As some of you know oxsarahxo sadly lost her baby girl Jessica Charlotte Reay hours after giving birth. We are arranging a star to be named after Jessica and a lantern for her resting place from all of us. We also thought it would be nice to make a contribution to Sarah & Matt so they can use it towards flower arrangements, head stone or resting place arrangements. If you would like to contibute please PM me for details. Wobbles (oxsarahxo cannot see this message - Please do not discuss this on the forum) | Welcome to BabyandBump's Pregnancy - Third Trimester Forum - 27 weeks > Birth - Worried about the birth? Wondering about pain relief? Share your worries and expectations here on the final 3 months of your magical journey. This thread is called 'Birth plan question' and is in our Pregnancy Forums section. | 
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Hiya do you get given a birth plan and you fill it out or make your own up??
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I'm Currently Feeling: | All places do it differently. If you want one, write it down and slip it in your folder, then if the midwife wants to make one with you, you guys just have to copy the one you've already done! |
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I'm Currently Feeling:  | My notes have got a birth plan section in them but the MW hasn't got round to doing that bit yet. Not sure if she will. I'll probably do one from an online template anyway, because the notes I have from MW don't look like you can put a lot of detail in them.
Think everywhere is different though! Probably wouldn't hurt to do one yourself if you know exactly what you do/don't want.
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I'm Currently Feeling:  | If you look through the threads here, I think it was PitBullMommy who posted a link to a great website that she said was a huge help in writing out her birthplan. |
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I'm Currently Feeling:  | I spent ages planning what was going in to my birth plan, but never got round to it. In the end I did it as I was having contractions, it was an A5 sheet of paper with about 8 bullet points on it. Keep it short and simple. |
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| With my first I did a detailed birth plan, but he was 4 weeks early, I ended up on continuous monitoring and nothng went to plan.
As a result I didn't bother with a plan and just went with it as labour progressed.
With my 3rd had a diff mw and as I had chronic spd and the consultant was planning on inducing me @ 37 weeks, she sat with me and did a plan @ 6 weeks. TBH I don't think it was consulted @ all.
My advice would be if you have definite ideas about how you would like the labour @ delivery to be write them down and ensure your birth partner knows what you want as they will often be your spokesperson in labour.
BUT be prepared to be flexible and make sure your partner is aware you may change your mind in labour. You may ve adamant you don't want pain reief for eg, but in reality you may change your mind and the last thing you want is partner trying to stop you having it 'cos thats whats in your birth plan. |
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I'm Currently Feeling:  | Here's the link I used to make mine. It has the sections and you just check what is important to you..and it writes it up! http://www.happyhealthypregnancy.com...nockcheck=true |
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