Do you have a birth plan?

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I urge all mothers to watch The Business of Being Born!!! Please it will completely change your view on how safe it really is to let the hospital staff induce your labors, giving you PIT, epidurals, help you deliver via vacuum! All these things given to you all stress the baby out and give doctors the opportunity to pressure you into having c-sections! I know c-sections are sometimes necessary but wouldnt it be nice to avoid such a traumatic surgery!

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After a horrible 1st birth, with all interventions, drugs, assistance bar actually having a c-section because baby didn't follow a pre writen time schedule. This time round I've already put my foot down. I'm not a first time mum now, i will not be bullied into anything. I have my voice, my opinion will be heard, I will be forceful.

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I did a birth plan with my first...never even took it out of the hospital bag. My hospital and doctors are not typical though. They have always been concerned about the health of the baby and mom, over ease for them. I didn't even know about delayed cord clamping till I got to the hospital and the nurses told me they did it for EVERYONE and she explained the benefits. After doing more research after birth, I learned that is not normal for OB's to do regularly. Skin to skin was also an automatic thing and they were very pro breastfeeding, with lactation consultants coming in 1-2 times a day to check in and help if you needed it. I WAS induced, due to my daughter failing the stress test. I also had an epidural. I had a super smooth delivery, and my OB suggested I labor down. So after I was fully dilated, she told me to tell her when I felt I  needed to push and she would come back then. I only had to push for 20 minutes. My hospital also does the epidural on a drip system. So if I couldn't feel enough they turned it down, if I felt too much they turned it up. I was 100% coherent the entire time, my daughters vitals were perfect, and I had an amazing experience. I do not plan to do a birth plan this time around. As, like I said it never even left the hospital bag and my hospital and doctors already are concerned about what's best for you and baby not what's easiest for them. Again, most hospitals are not like this though. So I am super grateful that I have a great hospital team of doctors. Or hospital is also a non-profit and I think that makes a BIG impact on their care!

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Watched it. Loved it. Birth plan in place.

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It's a running joke in L&D that those with the longest birth plans end up in the OR for a c-section! I think they are important so you have an idea of what's going to happen and are able to research what things you do not want to have happen. It's always great to be prepared... Just know that things don't always go as planned! In the end the goal is healthy baby and healthy mom :-) Home births are nice, but sometimes things go wrong so I won't be giving birth in a bathtub at home like Ricki Lake. The hospital I'm going to has tubs, rain/waterfall showers and lots of ways to support natural labor, and I can also be around experienced doctors and a NICU if needed. Best of both worlds!

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I will leave it to my doctor to decide on what's best for me and baby. I will have a birth plan for if needed. I will also take whatever is recommended to make delivery easier and safer for the baby and I. I refuse to watch or read Anymore information that will only create more stress on me during my pregnancy. All those procedures you've mentioned have been around for ages, I trust that my doctor won't offer me something that will hurt my baby. There's way too much of this being bad for the baby and that being bad for the baby these days. It's overwhelming. These procedures wouldnt exists if all that were true ( stress to the baby). Remember you were probably born by one of these methods (epidural for example) and turned out fine.

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Have one!  Delivering it to my doc today. Let's see how annoyed she gets 😉

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Not going to have an actual plan as I am the type of person that if I have one, I will freak out if something doesn't go as I planned. I know and have discussed certain preferences with my doctor and am more than confident that she will do what is best for me and my baby.

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Birth plan ready.  Haven't turned it in yet. I know it's going to be a huge deal because I've decided to decline ALOT of normals and want things they probably won't be happy about lol

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We do! I suggest the Earth Mama Baby Angel free birth plan :) it covers a lot of things, from natural birth, pain management, and even cesareans.

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I will be telling my dr at my next appointment to watch it! & if he don't like it I'm not using him!!

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