The Truth About Birth Plans...

I encourage all my clients to make a birth plan, and I help them with it too. They're a great way to go through all your options and work out what you want and what's best for you.

BUT... It's not as simple as finding a template then just filling it out. There's so much more to it than that.

The truth is, if you haven't done the work (learning about birth; a course, reading, research, finding birth support. on yourself; connecting with your intuition, fears, beliefs, healing; getting to know - understand - accept - trust yourself, building confidence in yourself, your body and intuition, I could go on and on lol you get the jist)

… then your birth plan isn’t going to be meaningful. It will just be a tickbox exercise.

Making a birth plan is the end result of a hell of a lot of work

and if you haven’t done that work, then how can you make a birth plan? how will it be reflective of your true needs and wants? how will you be making informed decisions?

how can you know what pain relief you want if you don’t know the risks and benefits of them - to you and your baby?

how can you know what kind of environment you want to support your physiological birth if you don’t understand physiological birth?

how can you make an informed decision on if/when you’d want any interventions if you don’t know what the procedures are or the evidence, risks and benefits…

how can make decisions on cord clamping, vitamin K, skin to skin, and breastfeeding, if you don’t know the benefits and risks?

And if you don't know yourself and what kind of support you need, if you don't trust yourself and your capabilities and your needs... Then how is your birth plan going to work? How is it going to be useful?

Your birth plan needs to be full of informed choices. And it needs to be reflective of your true needs.

Want to make a birth plan but don't know where to start? Book a birth plan session with me! We'll go through my birth plan template step by step and work out what you really want and I'll type it all up for you and send it over! This can be booked on its own or alongside my hypnobirthing course - book here!

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