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.

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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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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

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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