Last night's class was on how to create a Birth Plan, or how to write down your birth preferences for your midwife/doctor and hospital staff. Things to include on it are subjects such as: IV (whether you want an IV or a heploc that allows you to move around), fetal monitoring (continuous or intermittent), what you plan to wear during the delivery (hospital gown or your own), medication, ability to walk around, getting in tub, who will cut the cord, medication for the baby post delivery, when the baby will be bathed, and circumcision. Basically you can write down anything that is important to you. Laura recommended keeping it to one page.
One thing that we took from the class was that the baby has about a two hour window of alertness immediately after he is born, so that's why many people choose to just hold the baby during this time. I noticed in some of the sample birth plans that a lot of people ask to delay the eye drops, vitamin K shot, and the first bath for a couple of hours so that they can just bond with the baby.
Another point Laura made last night was that you should create a list of your preferences, but don't get upset if the delivery doesn't go exactly the way you planned it...because it probably won't. This fits with next week's topic of "Variations and Complications" in which will discuss how to cope if things don't go the way you have planned.
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I am so happy for you both! You were just glowing Saturday. It was great to see you. Baby "Jake" (haha) is a very blessed little guy to have you both as parents.
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