30 weeks pregnant: My birth plan

Hi Michelle,

Despite what it might sound like to you, I do not think that births are horrible. I'm not preparing myself for the worst either. While I respect your opinion on an epidural, I'm sure you respect mine on having one. I admire those that have a natural birth and I think it's great. It's just not something that I envision for myself.

I'll be the first to tell you that I want the epidural and I know that the birth will still be a beautiful one even with it. I'm pretty sure that the "horror" stories associated with having an epi can also be seen with going natural. I've heard a lot about scary thing happening there too. I do not plan on being so drugged up throughout the whole thing that I don't know what's going on or do not remember. But, I do plan on having drugs to make it easier for me.

To each its own, I suppose. Thanks for your comment!

You should really watch a documentary " The Business of Being Born". Very informative and eye-opening. Not all births are horrible. It's the fear that makes labor so painful, so if you prepare yourself you can have a peaceful, beautiful birth that doesn't include drugs. Why go through a whole pregnancy trying to protect your growing baby, and then when it's time to meet the little guy we pump them full of drugs and a harsh augmented birth.

me too! me too!

I loved this, sounds good to me too! I'm also 30 weeks pregnant and have a blog, have enjoyed yours immensely, especially the frankness!!

Congrats on hitting the 30 week point- I remember that week seemed really momentous for me...now I'm about to hit 38 weeks tomorrow! We're getting sooo excited. I actually have a full birth plan thing printed off, but yours made me laugh so hard! I'm actually hoping to go without an epidural (to each her own!!) and the most important thing to me is that I am able to get up and move around etc. so I hope that will work out that way. But I know because I've been told to not be surprised if things don't go as planned!!

Love it! Sounds so much like what I have in mind. Drugs, drugs, drugs! Hooray for drugs!

Maybe I'm strange but the epidural was the LAST thing I wanted. There was no way I was going to let anyone come at me with the needle that looked like it was meant for a horse or some other large farm animal. The pain of giving birth was no picnic but it only lasted for a short time (in the scope of the whole experience) I agree with the champagne part though!

Now THAT'S a birth plan!!

Congrats =)
Mary

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Oh yes...and congrats....you are almost there!!

You should also update your birthplan to say at what point you want the epidural. Do you want to feel any contractions at all or do you want to feel them until you are a certain cm dilated?

Hooray!!! I would just make sure that when you get the epidural that they don't pump too much meds through it. You want it to dull the pain, not make you numb. I had an epidural with my first and they gave me more meds than I needed and I was numb from the waist down. Couldn't feel to push and the baby ended up having to be pulled out because I could not push (I tried, but physically could not because they gave me too much meds in the epidural). Don't let that scare you though, I had an epidural with my second as well and just paid attention to how I was feeling and they adjusted the meds accordingly and I had an easy, relatively pain-free birth. Epidurals are wonderful!!!

Congrats on the baby! The next ten weeks will go by very quickly. :)

Excellent! The most important thing on mine was:

What I say is law and I should not have to repeat myself!!

30 weeks... very exciting.

That is my birthplan too!