Re: Birth Plan…
my prenatal nurse told me to put it in point form and only have 5 or 6 points. nurses don’t generally have time to spend ages poring over a word document, you know?
i had the following:
- Want epidural as soon as possible please!
- Delay the vitamin k shot/eye drops for 45 minutes so we can have some time with our baby immediately following the birth
- Personal support persons in labor & delivery: only my mom and my husband
- Prefer not to have episiotomy unless absolutely necessary
- Would like to be able to change position as labour progresses, if possible
- Dad does not want to cut umbilical cord
- Arrange circumcision if baby is a boy
also in your plan, if you go with epi, then i think that rules out a waterbirth. they wont let you go in the water with an epi since you’re so completely numb and unable to move yourself around. and since water is considered pain relief on its own, i’m pretty sure its one or the other, so you might want to choose.
as for male nurses and docs… i dunno, hon. they’re looking at you like a patient, not anything lurid or weird. i know where i gave birth, the only guy was the OB, all the nurses were ladies and i think generally most l & d nurses are female but i wouldn’t put it in there because i’d want whomever is the best to be available to me, regardless of their gender. i don’t want to be missing out on excellent care just because its a he and not a she.
as far as monitoring goes, once the epi is in, you can’t move anyway, so the wireless bit doesn’t apply. you could ask for a walking epidural which, i believe, is a much lighter dose, but that of course comes with the trade off of feeling pain.
everything else looks great!
its coming up so fast now!!! 