Birth plan.....hmmmmm....

[Annie050408]

I have my 29 wk appt with the midwife on Tuesday and I suspect she may want to start talking birth plans but I just can't decide what sort of birth I want. I suspect my pain threshold will be low but as it's my first I just don't know how I'll do. The only thing I do know is that I don't want too many internal examinations.

 

[isobel84]

i find this hard too..
i will see what she has to say about it all..
but i think i would prefere it as natrual as possible and hopefully nothing else then gas and air. They dont do epidurals at the birthcentre anyway.

 

[Tasha89]

My midwife is a total waste of space. I get more help from here than I do from her!
She does her checks, gives me leaflets then i'm out the door. I've put a few bullet points together with my main wishes and added that if for any reason i'm unable to make decisions etc then I want my OH to make them for me as he knows what I want. It doesn't have to be a massive list

 

[serenitylove]

im a bit cynical about birth plans but that due to my previous experience and from being on this site i know it was not like that for 99% OF people but everything i so lovingly wrote when i had dd was out the window in seconds because of complications this time all mine will say is epidural and if for any reason as i have a feeling will happen i have csection it will be spinal block not ga if at all poss

 

[amyjayne77]

I've never made one. Always wanted to, but nothing about birth (well mine anyway) have been very predictable!!

My mw's have always said to me before things hot up " what have you thought on pain relief, 3rd stage, and daddy cutting the cord, skin 2 skin " and I've just told them there and then lol.

And I screamed for an epidural every time, just seconds before bubba's head popped out lol.

Although, maybe I should have made one this time. I KNEW, from my 2nd, that i go from having a posterior cervix to fully dilated within minutes. I think the mw's wouln't have been so shocked when Oscar flew at them as if from nowhere lol!!

 

[pinga]

I didn't really have one, except I did NOT want pethidine. That was my only rule. I actually asked for an epidural at one point but they said "nope sorry, you're too far gone..." so I did it all just using gas and air. I'm quite happy that I did it that way now. Hoping to do the same with this bub.

To be honest I hadn't actually packed a hospital bag when DS decided to show up early... so birth plan wasn't a big deal. You can just make it up as you go along if you like.