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Birth Plans
As mothers, we keep so many things quiet. We regularly suffer in silence. I want to talk about it more. All of it.
I was going to give birth to my son in a large tub full of warm water. Labor was going to progress quickly because my first birth experience had gone so smoothly. It was less than 6 hours in the hospital before I met my daughter for the first time .
Claire was going to apply counter pressure in all the right places and she was going to remind me of how strong I was. She was going to remind me of what my dreams were for this birth and she was going to tell my husband that all the pain I felt and the weird noises I made were completely normal.
All the midwives and nurses that happened to be a part of my experience were going to be so very familiar with natural birth and they were going to be so very cool, calm and collected.
My daughter back home was only going to have to miss me for a little more than a day.
There wasn’t going to be an induction planned on my due date that I never asked for. There wasn’t going to be three prenatal visits at an office in a new location where I was seen by OBGYNs and no midwives. There wasn’t going to be a condescending tone when I called to cancel my induction.
There wasn’t supposed to be a spotty fetal monitoring that led to a rushed hospital drive…
