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3rd Trimester
C-section birth plan for hospital stay?
I know that this may seem odd, but there are plenty of things to address following the delivery that a plan would help answer.
Have any of you recently made a c-section birth plan for the hospital team or your family to go by following the birth?
Specifically I don't want anyone other than my husband to hold or see our baby before I get to hold and bond with her. I've had c-sections with both of my other pregnancies and felt really upset by other people I know telling me how beautiful my baby was while I was in recovery and couldn't remember what the baby looked like from the 3 seconds I got to see him before being taken to the nursery.
What are some things that you asked for or wish you had?
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Re: C-section birth plan for hospital stay?
My two c/s have been non-emergency traumatic, so I have had made one this time. I'm appalled at what happened to me at my scheduled and during my failure to progress c/s.
My wish list is, assuming baby and I are healthy.
1. Spinal/epidural administered outside of operating room. ( This avoids the whole having to walk in, see all the instruments, having a crappy resident who can't get it in and feeling pressured to do g/a b/c operating room is all set for me. Dr's suggested this idea to me and have quickly approved).
1. 5.- Calm music will be played in operating room to muffle the gross noises.
1.6 - I will have a doula there to support me during the spinal administration, and surgery.
2. Hold baby up over curtain so I can view when born. Both of my sons I haven't seen for at least an hour after birth.
3. Husband announces gender.
4. If baby's apgars are above an 8, baby will be brought over to me while they are stitching me up and when my husband and I are ready to hand baby off, all the procedures can be done to it. I'm picturing about 5 -10 minutes of saying hi and looking at baby, then passing off.
5. Baby will be breastfed.
Clomid M/C 8 weeks 2/08 *IVF #1-DD born 3/09
*Surprise BFP-T18 baby lost at 13w 1/10 *FET #1-DS born 2/11
Thanks for the responses so far. I've got some good ideas for questions to bring up at my 34 week appt on Wednesday. This is the same OB as my last CS but it is a different hospital and my 2nd son decided for me to go into labor before my scheduled CS date so I STILL wasn't fully prepared. I was much younger and frankly just wasn't brave enough to ask questions to have things done how I would like at my last CS. My first CS was after failure to progress from induction and I was totally not prepared for what happened, so you other ladies reading make sure you have a back up plan!
It seems that a lot depends on hospital policy, recovery and rooming situations as far as where baby will be following surgery so that will be where I address my other questions. DH and I haven't been over to the hospital yet to check out things but plan to do it next week. I'm happy to know where I need to ask the questions to make a realistic plan instead of just making a plan without knowing if it is possible or who will be able to help me put it into action.
I just came home from all of my pre-op visits for my scheduled C-Section and the way our hospital does things is just what I want. I did not want anyone around during pre-op except DH. Our mothers are nice but they will just make me more nervous than I already am. When we report to the hospital we are put in a triage room for monitoring, blood work to be drawn, etc. I will go to OR to get set for surgery (epidural, etc) and then DH will join me. After LO is delivered DH & LO go to recovery to wait for me to get stitched up, etc- and both stay with me throughout recovery. Then I am transferred to a room and once we are settled and I am ready they will allow visitors in the room.
Now my only decision to discuss with DH is whether we let our DS (age 13 years) come in first and have a few minutes for him and his little brother before we let in grandparents, etc. I really think DS should be the first family person to hold his baby brother after DH & I.
I especially want this for my 2 sons. I think I'm going to have the boys go to school that day since we are not scheduled to start surgery until 12pm but since I know my mom is planning to be at the hospital the day of delivery I think I will have her pick them up from school and let them see baby sister 1st and then my mom can visit.
I don't have a birth plan for this c-section (baby #3). But my hospital must do things differently. With my 2nd (scheduled) the baby stayed with DH after he was cleaned up and observed and then he rode from the recovery room to my post partum room in my arms. No one else held the baby before me, except DH. But I guess I should confirm that this is the norm for a scheduled c-section just to make sure!
This is my 3rd c/s and with both previous my one wish is that no one could even come one the l/d floor until I was in my room holding the baby. DH calls or goes to retrieve waiting family members. I don't want anyone (other than DH) seeing my baby until I have spend time with him. Kinda mean, I guess, but its my surgery, my baby!
I was wondering how others with older children felt about the place of siblings in this. We will let DS stay home from school that day - I have already cleared it with the principal that this would be an excused absence and since it is the first day back after Christmas break I don't think they will be doing a lot. My surgery is set for 7:30am. Since I have to be at the hospital at 5:30am I will let him spend the night with one set of grandparents to bring him over to the hospital. I can't see having him sit in the waiting room from 5:30 to at least 9am by himself.