Birthing plan

I am open to any but my first choice would be gas and air. I am also going to have a tens machine . If needed I will have an epidural but that would be a last resort. Xx

Nothing, like the last 3 times x

I have bought a tens machine and I’m sure will have gas and air too, I’m going to try for a water birth if all goes well so epidural wouldn’t be possible with that and I think they tend to not like to give pethedine when you’re in the water either, but that being said it’s my first so I’m playing the wait and see game, if I’m horrific pain and feel like I can’t cope then I’m open to epidural if needs be I think it’s so hard to ‘plan’ the unknown but let’s see 😊

I'm being pretty flexible I think. I'd like to say I'll have as little pain relief as possible but I just have no idea until I get there. As long as there's a healthy baby at the end I'm happy to go with the flow (within reason) x

I'm going with the flow too, having never done it before I just have no idea what I'll cope with! I'm quite scared of pain, so thinking of a light epidural providing I can still move around with it.

I live in the Netherlands and they don’t do gas and air! I was horrified when I moved here and found out!!! I plan for water birth and pethidine if needed. Epidural if I really need but would try and draw on my hypnobirthing skills I’ve been practising! 😚 who knows though!

I'm going with the flow, but would like to avoid pethidine if I can help it! I read, and been told by my mummy friends, it can make baby quite sleepy and not latch on very well x

Thank you! I wasn't aware of that! X

I’d love to stay as natural as possible, coping on just gas and air; but I can imagine once I’m there I’ll be screaming for all the drugs! Ideally I’d love a nice, quick and easy Labour, but I’m not that lucky 😂

I’m due within the next month and thinking gas and air and pethadine as a back up too! I will be open to an epidural but want to try and avoid it as I want to stay on the maternity led Unit rather going onto the labour ward as that scares me in itself 😅🙈 starting to feel quite anxious about the pain and whether I’ll be able to cope and how my birth is going to be! xx

I have NO plan 😂I’m gonna take it hour by hour on a red amber green scale. If things start creeping up from amber I’ll be asking for pain relief x

I’m opting for gas and air and then an epidural once I can have it. Declining pethadine as it affected by first borns heart rate. Doesn’t happen to everyone so I’m not trying to scare anyone x

I decided for an epidural if the pain got too much with my first (which it did!) rather than pethidine, only because pethidine can make baby drowsy too and that freaked me out. My SIL had pethidine and barely remembered the pushing phase, it really knocked her out. And my nephew came out drowsy and didn't cry. That scared me enough, so I had an epidural instead (which didn't work for me anyway, they don't work for everyone!).

I'm hoping for a water birth with maybe just gas and air 🙏 but as this is my first time I have no idea how it'll all go down. I've just put in my birth preferences that I'd prefer not to be offered anything, and that I'll ask if I need something. I just don't want the midwife to be constantly offering me pain relief and me doubting myself x

We’re hoping for as little intervention as possible. Tens machine, birthing pool, gas and air, we’ve been practicing hypnosis and breathing techniques. Also put together a playlist that helps us stay in the zone. Myself and partner check in now and again about how he can support me to stay in he birthing zone when I feel I’m getting caught up in the adrenaline. Lots of oxytocin basically.