We punted a lot, but it made me feel less pressured when those things happened that required a change.
This wouldn't have been me. When I plan something, I want it to go accordingly. I would have been crushed if I had spent all that time thinking about how I wanted it to go idealy, only to have to veer from the plan when the situation required it.
If I had tried to plan for all the contingencies, I would have had to print it out on a giant roll of paper because it would have consisted of a huge flow chart with lots of if/thens.
Ah, that wouldn't have been any fun. Mine was a single page, I think, and mostly about wanting to nurse (which didn't happen) and wanting the baby to sleep in (she never slept so we had to send her to the nursery a couple of times so I could get some rest) and that I wanted an epidural and stuff like that. I don't recall all of it.
I didn't do one with Aidan, and I wish I'd had more control of what went on with him. I was too out of it to follow what was going on and I still don't really recall what the emergency was that kept him in the nursery for most of a day. A plan wouldn't have helped with that, though.
I had a list of things I did NOT want to happen and in what order.
Every last freaking one of them happened.
That'll learn me. :)
I know.
Although, now I can schedule births! Advance notice given and invites made! I can choose astrlogical signs! And no maore contractions ever ever ever!
Sounds like Aimee's teething. Someone got the Tylenol?
A picture for Aimee (and anyone else who's interested): Still not King (yet). RAWR. That is one fine-looking future monarch.
That is one fine-looking future monarch.
He's going bald very early, though.
I lugged my laundry all the way to the basement only to find that all 8 of the washing machines were full.
I hate it when that happens. It always ends with me not doing the laundry.
Nobody I know who's given birth actually wrote out a plan.
I have one - or more accurately, I am in the process of making one. I think the word "plan" is sort of misleading. Or else you have to remember that it's like the military - no plan survives first contact.
For me, the process of putting the plan together has been very helpful in making me consider all the various options and what they entail. When the midwife says "we recommend X", I want to know what she's talking about and have had time (when I'm not in labor) to have thought about it.
ION, have we heard anything from Nora? The whole house offer/acceptance thing is nerve wracking - I hope it goes smoothly!
