What’s your birth support plan?

Hi ladies 🤍

I’m curious what everyone is planning in terms of partner involvement during labor and delivery.

Are you having your husband/SO in the delivery room the whole time? Or just for certain parts?

If your partner has seemed a bit unsure or inexperienced about how to support you or advocate for your needs, how are you planning to handle that? Are you going to prepare them ahead of time, or leaning more on a doula/medical team?

I’ve been thinking a lot about this myself. I do want my husband there to take me to the hospital and be there to meet our baby after delivery, but I’m considering having a doula support me through labor since they’re more experienced in advocating and guiding the process. This is also our first pregnancy so we don’t know everything there is to know.

Would love to hear what everyone else is planning 💛

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This is my 2nd baby. My Husband will be the only one in the room while I'm in active labor, he stays up by my side unless instructed otherwise. He knows now from how my first birth went down when to step in and advocate for me. He knows my wishes, my limits and when to proceed on and not listen to me. With our first we did an online couples birthing prep class, it gave him good insight on kinda what to expect during the process. It was from Balanced Birth Couple, highly recommend looking into them.

This is my 2nd baby, I’m going to have my husband and my mom there again. My husband is baby’s advocate and my mom is mine. More so in case baby or I are separated for medical reasons we both have someone.

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