05/19/2025
Have you heard of a birth plan? Are you wondering how to make one and how it can help your birth? Well, we got you!
Craft your plan to what’s important to you. it should encompass your vision, wishes, and preferences for your labor and delivery, immediate care after birth and newborn care.
Tips:
- Keep it to one page.
- Bullet points are best, avoid long paragraphs.
- List who will be there and their roles.
- Create one for a home/birth center and a hospital birth.
- List the most important things to you, but be flexible.
- Include comfort measures such as counter pressure, music or quiet, cool and warm washrags, birth pool, shower, birth ball, walking, massage, low lights, verbal encouragement, Robozo, TENS, food, etc.
- Preferred positions preferred for labor and birth.
- Even if you plan on an epidural or a cesarean section, you can still make a birth plan.
- Advocate for newborn optimal delayed cord clamping.
- Included newborn skin-to-skin, list medication choices, feeding preference.
- Placental preference - do you want to encapsulate it or do you prefer not to.
It’s important to remember that a flexible birth plan helps to set you up for a positive birth experience. Talk to your provider and support team about your preferences and their role in supporting you and the experience you desire. Birth plans can help you get on the same page with your birthing team.
In our practice, we work with each client and discuss their individual preferences for how they want their labor and birth to go. Communication is key to a positive birth experience.
We’ll soon have some birth plan samples on our website so stay tuned. Happy Birthing Day!!
