Unapologetically Unmedicated | Empowered & Informed Birth Education with Fierce Lizzie Fierce Lizzie

This is an incredible birth story that you won't want to miss. Katie shares her amazing journey from finding the online birth community in pre-conception to her long, tough back labor in the hospital, completely unmedicated. Katie's favorite part of her story, was reaching down to catch her own baby. She calls it the best gift she's ever received.



In this episode, Katie shares:


What she did to prepare for her natural hospital birth, and all the mindset work behind believe she could do it.
Why she chose to birth in the hospital, even though she wanted a home birth.
How preparing her husband with Unmedicated Academy helped him to trust birth too.
All 31 hours, starting a home with losing her mucous plug, to her doula walking in to help, to leaving for the hospital to use their birth tubs, to finally catching her baby.
The feeling of empowerment that came with her birth, and how she feels like she can do anything now.



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Why do I have a consult appointment with my oral surgeon but not my OB? Home birth midwives generally do free consults as well. Want a more home birth like hospital birth? Run your own consultation and ask the right questions to see if your provider is the right fit for what you want in your birth. And if you are currently seeing an OB or a practice with OBs do not skip this ONE question.



More questions to ask in the episode on Finding Your Unicorn OB



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Ready to join Unmedicated Academy? The program is a combination of birth prep, planning and education using what I call the birth immersion protocol that will turn you into a birth expert just in time for your due date. Join the empowered moms club.

If you can't have a home birth, for whatever reason, I get it. That was me too. That is why my area of expertise is helping moms have hospital births that feels more liek home births. Why? Because moms who birth are home are more likely to feel supported, have lower risk outcomes, have fewer interventions, and they always hit their goal of an unmedicated birth. The hospital is nothing like a home birth but there are some home birth practices that we can bring in to our hospital births. In this episode I discuss five things to plan for if your goal is an unmedicated hospital birth.

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Travel back in time with me as I go line by line through the birth plan I wrote as a first time mom in 2013. Back before there was a birth side of instagram and no one was listening to podcasts (or at least, I wasn't). In the episode I discuss each request from my birth plan, the biggest mistake I made, and if I actually got what I wanted.



More episodes you'll love:

49: Using my super simple birth plan template

71: Hypnobirthing didn't work for me

105 | Home births don’t need birth plans, hospital births need more than a birth plan

116 | 3 things that will sabotage your birth plan



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April is cesarean awareness month. Approximately 1.3 million women in the United States undergo a cesarean section every year. It is the most common surgery done in the United States. And our cesarean rates have actually gone up in recent years, meaning it's more important now than ever to understand the risks, especially of repeat cesareans, and how to avoid an unnecessary c-section.



In this episode I discuss:


C-section being a neutral tool with risks and benefits, that is being overused. Even the World Health Organization agrees and states that cesarean rates should be 10-15% for the best overall outcomes for moms and babies.
The most disgusting thing I saw online last week from an OB celebrating 100 c-sections performed.
The definition, and impact of a primary cesarean. In the US, the rate of cesarean is 32.1% overall and primary cesarean rate is 22.5%
How one hospital proves that you don't need to follow the ARRIVE trial guidelines to lower the risk of primary cesarean.



Research on reducing primary cesarean

Leapfrog Hospital Ratings



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The Washington Post said women are spreading “misinformation” about birth control in a recent article and many women in our community were PISSED. Myself included. SO I asked my good friend Carly Hartwig on today to talk about it- the REAL reason women are not okay with hormonal birth control and why we are choosing just as effective alternatives to the IUD, nuvaring, and the pill. Carly is a holistic reproductive health practitioner and certified fertility awareness educator. In this episode we are calling out the misinformation claim, let’s get informed instead.

In this episode, we discuss:


The illusion of empowerment that birth control has and how it is actually the opposite of what true empowerment is.


The importance of informed consent in birth and birth control, and how if we had known the risks of birth control we would have never agreed to be on it. 


How women are gaslit in our medical system, in birth, and in this Washington Post article on birth control.


Alternative methods of birth control are being suppressed and called “misinformation” to keep you weak, sick, and disempowered which creates a pharmaceutical and fertility client for life. 


All of your birth control options, including cycle tracking options. How the rhythm method and use of period tracking apps are less effective, and true fertility awareness is the more effective natural method and just as effective as pharmaceutical birth control when done correctly.


Resources to get started with fertility awareness method.



Resources mentioned on the show:

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Fifth Vital Sign and Taking Charge of Your Fertility on Amazon

The Business of Birth Control

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https://www.cleanlivingwithcarly.com/

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Unmedicated Academy: The signature program for moms who want to be the boss of their unmedicated birth and be educated, informed and empowered. We will chat each week and you'll be blown away by how much support is inside. Join the empowered mom club