10 Steps to Craft Your Birth Plan

Pregnancy Podcast

Vanessa Merten

Newborn, Parent, Homebirth, Vbac, Kids & Family, Doula, Firsttimemom, Midwife, Pregnancy, Doctor, Parenting, Pregnant, Vanessamerten, Physician, Csection, Prenatalcare, Breastfeeding, Naturalbirth, Nursing, Birthcenter, Family, Baby, Hospitalbirth, Health, Obgyn, Research, Trimester, Expecting, Labor, Mom, Diet, Dad, Birth

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🗓️ 28 April 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

A birth plan is a document that outlines your preferences for labor and what happens directly following the birth of your baby. A birth plan is much more than a piece of paper you hand to your care provider. It is the process you go through to prepare for your desired birth experience. This process will lay the foundation for preparing you for the scenario in which everything goes exactly as planned and what should happen if things do not go as planned. The value of a birth plan has a lot more to do with the process of creating it than it does with the finished product. This simple process will empower you to navigate your labor and birth confidently.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the pregnancy podcast with Vanessa Merton.
0:07.0	Hello, thank you for tuning into the pregnancy podcast. In today's episode, we're talking
0:16.8	about crafting your birth plan. Your birth plan is a document that's going to outline
0:22.1	your preferences for labor and what happens directly
0:25.5	following the birth of your baby. But this is so much more than just a piece of paper that
0:30.8	you hand to your doctor midwife.
0:33.0	Crafting your birth plan is the process that you go through to prepare for the birth experience you want.
0:40.0	When it's done right, it's going to lay the foundation to prepare you for the scenario in which
0:44.6	everything goes exactly as planned, and for what should happen in the event things don't
0:50.5	go that way.
0:52.0	The value of a birth plan has so much more to do with the process of
0:55.7	creating it than it really does with the finished product. Following this simple
1:00.5	process that we're going to go through in today's episode will
1:03.9	empower you to confidently navigate your labor and birth. We're going to talk about
1:08.6	when in your pregnancy you need to be working on your birth plan. I'm going to go through 10 steps to create it. We're
1:15.6	going to talk about why you should have a backup plan and what alternative scenarios you
1:20.2	should plan for and I'm going to cover some frequently ask questions
1:24.4	that I get a lot having helped thousands of expecting parents create a birth
1:29.3	plan. You can find the complete article all of the resources for this episode a list of the
1:36.2	ten steps everything is at pregnancy podcast dot com slash plan you are currently listening to the public feed of the
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