Ever since i found out exactly how far i was on my first scan, ive had weekly emails to my phone come from various websites such as; hipp, cow and gate etc. Bacially underlining mine and the babies progress that week. What i should be eating, feeling.. how big he is etc. It normally varies site to site (im guessing they dont all follow the same guidelines to the letter) but this week.. they have all said 'have you written your birth plan?'.
In all honesty? I havent. We dont live in the dark ages, i like to think im pretty clued up about labour and childbirth.. i mean, i WAS my sisters birth partner. So yeah, you can attend all these fancy classes.. you can write down what you want and how you want it inch for inch. But i prefer to be abit ignorant about it. In my opinion, you accept whatever pain relief that you personally need to get you through it, its not a competition! No birth is the same. You never know how you will cope, whether your pain threshhold be high or low. Sure, we'd all like to cope fine, have that amazing natural birth.. but its not always possible.
But... as im considered a low risk pregnancy, i would really like to try waterbirth if one of the birthing pools are available on the day, and given that i dont have to have a bedbound induction obviously. I would also like to go home asap providing me and the baby are both okay and im feeling upto it.
Cutting the cord will be spur of the moment thing, i keep telling Craig that they can do it.. but he says we'll see! Erghh.. & whether he will be at the top of the bottom of the bed , is again spur of the moment, though after watching some birthing videos with me he has stated he will probs stay at the top.. hehe! (though having seen it myself its the weirdest yet amazing experience ever)
I say now i dont want gas and air or anything that will make me feel out of it, but tbh that rules pretty much everything out so we will see haha! Knowing my luck i will be begging for them to give me everything, epidural the lot!
In all honesty? I havent. We dont live in the dark ages, i like to think im pretty clued up about labour and childbirth.. i mean, i WAS my sisters birth partner. So yeah, you can attend all these fancy classes.. you can write down what you want and how you want it inch for inch. But i prefer to be abit ignorant about it. In my opinion, you accept whatever pain relief that you personally need to get you through it, its not a competition! No birth is the same. You never know how you will cope, whether your pain threshhold be high or low. Sure, we'd all like to cope fine, have that amazing natural birth.. but its not always possible.
But... as im considered a low risk pregnancy, i would really like to try waterbirth if one of the birthing pools are available on the day, and given that i dont have to have a bedbound induction obviously. I would also like to go home asap providing me and the baby are both okay and im feeling upto it.
Cutting the cord will be spur of the moment thing, i keep telling Craig that they can do it.. but he says we'll see! Erghh.. & whether he will be at the top of the bottom of the bed , is again spur of the moment, though after watching some birthing videos with me he has stated he will probs stay at the top.. hehe! (though having seen it myself its the weirdest yet amazing experience ever)
I say now i dont want gas and air or anything that will make me feel out of it, but tbh that rules pretty much everything out so we will see haha! Knowing my luck i will be begging for them to give me everything, epidural the lot!
