializing?

• How to prepare kids for college if they chose that route?

• How to work full time and homeschool

• Do you have to register as a teacher?

• Can I homeschool without a co-op? 

Mentioned on the show:

Nicole Pasveer - Not Just a Mom Podcast Episode

Ambitious at Home: https://www.instagram.com/ambitious.at.home/

Homeschool laws by state: https://hslda.org/legal

1000 Hours Outside Curriculum: https://www.1000hoursoutside.com/curriculum

All About Reading TK Curriculum: https://www.allaboutlearningpress.com/all-about-reading-pre-reading/

This is the how and why we became a homeschool family. This story is a pivotal part of my life and a big transition on so many levels- one that I am so thankful for.

In this episode I cover:

-How home schooling was never on my radar as an aspiring teacher.

-Feeling resistance when I would drop Millie off at Kindergarten

-Having a mental breakdown after going back to work full time as a mom of two

-How leaving my job and moving finally gave me the permission to do what I wanted

-The homeschooling success we saw right away

See the show notes: fiercelizzie.com/podcast/75

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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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Recently I got a message that asked what I thought about a post that said “an unmedicated hospital birth is hardly similar to a home birth” And you know I am always saying you can have a home birth style hospital birth. So let's dig into this! I share how I think you can have similarities between home birth and some unmedicated hospital birth, and the biggest thing you cannot replicate from a home birth.

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See the show notes: fiercelizzie.com/podcast/74

If you have had a baby in the last 15 years, you most likely did a newborn screening. This is where they prick the baby’s heel, collect a few drops on a screening card and send it off to the lab to test for 30+ different genetic disorders and conditions. And of course, it’s just not as simple as that.. So let's get informed!