Post your birth plan here - Page 3

[2 in August]

Wow, that is cool that they are encouraging natural options. Can you add to it too?

[magpiedee]

My MW gave me a birth plan that trumps my succinct little 1-pager. Here it is, and I think about it and smile every day:

1. Do whatever Margaret (the MW) says.
2. No needles unless i'm dying.
3. If my in-laws come through the door, shoot them.

Sounds good to me!

[coop_mom]

ha ha! that's really funny!

I was just working on my birth plan last night, in case I end up going to the hospital for some reason, but I like yours better!

--kristin

[crazyeight]

i am going to a birth center and although they gave me a birth plan worksheet i didn't have hardly anything to put on it!!! compared to my hospital birth this is going to be so much easier!!!
i don't have a choice of labor drugs and no ones going to ask...check.
they don't do episiotomies so i don't have to worry about them doing/asking unless i am going to tear up again....check.
they don't really do EFM so i don't have to constantly take it off myself....check.
of course they want you to walk around, get in the shower/tub do whatever makes you comfy and have a birth ball....check
they automatically put the baby on you, encourage BF.....check


the only thing i need to really tell them is to offer for dh to cut the cord and if he says no its ok. and then find out about what shots/drops/apgars etc and when they are done.

i still need to decide about the shots. i am vaxing but no hep b but i don't know about the drops in the eyes and the vit. k (????) shot. i just haven't done any homework on that at all.

[wildflowermama]

I am having my second home vbac any day now. I did make a just in case of transport plan and a just in case of surgery plan. However, I am one of those people who once I have a plan, I don't worry, for others this might make them worry more. I wrote a 14 page (including a table of contents!) booklet for my birth team. The actual birth plan for in case of transfer or surgery is just one page long. The plan for at home is a bit longer. I included things like what to bring to the birth (like a personal bag for the members of the team), a list of where things are located in the house, a little blurb about what each person's "duties" (for lack of a better term) are, a bit about my children, some funny stories from my last homebirth, a poem I wrote about the baby I miscarried (who I believe is this baby I'm fixin to birth), as well as an almost page long statement about privacy. I have rather high standards of privacy apparently. I had fun putting it together and we all had fun going over it on the home visit. I also covered things about how I might change my mind at any minute and how I might ask them to leave and please don't be offended if I do, ect. Mostly it was written for the team members other than my doula and my midwife but my midwife said she wished more people were so assertive. It will make a nice keepsake I think.