Birth plans??

[Runnerbean]

Hi girls, I know it's abit late organising this now as I am 40+6 but it just dawned on me that I have no official birth plan written out. This doesn't bother me so much in that I have a great relationship with my mw and as long as the birth is at home I'm not worried. It's in the event of a transfer that I am worried. I haven't put anything on paper yet because I didn't want to jinx things and prepare for an event I absolutely don't want to happen, but maybe I need to be more realistic??
Do any of you have birth plans in the event of a transfer?

[GoBecGo]

I did. I've had one both times and so far *knocking on my head* haven't needed them.

Both of them are very short because i know i'd not transfer for pain relief, only if i needed a c-section for some reason. So they say things like:

I suffer from hypothyroidism and take 100mcgm of thyroxine daily, my partner will bring my medication with us.

We don't intend this to be my last baby, please protect my fertility and ability to VBAC if you can.

I wish to breastfeed, please help me have skin-to-skin contact and get my baby to the breast as soon as possible.

Please do not wash the baby unless medically necessary.

If i am too ill to make decisions, all decisions regarding my health and the health of my baby should be made by my partner, the baby's father.

We wish our baby to have the Vitamin K injection.

I might be very frightened, thank you for your patience!

I try to take the "i know you are saving me/us" tone while putting forward my desires. I kind of know that my local hospitals would do whatever they felt necessary in an emergency and wouldn't give a hoot about my birth plan, so i write it hopefully rather than sternly. Interestingly for me i think it's a necessary thing to write it out. I don't believe in "jinxing" though. With DD1 she was 11 days overdue, and labour began about 6 hours after i finally wrote a transfer plan and packed a bag. With DD2 i wrote the transfer plan at about 39weeks and never bothered with the bag, just told DH what to bring in an emergency.

[Motherwolf]

excellent resource and thoughts.
Thanks!

[MegBoz]

I'm not a superstitious person & think it can't hurt. if anything, having a transfer plan printed out is probably a nice insurance policy that I will NOT need it.

What GoBecGo has sounds good to me.

I'd also include some things in my BP when I had DS in a hospital. Under the CS quadrant:
-I do not consent to versed
-Please close my uterus with a 2-stitch method

& more notes on baby care:
-no artificial nipples
-no vax
-no eye ointment

[EMAID]

I'm 39+6 today. I have a birth plan that includes possibilities for transfer, how to get an ambulance (we live next door to a fire/ambulance station, so we don't have to call 911), what hospital to go to (several possibilities because of traffic situations), etc. I wrote down a few points about what I'd want in the case of c-sec, what I would want to do regarding care for the baby (similar to what others have written), and I even wrote out some stuff about things that would help me handle still birth/ death of the baby. I'm kind of anal about planning, and to me it was easier to put it down ahead of time, since I might not be in my right mind in any of these situations. I wouldn't want a well meaning person, even DH, to guess wrong about what I would want.

[Runnerbean]

Thanks for the replies girls, 41 wks today and have an appt with my midwife this morn, will put something together and have a chat with her about it, I know it makes sense, I guess I was hoping I would have a) had baby by now and b) not ever to have to worry about transfers but I see now it will prob help me relax more to have something written down