You can't write a birth plan if you know nothing about, well, what to expect when you're expecting.
Not exact matches
I had no idea that
not only could I give
birth without meds, I could write up an entire Birth Plan with instructions for how I wanted to be monitored, immediate skin to skin with baby, right down to what I did or didn't want put in our precious baby's tiny
birth without meds, I could
write up an entire
Birth Plan with instructions for how I wanted to be monitored, immediate skin to skin with baby, right down to what I did or didn't want put in our precious baby's tiny
Birth Plan with instructions for how I wanted to be monitored, immediate skin to skin with baby, right down to what I did or didn't want put in our precious baby's tiny body.
Not what I'd expected, in spite of months of reading,
birth -
plan writing and attendance at prenatal classes.
This caught me off guard during my pregnancy as I didn't know how to
write a
birth plan, let alone what that even meant.
But even if you choose
not to
write a
birth plan, it's still a good idea to prepare yourself for
birth.
Just because I never
wrote a
birth plan, though, doesn't mean that I didn't prepare for my
births.
You can
write the best, most detailed
birth plan in the world, but if your doctor or midwife won't read it or doesn't support your goals, a
birth plan won't get you very far.
But looking back, there is one part of my
birth plan that I didn't
write and wish I had.
The
birth plan is
not written in stone.
You'll learn to
write a
birth plan that is easy to read and will
not be tossed aside.
But, as I
wrote my
birth story, I was able to lose that anger, and instead, speak hope for other moms who might
not have the perfect
birth they
planned.
Now, if they were
planning a
birth center
birth and unplanned, the baby came really quickly, usually, they'll still allow us to
write a letter because we had been you know, we have knowledge of the family and we were providing care all through the pregnancy so we knew this mom and we took care of her immediately after the
birth, but if that's
not the case and a family just has an unassisted
birth, they definitely need two people who witness the
birth to go with them or a letter from someone who witnesses the
birth.
To those nurses, women who
write birth plans are inflexible, don't understand the unpredictable nature of
birth, and want a natural
birth even if it costs her or her baby their safety or health.
I promise WellnessMama.com won't turn into a pregnancy blog, though I do
plan to take the opportunity to
write a few new posts on pregnancy /
birth / fertility related topics that I've gotten a lot of questions about recently.
The Daily Telegraph's Richard Dorment
wrote: «When some bright spark at Tate Britain came up with the idea of doing a show about the history of iconoclasm in this country, why wasn't the
plan strangled at
birth?»