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Has anyone started their birth plan?
Has anyone started their birth plan? I don't even know where to begin. One of the books I have has an outline but it seems insanely long. On a side note it says to specify if you want to have a routine enema?!? I didn't even know this was a common practice, but it does sound better than risking pooping during delivery
Any advice/thoughts?
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Re: Has anyone started their birth plan?
I printed the plan from here and answered all the questions. I choose enema! I think i'd rather not take the chance.
Mine would be 3 sentences, or better yet statements:
My mother is not allowed in the room now matter what bullsh*t she tells you.
Any medical students are allowed if they want. I believe in learning by seeing
Drugs, drugs and more drugs. Epidurals for everyone in the room, just put it on my tab!
I'm not scared about defecating on the table. I highly doubt I'll be the first woman, or the last, to have a BM while giving birth. I've also read that your body may naturally clean you out by having diarrhea a few days before going into labor. Regardless, that's my last worry.
About the birth plan: Mine is very, very basic. I think it only has that I want LO to room in with me, donate cord blood, and no one in the room except DH.
About the enema: I had an enema once and, let me tell you, it was not fun. My midwife said a #2 doesn't even phase her b/c it's so common. The enema, however, would be awful at that particular time, I'd think.
I with you!! I pretty much went with the flow of things with DD. The last thing on my mind was pooping on the table. At the end you just want it to be over so bad you dont care about anything else. And about cleaning you out naturally, the last 1-2 months of my pregnancy with DD, i would have simultanious vomiting/diarreah at least 2 nights a week. Thank God our sink and toilette were right next to each other. If it happens this time, I will be screwed-our sink is like 3 ft from the toilette...lol
For the ladies considering an enema, I don't want to sound rude but give yourself one now to see what it's like. It may change your mind. I had to have one for surgery a few years ago and there's nothing worse than crying on the toilet because you can't stop pooping. They can also make you very, very dehydrated so make sure you are on an IV before getting it.
Oh, and once you are on the IV, make sure you know how to move the IV pole & pump in and out of the bathroom.
I just read a sample on birthplan.com. JMO, but a little excessive. I'll ask my Doc if he wants a birthing plan. He is already aware that I'm a "go with the flow" woman and do what ever is medically necessary for our health.
As I said, as long as my mother isn't in the room everything will be fine.
EPIDURAL
That's about it.
Our preadmission forms have a lot of the info included in basic birth plans so we likely won't get more detailed than that. I'll probably use the bump and other places as a reference for things I haven't thought of.
Add me to the not so worried about defecating camp. I won't be down there to see it and DH has seen a lot worse through his job. We've been together long enough that stuff that would have embarrased us as newlyweds doesn't phase us anymore.
https://www.babycenter.com/calculators-birthplan
Check that out.
My advice is to do what you just did - get a list of some of the popular and/or lengthy birth plans and then start researching the options that are listed.
You may find out that you don't really care about many of the options but have specific desires about a few topics. (e.g. the pp who has a short birth plan but explicitly does not want her mother in the room.)
Or, you might find out that you have an opinion on a lot of the options available to you. But do your homework - many of the options available to you can end up being contradictory to each other and you don't want to give your Dr./nurses conflicting information.
Good Luck!
my only plan is to go into the hospital and come home with a healthy baby. i think planning any further than that is setting myself up for failure. I don't want to have my heart set on things going a certain way and then having to readjust in the heat of the moment. Whatever the doctors need to do, they should do. That's why i'm going to the hospital and not giving birth at home in the bathtub!
My thoughts exactly!
I didn't do one with DD#1 and I won't be doing one this time either.
And I don't think enemas are routine, or at least they aren't around here.
My hospital didn't ask for one-they end up asking you a crap load of questions anyway.
Mine went like this: get baby out healthy, epidural would be nice, and no pacis/formula.
That was it. Everything else you can tell them directly. Don't make it long if you make one. I figure more than a page and they wont read it.