Susan and Sheryl Anderson
Birth Plan, Hospital Version
Attendant: Sally Holztman, M.D.
Hospital: Legacy Emanuel
People in room:
- Sheryl Anderson, Wife, No separation at any point
- Shawn Wright, Doula, Prefer no separation at any point
- Relatives, intermittently
Room:
- Lights dimmed
- Camera and Video
- Please KNOCK before entering the room
PLEASE, NO
- pain medication offered to me. (I will request it if I need it.)
- internal exams unless medically necessary
- If I need an IV, I want to use a heparin or saline lock
- Regional or local analgesia or anesthesia if I use drugs
- To be free to walk around and move as I choose during labor
- To be able to eat and drink during labor
- episiotomy offered to me unless I'm having a medical emergency
- time limits on pushing
- forceps (If medically necessary I prefer vacuum extraction over the use of forceps)
- Delivery positions: side-lying, squatting, hands and knees, standing upright, whatever feels right at the time
- to view the birth using a mirror
- to touch my baby's head as it crowns
- to push instinctively and not be told how or when to push
- to have the following birth equipment available to me: birthing bed, birthing chair, squatting bar, birthing pool/tub
- pacifiers, artifical nipples or formula offered to my baby
- to hold my baby immediately after birth
- to wait until the umbilical cord stops pulsating before it is clamped and cut
- to deliver the placenta unassisted
- to postpone newborn procedures until we have had a chance to bond with our baby
- to have my partner, Sheryl, cut the umbilical cord
- to breastfeed my baby immediately after birth