What are your birth plans?

Question

For those of you who have a "birth plan" would you mind  commenting on it.    
My birth is still VERY much in limbo so I am kind of formulating a plan in the event of a csection and one in the event of a vaginal birth.

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Birth plan... 
Get 
This 
Baby 
Out. 😂

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This is my plan in the event that everything is within normal limits and there is no medical emergency 
I want delayed cord clamping 
The ability to walk/ freedom for movement
Freedom to choose birth position that is comfortable to me 
Preferred no drug / epidural
Immediate skin to skin
Delayed weighing etc to enjoy golden hour
No bath for baby (prefer to do it at home with me and husband ) 
Dad cuts chord 
No forceps , no vacuum 
No hep b shot
No eye goop 
No students
Ability to eat and drink 
Dim lights
Spontaneous birth start (prefer no induction)
I’ll also have my doula there

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I had some ideas of what to include but really after doing the birthing class and tour at our hospital , its really helped clear things up. Almost
 everything I wanted to include, the hospital already does as SOP. They also gave me a template to use that was very handy! I was told to be sure to go over it with my dr, and have her sign off on it prior to delivery. So we did that at the last visit and she added it to my file and sent a copy over to the hospital so its all ready to go 😁

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My birth plan is more a list of do nots for the doc. Vaginally: do not effing cut me!, let me labor naturally (no drugs to rush baby along for the drs convenience), I will not labor or push baby out on my back (goes against all science), no epidural, no catheter, no baby heart monitor (inaccurate, they want you to lay on your back at my towns hospital and leads to unnecessary medical interventions - they can come in and listen to baby periodically if they feel the need to), I do not prescribe to the “how quickly labor should be progressing” bs, delayed cord clamping (3-5 mins), immediate skin to skin
C-section only if absolutely medically necessary, delayed cord clamping, immediate skin to skin (if I’m having a medical emergency, baby is to go to daddy immediately for skin to skin)
I’ve hired a doula to advocate for me if the need arises and I am unable to catch them before they do something that is against my wishes. We opted for a birthing center too. Statistically the less drs in the building, the less unnecessary medical interventions done. Hoping to birth in a pool like with my first but if baby 2 comes too fast I won’t have a choice of course.

Answer

Get baby out safely. 
Preferably without an epidural. 
Our hospital has uninterrupted skin to skin the hour after birth. 
Breastfeeding 
No nursery (which our hospital is baby friendly so baby stays in the room the whole time unless they have to have a procedure like being circumcised)
No visitors while in the hospital (thankfully our hospital still has a limit on visitors)
I kinda went with the flow with my 1st because it was 2020. No classes were really offered and I couldn’t hire a doula because we could only have one support person and I wanted hubby there. I managed no epidural with my 1st but only because I couldn’t stay still after I caved and asked for it at 8cm. I only had IV meds and plan the same course of action with this baby as well. The epidural just makes me anxious because it has the same possible side effects as a spinal tap and I have experienced it and really don’t want to risk dealing with it while having a newborn/healing from childbirth.

What are your birth plans?

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