Anyone else?
I’m 39 weeks and have my 40 week midwife app next week. I’ve never even had a conversation with my midwife regarding my birthing choices/plan? Is this normal or am I expected to make a plan myself and just take it with me to the hospital?
Only conversation I’ve had with my midwife regarding birth is when she measured her on the 97th percentile (she measured wrong) and I said there’s no way I am pushing out a baby that size and she just laughed and shrugged it off.
I plan on going for a natural delivery and I’m considered low risk besides random spikes in blood pressure and the occasional protein in urine.
I just feel like we should of had a conversation about birth by now?
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Do you use an app for your midwife/hospital?
My midwife uses badger notes and there’s a section on there to fill out.
My hospital uses my pregnancy notes and there’s also a bit to fill out there too.
They never told me about it I just stumbled upon it and as soon as I filled out the badger notes one my midwife mentioned it.
Also have it written down too so your birth partner can advocate for you on the day too xx
no my area doesn’t have any of that 🫠
Good idea about having it written down though for my partner. Thank you ☺️
At my 36 week appointment, I was kind of just told to write down my preferences, even just on my phone and make sure my husband/birth partners knows it’s on there! I expected to go through options of pain relief, positions etc but nothing was really mentioned!
I found a few templates online and just kind of wrote down what I wanted, I’m planning on printing it and bringing it with me x
I was asked at my 36weeks appointment. I have made the notes myself.
I'm 40 weeks now and I didn't have any info given to me either even though in my green notes there is a page they are meant to check off to say we've had conversations about everything. Instead they just gave me a QR code to the NHS website and that had info about pain relief and things like that (to be honest nothing I didn't already know from my own research).
I printed off a birth plan and filled it in with a spare copy, it's with my maternity notes so I will hand it to them when I get there I guess.
I’m 37 weeks. I haven’t had 1 conversation with my midwife about a birth plan. I’ve just made one myself, and also joined hypnobirthing classes. All my midwife keeps doing is pushing breastfeeding on to me.
Had the briefest conversation ever with mine about preferences. Some of the things mentioned were cord cutting, vitamin k preference, placenta preference, pain management, student midwife preference and feeding preference
I've wrote my birth plan using a template and I'm taking it to my 36 week midwife appointment tomorrow. Its more down to you to do yourself, the midwife can't do it for you so you need to raise it with her if it's something you want to discuss
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