#247 | The Birth of Fierce Lizzie: From Rule Follower to Autonomy Advocate

Down to Birth

Cynthia Overgard & Trisha Ludwig

Pregnancy, Childbirth, Postpartum, Midwives, Alternative Health, Home Birth, Society & Culture, Newborn, Documentary, Hypnobirthing, Kids & Family, Health & Fitness, Breastfeeding, Pregnant, Birth, Maternity, Motherhood

4.8 • 586 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Lizzie Bolliger, aka Fierce Lizzie on Instagram, wasn't always fierce. She went into her first birth experience knowing very little other than that she wanted an unmedicated vaginal birth. After experiencing premature rupture of membranes, her first birth resulted in Pitocin augmentation and then meconium aspiration, resulting in her baby being taken away from her for the first fifteen hours of life. The second time around, she figured she knew enough to avoid an epidural and Pitocin bu...

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0:00.0	I get a new nurse and she said exactly what you said, Tricia, she said, if cord prolapse was going to happen, it's going to happen.
0:10.1	Like, you don't need to be in bed. You can get up and move around. So the reason she said I could get out of bed was because she brought the pit machine in.
0:17.9	I think I did wait for her permission though. You know, good girl mentality over
0:22.8	here, like rule follower. This is not one. I wasn't Fierce Lizzie yet. I'm Cynthia Overgard,
0:31.2	owner of hypnibirthing of Connecticut, childbirth advocate, and postpartum support specialist.
0:36.4	And I'm Trescia Ludwig, certified nurse midwife and international board certified lactation consultant.
0:42.5	And this is the Down to Birth podcast.
0:47.1	Childbirth is something we're made to do, but how do we have our safest and most satisfying experience in today's medical culture?
0:55.1	Let's dispel the myths and get down to birth.
1:03.8	I'm so happy to be here with you guys today, Cynthia and Trisha. My name is Lizzie,
1:10.2	aka Pierce Lizzie online. It's my online persona that I try to channel in real life too.
1:16.5	And this isn't my first time on your show. So I was on the show previously, episode 146, if you want to go listen.
1:22.8	We talked about autonomy and really like asserting and being fierce about your birth plan.
1:29.8	But today we're going to,
1:36.3	I'm going to share my my personal birth stories and kind of how that led me to where I am today in the birth world. Can you also just say your last name for us, Lizzie? Oh yeah, that was my
1:42.9	favorite outtake we've never had. And that's one where we're learning how to say your name is my favorite outtake. So yeah. And we'll just get this on the record again too. So Lizzie Bolliger. It's very easy, everyone. It's very easy. There's no end. Never mind that it took us five or ten tries the first time. And that's ball as in B-O-L, not.
2:03.5	Maybe that's why it's ball and not bowl, because every time someone starts with bowl,
2:08.2	they go into danger.
2:10.1	Yeah, I don't know.
2:11.3	All right.
2:12.4	Let's proceed.
2:13.1	I just wanted to make sure we had that on the record before we begin.
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