24 Birth Plan
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This article is from the Birth Planning FAQ, by wnymph@FensEnde.com (Sabrina Cuddy) with numerous contributions by others.
24 Birth Plan
: My own thoughts on sample birth plans is that I wouldn't recommend
: including them in a FAQ. Once you, as a pregnant woman, have
I found reading other people's birth plans very helpful in writing my own.
I don't think any of the plans I wrote were not true to me.
For example, I hadn't thought much about preferences if I had a c. My
midwife has a low c-section rate, and the hospital I plan to deliver at
isn't that much higher (less than half the national average). By reading
someone else's birth plan, I began to think about what my options were
under this eventuality, and put in a brief section on c's.
Or another example: I had lots of stuff in my first birth plan about
labor and delivery, but much less on post-partum and recovery care, or on
baby care. If I had read other people's birth plans, I would have thought
to include more on these areas.
Perhaps the best thing would be for someone to write the plan on her own,
and then read other people's plans, for additional ideas and options.
Then she could amend her plan if she wants, based on the new knowledge
she may have gained.
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