Posts tagged Birth Plan

This May Turn Ranty

March 17, 2008 · Filed under Birth, Labor, Pregnancy · Tagged , , ,

It’s nearly 2am and I cannot sleep thanks to a comment made about MY birth plan. At the time that the comment was made I said thanks and just chose to ignore the ‘advise’. But after having a few days to think about it, it has really irritated me. Too many times in the past have I let people tell me what I should and shouldn’t do. Too many times have I laid down and not questioned their logic or researched for myself. That’s not me anymore. I have deleted the comment now as I feel having such a negative thing on my blog is no good for me, but I will write about my own feelings on this persons comments…

  • Whether it is viewed as negative or positive should not be the concern of anyone but myself. I actually think that my birth plan is very positive compared to the one I made previously and I find it very ironic that a lot of the information on my birth plan is from a site that has been recommended by midwives!
  • If I do not want an episiotomy then I shall put down that I do not want an episiotomy. I do have plans on avoiding tearing which I shall fully impliment at the time. It is very unlikely that I will continue to refuse being cut if it is desperately needed!
  • Vitamin K oral may not be absorbed so well if the mother herself has low vitamin K levels. I will be taking supplements myself that shall be passed on through my breastmilk. The fact that I am allowing them to give my baby vit K at all should be good enough considering that I shall be non-vaxing.
  • What I do or not need in my birth plan is up to me.
  • How I birth my baby is up to me. Telling me that I might not be able to catch my own baby because of my own incapabilities does not help.
  • It’s all very well giving me information that has been copied and pasted from a site regulary attended by midwives but where is the rest of the information? I have visited the site where I found the option of my husband catching our baby and emailed them to find out their thoughts. I have also emailed midwives to find out about the loopholes.

I have my own midwife (fully qualified and experienced) who I trust completely to let me know what is or isn’t possible.

So, I’d advise those people who think they’re helping to just leave it. If there is something that cannot be done I will find out about it myself. Thanks for trying.

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One Of Those Days!

March 8, 2008 · Filed under Birth, Pregnancy · Tagged , , , ,

I thinking I’m getting to that stage in pregnancy when you start wishing the weeks away! Everything seems so much more difficult now. A 45 minute walk around Abergavenny and 1 hour in the (very quiet thanks to the rugby) supermarket had me lying on the sofa for the rest of the afternoon. It started with my stomach muscles getting pulled from sneezing and coughing then walking for less than two hours and packing our groceries made it all worse. We got home, put Skylar out the back & I put away the shopping. As it’s been raining non-stop today Sky was soaked so I picked up some towels to dry her off and started to make my way to let her in. OUCH! My stomach muscles cramped up because of baby deciding to lean right up against them and I couldn’t move! And baby decided s/he was comfortable and stayed there for the rest of the afternoon! I’ve tried lying on my left side, nope. Tried the right side, nope. Lay on my back, nope! S/he is moving a lot though and it’s lovely having that feeling. I haven’t had to do the kick count thing at all because I can almost always feel him/her having a little stretch or a manic twisting session. I was getting kicked in the ribs a couple of nights ago, very strange feeling that was! I had to change positions to get him/her to stop so I could sleep!

Jeff’s been great as usual, he made me food and cuppas and fed the animals and hasn’t grumbled about me lying around.

Since I’ve had time I re-did my birth plan. I did have it in bullet-mark form but thought it wasn’t comprehensive enough. So now it’s properly paragraphed and I’ve taken a lot of tips from a homebirthing website. I’ve also stated that, if I haven’t started labour by 42 weeks then I consent to be induced. No sooner than that and I’m hoping beyond hope baby comes before anything that drastic has to happen. So little babe, you have until May Day to make your natural entrance! Oh please, please, please little one, arrive before then!

 Just to add… baby is still in the same painful position but having fun in there by the feel of it so I’m just going to lie back and take it… for now!

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