Ohh i've got a web plan somewhere that I found for it - let me go look where it is.

Basically you fill in loads of questions and it gives you your birth plan to print off - it covers everything

here's one clicky clicky

if you google "birth plan" it brings up quite a few.

Thank you kia i've just had a few thoughts recently and wondered how soon everyone else started planning

I didnt plan I just go with da flow...

So did you not state anything what you wanted just went with how you felt when it was actually happening? I'm not going to make a long one just a few points

Pretty much yes..... I never wrote anything down, all I wanted was shawn with me, thats all I really cared about... When its actually happening its alot differnt then u expect, I didnt want an epidural, but when hard labour hit I kept saying I wanted it, I didnt care about a lil prick in the back anymore...

I think i'll just tell whoever it is when I go to hospital that I only ant dom with me no other family, i'm going to breastfeed and to hold off pain relief for as long as poss and try to stick to gas and air

A lot of people don't but I sure will.

I have a lot of specifics that I do not want - I really really do not want un-needful medical intervention.

i'm the same as you kia I don't want pain relief unless it really does get unbearable, and really really don't want a c section unless it is absulutly neccessery because one of our lives is at risk

Here's mine I did.

Http://www.Kia-glitz.Com/birthplan.Txt

That was really helpfull kia thank you

I didn't have a plan at all. I just went in thinking i'd go with it and ask for an epidural when and if I needed one. I ended up with a c-section though after 14 hours of hard labor, there was no avoiding it.

I didn't have a plan either - I figured I would just go with the flow and see what happened. My intentions were to try without pain relief but once my contractions really kicked in I was glad of the gas and air and the pethidine. Still bloody hurt though!

same here.... And the ripping dosnt help the pain at all lol...

Gah, I was so happy once I saw reese thou, even thou I had a weird feeling down there cause the doc was stiching me up... Weirdest feeling ever!

Now y'see gas and air is like a major no-no for me.

It is the most disgusting foul stuff ever invented and i'm much happier to deal with the pain than taste that crap - which I decided tastes like eating your own vomit after a night on the cider

and then as well morphine does not help me with pain in the slightest, but it does make me do bright green projectile vomitting (the anti-emetic they like to give with it to stop you puking - makes me puke more).

Kia, demerol and phenergan would probably work for you. I don't think theyreally use gas very often in the .U.S. I don't know why but that just doesn't sound safe.

i hate pain relief opiates just don't agree with me at all.
I've used breathing and water as pain relief for many things including migraine and for the pain I was in when my uterus ruptured.

Which is why I know I want to be able to labour and give birth in water, I hate people near me, so I know I want as little medical intervention as possible.

And I know I do not want to be in a hospital bed on my back lol

i picture soft lighting, steve and my mom in there during the labour but just my mom when I give birth.
And we'll talk crap the whole time.
If I want further pain relief i'll take accupressure first.
I'm so used to background noise at home, that in a hospital or birth center it'd probably be too quiet so i'd take along someting like the "woman" cd or shakira, something that can be played low just to take the edge of the lack of normal noise.