Birth Plan Consultation
Birth Plan Consultations ($30/hour)
- Structured sessions help you focus on creating solid birth & postpartum plans
- Benefit from the insights and experience of a professional birth worker
- Receive assistance discussing hard choices with your partner
- Gain relevant information and resources
- Access digital handouts to increase your knowledge
- Learn tools for self-advocacy and communication with your healthcare provider
- Support and assistance in person, by phone, FaceTime, and/or email
-2 hour session minimum with email followup
Birth Plans
I know, plans get thrown to the wind in parenthood. That's life. Still, you don't set out on a road trip without a map.
The point of a birth plan is not to guarantee that everything will go as dictated, but to help you have more thorough conversations with your birth team ahead of time. Birth plans can help your whole team get on the same page as you open conversation about your personal goals, values, and concerns; identify any areas of tension or conflict with your birth partner and/or care provider; learn more about unplanned circumstances; and work to set realistic expectations for the birth.
Birth Plan Tips:
- Use your birth plan as an opportunity to introduce your family to any hospital staff you don't already know. This helps put a human face on your medical file.
- Include the things that are most important to you: labor environment, worries and fears, pain coping preferences, medication and intervention preferences, newborn care preferences.
- Remember, you don't have to decide everything ahead of time.
- If you're planning a home birth, create a just-in-case hospital birth plan to help you communicate with staff in the event of transfer of care.
- Structured sessions help you focus on creating solid birth & postpartum plans
- Benefit from the insights and experience of a professional birth worker
- Receive assistance discussing hard choices with your partner
- Gain relevant information and resources
- Access digital handouts to increase your knowledge
- Learn tools for self-advocacy and communication with your healthcare provider
- Support and assistance in person, by phone, FaceTime, and/or email
-2 hour session minimum with email followup
Birth Plans
I know, plans get thrown to the wind in parenthood. That's life. Still, you don't set out on a road trip without a map.
The point of a birth plan is not to guarantee that everything will go as dictated, but to help you have more thorough conversations with your birth team ahead of time. Birth plans can help your whole team get on the same page as you open conversation about your personal goals, values, and concerns; identify any areas of tension or conflict with your birth partner and/or care provider; learn more about unplanned circumstances; and work to set realistic expectations for the birth.
Birth Plan Tips:
- Use your birth plan as an opportunity to introduce your family to any hospital staff you don't already know. This helps put a human face on your medical file.
- Include the things that are most important to you: labor environment, worries and fears, pain coping preferences, medication and intervention preferences, newborn care preferences.
- Remember, you don't have to decide everything ahead of time.
- If you're planning a home birth, create a just-in-case hospital birth plan to help you communicate with staff in the event of transfer of care.