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Birthing Plan

kimellen11kimellen11
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Does anyone have a copy of their birthing plan?
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Re: Birthing Plan

  • SethandSaraSethandSara member
    Use the template from www.babycenter.com. There's is pretty good. I think The Bump has one too although I don't have the link.
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  • lil_mama_jenlil_mama_jen
    I printed the one off of my bump checklist.  Still have to fill it out :)
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  • thetwistedwillowthetwistedwillow member
    Yes, I do. Why do you ask?
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  • ladyalmalthealadyalmalthea

    One or two pages, make it short sentences that are consise and to the point. Nurses will not want to read 8 pages of demands.

    Use the Bump version to find out what is really important, like no bottles or pacifiers if you are wanting to breastfeed, and then make your short list detailing exactly what you want. And don't expect to be able to follow everything to the letter- childbirth is unpredictable.

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  • ehicksehicks member

    There honestly is a lot of info on this online. If you google the subject you'll come up with many templates to use.

    My doctor gave me one on the first day we met, and told me to keep glancing at it the further I got along, as I became more comfortable with baby and what our needs will be.

    I will then take it into her soon and we will talk about it together.

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    I used the one she gave me, the one on here, and a random one I Googled. They're all basically the same info. You just fill in what fits best for you.?

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  • flyer23flyer23 member

    Two really good blog posts on writing a birth plan, from an L&D nurse:

    https://tinyurl.com/ygcg9e4

    https://tinyurl.com/yh6kmqc

    In the second post, she specifically warns against using the all-purpose checklists available on the Internet:

    "In my humble opinion (regarding birth plans), there is nothing more frustrating for a nurse (and nothing more detrimental to a nurse?s overall attitude and view of birth plans) than to have a patient just copy and paste a general, ?all-purpose? birth plan off the internet, check the boxes that ?sound good?, and pass it in to a nurse with her name typed in at the top."

    I can't find the one that I wrote for DD, but it was very short, about half a page. Reason being, I had already discussed my preferences ahead of time with my OB and knew what was normally done at my hospital and what was not. So, for example, there was no point in putting in my birth plan that I wanted clear liquids during labor, as that was standard procedure at my hospital.

    So my birth plan consisted only of things that might be a little out of the ordinary, such as not wanting pain medications and wanting as much freedom of movement as possible.

    Mommy to DD1 (June 2007), DS (January 2010), DD2 (July 2012), and The Next One (EDD 3/31/2015)

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