So last night was our last night of the hospital childbirth classes. The speaker was the superviser of the nursery and a friend of ours (she's goes to church with us and has taken care of DH and all his neices and nephews and our son when they were born.
My birth plan has been signed and approved by my OB and I was feeling really great about it. I felt he understood me and was going to work with me. I felt really confident about my birth. He did warn me about some of the nurses might give me a problem but I figured I have the doctor's okay and his rules.
However last night she ruined it for me. I wanted a nurse's opinion on how the nurses would react to my birth plan and if they would give me a problem about it. She started out saying how not to worry about it, they are real good about it, she couldn't consider herself a good nurse if she went against my birth plan. But as she kept talking (she's kind of a rambler and it can be difficult to really get her point), she started saying things like she won't let my plans endanger the baby, she rarely sees births go as planned (she said it as if plans were worthless), to be careful not to back myself into a corner. Its all in the way you present yourself is another thing she kept saying.
I guess I think she was trying to warn me that my plan was useless and they'll do whatever they want but she didn't want to saying it out right. I told her she'll get my birth plan up on the floor next week and then she can talk to me about it if need be.
I just don't really know what to think now! I wish I could talk to my doctor but I feel silly calling him for this and I won't get to see him for another 3 weeks because he's going to be at a conference at my next appt and I have to see his colleague.
I'm going to talk to DH and ask him to kinda clear up what she was trying to say. We may review my birth plan (need to anyway). If need be I'll type up another plan. This would be the 3rd!
This has me stressing.
My birth plan has been signed and approved by my OB and I was feeling really great about it. I felt he understood me and was going to work with me. I felt really confident about my birth. He did warn me about some of the nurses might give me a problem but I figured I have the doctor's okay and his rules.
However last night she ruined it for me. I wanted a nurse's opinion on how the nurses would react to my birth plan and if they would give me a problem about it. She started out saying how not to worry about it, they are real good about it, she couldn't consider herself a good nurse if she went against my birth plan. But as she kept talking (she's kind of a rambler and it can be difficult to really get her point), she started saying things like she won't let my plans endanger the baby, she rarely sees births go as planned (she said it as if plans were worthless), to be careful not to back myself into a corner. Its all in the way you present yourself is another thing she kept saying.
I guess I think she was trying to warn me that my plan was useless and they'll do whatever they want but she didn't want to saying it out right. I told her she'll get my birth plan up on the floor next week and then she can talk to me about it if need be.
I just don't really know what to think now! I wish I could talk to my doctor but I feel silly calling him for this and I won't get to see him for another 3 weeks because he's going to be at a conference at my next appt and I have to see his colleague.
I'm going to talk to DH and ask him to kinda clear up what she was trying to say. We may review my birth plan (need to anyway). If need be I'll type up another plan. This would be the 3rd!
This has me stressing.