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What is WILD pregnancy? We have one of our good friends from the Moms off the Record podcast, Kat Sigblad, sharing about her current pregnancy with baby number two. With her first birth, Kat thought she prepared the right way, from firing her provider and switching to home birth to being educated on all things natural birth, but what she learned is even home birth midwives can be captured by the system. Not wanting her next birth to be sabotaged as well, Kat did everything differently, starting before conception and by doing her own prenatal care and having a truly autonomous pregnancy.
In this episode, Kat gives all the juicy details on her wild pregnancy, including:
The scare tactics and manipulation from her home birth midwives that ultimately led her to having a 72 hour induction and failure to descend leading to an unnecessary cesarean.
Her promise to not outsource her intuition to someone bound by rules and regulations and the experts she is turning to instead.
The typical mindset and belief that more technology and more experts equals a safer birth, and the fallacy of having technology in the birth space.
The downsides of the prenatal routine and exactly what Kat will be opting out of and including in her prenatal care, including gestational diabetes screen, blood pressure monitoring, ultrasounds, gbs and fetal monitoring.
More resources for wild pregnancy:
Kat's Substack - coming soon!
Moms off the Record Podcast
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Anisa Woodall - Holistic fertility & nutrition
Free Birth Society Podcast -
The ONE thing I wish someone had told me when I was pregnant with my first. Here I am telling it to you if you haven't heard me say it already.
In this episode I discuss:
The 7Bs of attachment parenting and the intuitive way to parent your baby. In 2013, I read food blogs when I should have been finding the home birth corner on the web. The gaps in our prenatal care, specifically the lack of options and informed consent that come with the typical hospital prenatal.Subscribe to Launch Your Micro Mom Business - NOW on Apple and Spotify
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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.Grab a spot inside Home Birth in the Hospital
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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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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 donât 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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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
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The Washington Post said women are spreading âmisinformationâ 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, letâs 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 âmisinformationâ 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:
Book a free consult call with Carly
Fifth Vital Sign and Taking Charge of Your Fertility on Amazon
The Business of Birth Control
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Connect with Carly
https://www.cleanlivingwithcarly.com/
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Youâve got a medicine cabinet full of herbs and natural remedies but are you applying the same approach to your birth? You have left the mainstream version of healing your colds but are you still taking the mainstream route to birth? Letâs talk about it!
Get your medal for your unmedicated birth
In this episode I discuss:
- Why I donât take prescription drugs or typical over the counter remedies for both my headaches and my anxiety, even though I am the perfect candidate for zoloft.
- The root cause approach to healing and how you can apply that mindset to your labor pain.
- What stood out to me when my kids and I watched a dog giving birth on youtube.
- One thing you can do to support physiology that has the biggest impact on your birth.
More episodes youâll love:
90 | Labor pain has purpose, how feeling the pain of birth is helpful to your baby
85: Signs your induction is BSWant to work with me?
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
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Just like a batch of cookies has directions to bake for 10-13 minutes, your baby has a range to bake for 37-42 weeks. Yet, hospital practices have lowered the average length of gestation because they are inducing almost everyone. What are so many moms being induced? And are you really overdue after 40 weeks?
In this episode I discuss:
-The accuracy of due dates and why it should be called a guess date instead.
-The controversy around inducing just because a mom is 40 weeks-Why women risk out of home birth at 42 weeks and can still have a low risk birth.-The reason so many women are induced.
Mentioned on the show: US birth weights drop due to rise in Cesarean births, inductions
Other episodes youâll love:132 | Get informed on the epidural, pros and cons of the epidural in birth
117 | If labor is more than 24 hours, 3 things to do in case labor is long
105 | Home births donât need birth plans, hospital births need more than a birth plan
Want to work with me?
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
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People pleasing shows up in birth a LOT. But this one sneaky way of people pleasing also tends to show up even in the most experienced, assertive and unapologetic birth spaces.
In this episode I discuss:
-People pleasing practices in the birth space are what hospitals are used to and staff may be shocked when you are assertive.
-Evidence can be a useful tool in decision making but we don't need to use it to please others.
-Evidence is based in the medical model and not physiology, it's not the end all be all for moms who want unmedicated, physiologic births.
Other episodes you'll love:
111 | Be more UNAPOLOGETIC
110 | Unmedicated birth is not always empowering, natural, or orgasmic
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When an OB takes to the internet to say âwomenâs bodies are historically bad at birthâ you better believe the birth community is showing up. Today we are talking about the viral #dontpagedrfran movement on Instagram, exactly what the OB said that has the birth community enraged, and the lessons you can apply to your birth.
In this episode I discuss:
-The reel from @pagnigdrfran where she said âwomen are historically bad at birthâ and that âour bodies are trying to off us every time we are pregnantâ. And how the birth community showed up with #dontpagedrfran
-Our current maternal mortality rate is telling of the United States as being bad at birth.-The perfect example of a provider and hospital saying one thing, then doing another. The typical bait and switch that many women have experienced.
-How invalidating positive home birth stories on the basis of survivors bias is hypocritical coming from the medical model.
-The importance of personality versus practice when it comes to hiring (and firing) your provider.
Other episodes youâll love:
80 | The bait & switch birth
77 | Birth centers arenât what they seem
34 | Finding your unicorn OB
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Birth Prep Class: This 30 minute class will teach you what you can do now to help prepare your mind and body for an unmedicated birth. It's FREE ïž
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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
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Episode 2 for World Doula Week. In this episode I am answering all your doula questions from finding and hiring a doula to what itâs like being a doula!
I answer the following questions:
Where do I find a doula local to me?
Questions to ask before hiring a doula.
How much do doulas cost?
How to become a doula
What does getting started with a new client look like?
Why donât they protect physiologic birth anymore?
Do you think doulas should have babies before becoming doulas (i low key think they do)?
Did you get a doula?
Have you ever felt like you had a client/patient who was out of your skill set?
Would you/have you declined working with someone wanting a birth you didnât agree with?Other episodes youâll love:
70 | Doula certifications suck, with Kallie Caton
100 | Becoming a self taught doula
133 | What doulas do for you, World Doula Week pt. 1
Want to work with me?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
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Welcome to World Doula Week! Did you know that doulas love to bring awareness to the benefits of doulas during WDW? If you've wondered what a doula does during your birth, or maybe what a doula doesn't do, or If you have questioned wether you need a doula or not, you are in the right place.
In this episode I discuss:
-The role of the doula and how it is different than the midwife.
-What I do with my client as their doula
-Why you still need childbirth education, even with a doula. Doulas do not replace childbirth education.
-How doulas support birth partners and the important role of dads during birth
-My surprising answer to , do I need a doula?
Other episodes you'll love:
70: Doula certifications suck, with Kallie Caton
100 | Becoming a self taught doula
124 | Biased doulas for biased moms, finding the right doula, with Sydney Taylor
Get the NEW Birth Prep Class
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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
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If you are having your baby in the hospital, you need to be informed about the epidural, whether your plan is to utilize it or not. In fact after this episode you may decided to definitely not use the epidural and it may be easier for you to avoid the epidural after you learn all about it. Let’s get informed on the epidural!
In this episode I discuss:
-Risks and benefits of the epidural, the most popular form of pain management in the hospital birth.
-How the epidural is placed and the two most common ingredients, bupivacaine and fentanyl.
-What to expect if you ask for an epidural, and how being partially informed while in labor is not fair to moms, nor is it true informed consent.
-Alternatives to the epidural and the pros and cons to IV narcotics, nitrous oxide and unmedicated pain management tools
More episodes you’ll love:
122 | the 90% epidural rate makes natural birth in the hospital almost impossible
120 | There wasn’t an epidural at this hospital, a first time mom’s planned unmedicated hospital birth, with Ariana Heisler
90 | Labor pain has purpose, how feeling the pain of birth is helpful to your baby
73: Deep Dive on Newborn Screening
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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
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There is no quick fix, one and done, just do this and get the birth you want. But there IS one thing that is going to help you encompass all those 'tips and tricks' and that is taking radical responsibility.
In this episode I discuss:
-Taking responsibility IS radical, because the average mom walking into the hospital is asking to be told what to do.
-Why taking radical responsibility is needed, and all because of phrases like "we need to.." and "you're not allowed to"
-Four tips on taking responsibility and control of your birth
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Join Unmedicated Academy for the most empowered birth prep
More episodes youâll love:
63: Radical Responsibility, with Rebekah Richardson
Feeling empowered vs being empowered
104 | A mindset shift to stay more accountable to your birth prep
111 | Be more UNAPOLOGETIC
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Academy mom Kerissa Ransbury shares her two birth stories. Her fist where she was underprepared and ended up pushing for 6 hours versus the birth she loves to share because it was so positive. She prepared the right way and everything went exactly how she imagined, she labored at home, had zero pain, and her husband caught her baby. All in the hospital!
In this episode, Kerissa discusses:
-Her first birth started with cytotec after her waters broke. She ended up getting an epidural, which slowed things down and ended up pushing on her back for 6 hours.
-She started preparing for baby 2 as soon as she found out she was pregnant, and she went all in with books, social media and of course, Unmedicated Academy,
-Unmedicated Academy worked so well because she knew everything, being informed meant her voice was heard and respected in her prenatal care and birth.
-Staying home as long as possible, she waited til contractions were 2 minutes apart, as a way to not be coerced or be on the hospitalâs timeline.
-She got her pain free birth and her husband (and daddy doula) caught her baby as she birthed upright on the side of the tub.
Other birth stories on the podcast:
120 | There wasnât an epidural at this hospital, a first time momâs planned unmedicated hospital birth, with Ariana Heisler
96 | Asynclitic to unmedicated, Eden shares her Irish twin birth stories, with Eden Overaker
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What if I start an induction and it doesnât work? What if I change my mind? You have the right to stop an induction and leave the hospital. And if you want to keep that option open NEVER let them break your waters.
In this episode I cover:
-Avoiding an induction in the first place is the best way to support physiology and an unmedicated birth plan
-The difficulties of going from a medicated birth routine to an unmedicated birth.
-The options you have if you decide to stop your induction.
More episodes youâll love:
119 | One thing you wonât get in the hospital birth, have a hands off second stage
116 | 3 things that will sabotage your birth plan
107 | Hospital discharge plan, you donât have to stay 24 hours
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No, birth is not like pooping out a watermelon. But birth is a lot like pooping in other ways. Take the squatty potty for an example, we have completely normalized and accepted an upright pooping position but not upright birth.
Are you ready to learn about REAL birth?
Unmedicated Academy will teach you how birth works and how the hospital works so you can support the birth you want even in the medicalized setting.
Want to skip cervical checks, inductions, pitocin, unnecessary drugs, pushing on your back? Yeah, you should! None of those belong in birth anyways.
Currently enrolling guess dates in June & July.
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In honor of pregnancy after loss month, we have PAL (pregnancy after loss) doula Sarah Lingle. âIt was probably the most emotional time of my lifeâ Pregnancy after loss is hard, it can be full of anxiety, and itâs also a time of so much hope and joy. For many loss moms, there are more interventions in both their pregnancy and birth, wether by choice or by coercion. Sarah gives her best preparation tips for moms experiencing pregnancy after loss for them to feel informed and confident.
In this episode, Sarah shares:
-The most amazing part of her own birth story, a record breaking twin interval birth.
-Her interest in birth started after seeing the women in her family give birth at home, leading her to midwifery school, and ultimately landing on becoming a doula, where she now helps moms during pregnancy after loss.
-How her trust in birth was tested after her own loss, and how she manages her anxieties and fears with her next pregnancy and birth.
-What makes PAL (pregnancy after loss) moms different and how she supports those moms with her doula services.
-The rate of interventions are higher with pregnancy and birth after loss, both by choice and by coercion.
-How trauma resurfaces in birth, even if we didnât realize how traumatic that previous experience was.
Sarah aims to empower and support mothers who have experienced loss, as well as those navigating subsequent pregnancies after loss. Her motivation stems from personal loneliness during loss, infertility, and PAL. Sarah understands firsthand the challenges, but she wants to assure others that they're not alone.Sarah can be found on social media at @paldoula, on podcasts at The PAL Doula Podcast, and online at pregnancyafterlossdoula.com
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