No pitocin
If C-section is necessary I’d like to make sure all other options have been exhausted. My husband is to remain with me the entire time and for him to hold the baby as soon as possible, and I’d like to breastfeed in the recovery room.
I’d like to deliver the placenta without assistance from midwife when ready. Do not rush delivery.
I’d like to keep the placenta after removal. Please store in bags provided.
I'd like to hold my baby skin-to-skin immediately after delivery.
I’d like for my baby to stay in the same room with me, no nursery time.
I'd like to wait until the umbilical cord stops pulsating before it's clamped and cut and I’d like my husband to cut the cord.
If my baby must be taken from me to receive medical treatment, I'd like my husband to go with him or her.
I wish to birth in different positions as I see fit.
I plan to exclusively breastfeed my baby while in the hospital.
If my baby's a boy, I do not want him to be circumcised.
Pediatrician must examine baby in my room.
No bathing
No hat
No Vitamin K
No eye ointments
No hepatitis B vaccine
NO VACCINES PERIOD
that was pretty much my birth plan with all three of my kids. Jocelyn is the only birth that didn't go the way I planned (was supposed to be drug free at the birth center with a midwife, instead I was a hospital transfer with pitocin and a doctor I'd never met)
ReplyDeleteThat sounds frustrating. I was concerned because the midwives do a rotating on call shift. There are about five midwives that could have delivered my baby. I was happy that my regular midwife I was seeing was on call at the time I delivered my baby.
DeleteSounds like a good plan. I had one with my son. I don't think I did with my daughter. I just wanted her out of me so I could shower.
ReplyDeletehey LIndsey, I got your comment on my blog and I'd love to talk to you about the nipple shield. Can you email me at thethreejays@gmail.com ?
ReplyDeleteGreat birth plan. I hope that it went just as you planned.
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