My Birth Wishes | a visual birth plan

Birth plan
You may have read my post last week about birth plans, were they helpful or are they just for controlling woman? Well my opinions changed majorly between pregnancies. This time I've already got mine down on paper ready to fax through to the OB who hasn't even excepted to take me on yet... Hahaha hopeful I know! 


I know that I may not be able to achieve each of these requests but I would love for my birth companion and support team to stand by me and respect these wishes. 

I created this visual birth plan with an app called My Birth Wishes. Which I downloaded via the apple store. 

Birth Plans | useful or a controlling woman

Birth plan
I thought birth plans were just for those obsessed woman who try to control every aspect of their labour and birth. Full of unrealistic preferences! 
Well I couldn't be more wrong, the amount of birth plans I have read since educating myself about birth labour and especially vbacs; has now showed me how useful a birth plan can be. 

Visual birth plan : 
Here is an example of a quick easy to read visual birth plan. There are websites that you can create these on and there are millions of samples in google images such as this one. 


Work out what you do and don't want for yourself and your baby. This will be easier for your second birth as you know a little about what you didn't enjoy last time. Create a birth plan which yourself, your support team and the hospital are all agreeable on and have a poster in your labour room. (: 

Once I create my birth plan I will share it with you all. Here are aome of the things I will be including. 
Free movement
Minimal VEs (vaginal examinations) 
Calm environment with dimmed lighting
No students or interns
Food and Drink over IV
Immediate skin to skin
Exclusively Breastfed 

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