Emergency Birth Plan?
So with all the chatter about birth plans this got me thinking about whether or not I should do one and what it should include. Right now I'm planning on a water birth with my midwife at a freestanding birth center with my husband as support (I was considering a doula but that's not going to work out so... alas). I'm usually a nutty planner, but something about pregnancy makes me spacey in the head and la-di-dah about everything. With my first I was induced with all the medical interventions that come with it - epidurals, monitoring, etc. This time I'm doing the complete opposite where I won't even have access to medication.
Obviously I should plan for the worst and hope for the best. Chances are, with my pregnancy being very easy and my last L&D being easy, I don't expect complications. However, nothing is 100% and it happens. If that does happen my midwife has a procedure for midwife-to-midwife transfers at the nearby hospital (and she keeps everything on hand that an ambulance would have). On one hand I think, why do a birth plan? If I have to be transferred, clearly there is a problem and the hospital will have to do what it needs to do to make sure this kid shows up all right and I can't plan for every eventuality and what I would want done. On the other, I've seen the list of reasons why she might recommend a transfer and not all of them would be "c-section" worthy - they might just need more monitoring or there might need to be some kind of specialist nearby or something and so I should have some kind of plan like "don't snip, let me tear".
Anyone have any experience with this or suggestions?
Obviously I should plan for the worst and hope for the best. Chances are, with my pregnancy being very easy and my last L&D being easy, I don't expect complications. However, nothing is 100% and it happens. If that does happen my midwife has a procedure for midwife-to-midwife transfers at the nearby hospital (and she keeps everything on hand that an ambulance would have). On one hand I think, why do a birth plan? If I have to be transferred, clearly there is a problem and the hospital will have to do what it needs to do to make sure this kid shows up all right and I can't plan for every eventuality and what I would want done. On the other, I've seen the list of reasons why she might recommend a transfer and not all of them would be "c-section" worthy - they might just need more monitoring or there might need to be some kind of specialist nearby or something and so I should have some kind of plan like "don't snip, let me tear".
Anyone have any experience with this or suggestions?