Birth plans?

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Edited just to ask: 
What does your birth plan look like?

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Depending on how close you are to delivery, you may want to look into taking a birthing class (maybe through your hospital or even someplace like an Evidenced Base Birthing class). We took the EBB class over 6 weeks, and it was super informative and making a birthing plan was one of the assignments. It went over all the interventions, with benefits and risks. It also went over newborn care.
As another said, eye drops are used to prevent pink eye from developing. STDs used to cause blinding pink eye in infants before antibiotics were around. Personally, we are talking about not doing eye drops as I don’t have STDs.
But the vitamin K shot I think is super important. Babies that are breastfed especially need the shot so they don’t develop VKDB (life-threatening bleeding).

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I don’t have a birth plan since 9 times outta 10 they don’t go as planned . I’m just letting it play out

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Delayed cord clamping, the golden hour after birth, no bath till the day we leave hospital.

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Mine looks like this...
Hopefully vaginal. Unmedicated. As few interventions as possible. 
Delayed cord clamping. Husband cuts the cord. Straight to boob for nursing. 
Annnnnnd that’s all I care about lol

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Eye ointment and vitamin K are standard practices for newborn care after delivery. Eye ointment is to prevent eye infections and vitamin K shots are given because newborns don’t have the gastrointestinal development to produce it themselves. Vitamin K is essential for creating clotting factors so people don’t bleed internally

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hopefully unmedicated and not too long lol i have no idea how its gunna go i just have my hospital bag ready to go and im mostly just tired of being pregnant and thats honestly all i can think of: being tired

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I already know I’ll be induced so my plan is induction, possible IV for GBS (I had it last pregnancy don’t know if I have it this time yet), and then once my water is broke I’ll determine if/when to ask for my epidural. Who knows what will really happen. My first labor was very similar with an induction and epidural and I was only in active labor and delivery for about 4.5 hours. I’d love to repeat that again lol

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Haven’t written it down yet and this is my first so I don’t entirely know, but so far I’m thinking yes to epidural or other pain meds, delayed cord clamping, yes to whatever shots/ meds the baby needs, and most importantly (after making sure baby’s ok) is having hubby there no matter what’s going on with stupid covid. No other visitors is fine but hubby’s gotta be there. So far they allow just one support person which’ll be him, if they take that away we’ll just have to go somewhere else although I don’t know where. That’s my main source of anxiety this year after keeping ourselves and baby healthy. Trying not to worry since they do allow one person so far, but I’m due in December so still have to hope it doesn’t change in a negative direction.

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My birth plan looks like convincing my I tot to induce me early because I’m over this pregnancy 😂 in all seriousness though, whatever your birth plan is just remember at the end of the day all that matters is you and that baby

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Haven’t got one 😂 as long as baby gets out safely that is all I care about. I’ve heard a lot of things don’t go to plan so I’m keeping an open mind x

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