- Filling out questions about your birth plan (your name, doctor’s and other support person’s names, type of delivery wanted (vaginal or c-section), due date, etc.)
- You will also fill out other information about your plan
Benefits and Use of a Birth Planner
Are you excited about being pregnant? You may have been trying for years, or maybe it happened by surprise. Either way, pregnancy is such a delightful experience. Being able to bring a beautiful baby boy or girl into this world is exciting, joyful, and overall just a wonderful experience. With this being said, you want to be able to enjoy your labor and birth. Yes, it is possible to enjoy these parts of your pregnancy. If you want to enjoy your labor and birth, you will want to have a birth planner done ahead of time. Creating your birth plan ahead of time allows you to be more prepared for what you want during labor and delivery. There are many benefits of using a birth planner during your pregnancy before labor.
Birth Planner in Women's Health Tracker
Researching Birthing Goal Options
If you start working on your birth planner before you begin labor, you will have the time that you need to research different birthing goal options. For instance, you can find out about the different birthing positions that help to make labor and pushing easier. You can learn about pain management options, including epidural, pain medications, and natural pain management options, as well. There are so many different goals that you can have for your labor and delivery. Using the Women’s Health birth planner during your pregnancy can help you to make these goals for your labor and delivery.
Don’t Feel Like Talking
Just because you know what you would like to happen during your labor and delivery, that does not mean that when you get to that point of your pregnancy that you will walk to talk. Many mothers who are in labor and delivery won’t want to answer a bunch of questions. If you feel like this may happen for you, then it would be best to use a birth planner ahead of time. Creating your birth plan before labor will help if you don’t feel like talking during labor. You send a copy of your birth plan to the hospital, doctors, nurses, midwife, or whomever else will be helping out with your labor and delivery.
Making Sure Everyone is on the Same Page
Your birthing experience is just that - it is yours. It is important that you make sure you, your partner, your support person, your midwife, your doctor, and everyone else who will be participating in your birthing experience is on board with your birthing plan. If you make sure everyone is on the same page ahead of time, there will be no need to talk anyone into your plan last minute. You won’t even need to discuss it during labor unless there are issues that arise, because everyone will be on the same page before you head into the hospital for delivery.
Now that you know more about the many benefits of using a birth planner, you may need or want to know how to use this type of planner, as well.
How to Use a Birth Planner
Do you want to use the birth planner through Women’s Health Tracker? If so, it might be helpful to know how to fill out your birth plan. The things that you will need to do includes the following:
Some of the things that you will need to fill out in your plan include the following:
- whether you have gestational diabetes
- whether you have a high-risk pregnancy
- whether you have group B strep
- whether you and your baby are Rh incompatible,
- whether you want medications used or have a natural birth
- whether you want your water to naturally break or to have it broken
- whether you want music to play during labor
- whether you want to move around
- whether you want someone to coach you while you are pushing
- whether you want to have your own clothes or hospital gowns on during labor
- whether you want your baby to get a pacifier
- whether you are only breastfeeding or bottle-feeding (or both)
- And much more
The more detail that you put into your birthing plan, the fewer concerns there will be when you have your baby. It might also be in your best benefit to include a plan b. This would be a plan, in case there are any issues during your labor. For instance, what would you want to do if baby isn’t dropping? If there is time, would you like to try different positions, taking a warm jacuzzi bath, etc?
These are some of the many things that you may want to include in your birth planner. You may also want to include who is allowed in the room with you when you are going through the labor process or giving birth.
Conclusion
The process of filling out a birthing planner can take quite a bit of time. However, if you start thinking about it earlier on in your pregnancy, you will have the time you need to make your labor and delivery goals. You will have the time that you need to research differing labor and birthing methods, as well.
Everyone experiences labor and delivery in their own way. Even if you have been pregnant and delivered a baby before, that does not mean that this pregnancy, labor, and delivery is going to happen in the same way. For instance, you may have had pain medications during your previous labor, but you don’t want them this time or vice versa. This is just one of the many things that change from birth to birth and from woman to woman when giving birth.
Remember, it is your pregnancy and your birthing experience. By using the birth planner from Women’s Health Tracker, you can individualize your birthing experience. You can make a plan to make your birthing experience meet your goals, wants, and needs for labor and delivery.
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