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Please prepare a birth plan for a woman having her first baby.
Think about what is IMPORTANT to you and your family. What is the most important, what is not so important,
and prepare a birth plan suitable for placing onto the chart.
Be prepared to discuss and / or defend your plan in class.
You may pick one other class mate to work with. If 2 are working together, let me know who you are.
A birth plan for first baby guide us about how your labor goes. There is so much anxiety, confusion toward first time baby delivery, fear about birth complications.
First you should take an appointment with expert obsterician and take proper guidance and advice about birth plan. The doctor will prescribe some diagnostic test, blood tests, hemoglobin level etc. Also they will assess baby position, presentation, baby position via Leopold manuver assessment.
They also find confirming baby 's presentation by ultrasound examination.
After examinations obsterician assess the condition that baby delivery should be prefer for vaginally or caesarian section.
She also advise and provide a proper guidance and couselling to pregnant women, her family members about birth plan, clear all doubts and help in making good birth plan for their baby.
A birth planning is important for first time baby birth to prevent any birth complications and for happy and healthy delivery. It guide us about best delivery points, best facilities according to patients conditions, It aware us and also aware to know for expected time for delivery. We can better plan or mange vehicle facilities also after birth plan advice.
BIRTH PLAN CHART
1.YOUR NAME.............. YOUR DUE DATE..........
2. Where do you plan to give birth to your baby?
Name of place Doctor /midwife name
Address....
3. Support person name........
Phone number.......
Present during birth...... Yes or no
Realtionship with you......
4.Pain management -
- Do you need pain medication......... Yes or no
- You Need alternate measures for pain medication..... Yes or no L
5. Labor -
- I would like to move arround.
- I would like to coaching when and how push my baby.
- I would like to be choose the position I deliver in.
- I would like to wear my own clothes.
6- Offer me -
- Birthing ball / tub or birthing stool or chair
7 - I would prefer fetal monitoring to be....
- continues, intermittent
8 - If I have cesarian section, I would like to...
- To view the birth
- My arm free and skin to skin immediately in the operating room.
9 - I would like to dalay cord clamping until -
-............... Minutes have passed
The cord stops pulsating
10 - Postpartum -
- I would like skin to skin contact immediately after delivery.
- I would like to be asked before a pacifier or formula is given to my baby.
11 - I plan to.....
- Exclusive breast feeding
- Combination feed
- Exclusively formula feed while in hospital
12 - I would like to breastfeeding to my baby as soon as after birth.
- I would like to all medical procedures, baths, to be done in my presence.
13 - I would like my baby to -
- Stay in room with me
- All procedure, medication, should be well explained me before done.
Thank you very much