Depending on your provider and birth location, your birth plan will be either welcomed and encouraged or overlooked and underappreciated. A birth plan is a wish list of birth preferences. An ideal snapshot of how you would like your birth to play out in the best possible way. It is not a list of demands or an absolute plan.
It is important and tricky to figure out a newborns cry. The ‘I’m tired’ cry does sound similar to the ‘I’m dirty cry’. Over time you will be begging to hear the differences but in the middle of the night, all cries do sound the same.
When I found out I was pregnant with my son five years ago, I began an incredible journey into women’s health, pregnancy, and motherhood. I read everything about natural childbirth I could get my hands on.
