I did get my birth plan, dammit
Having a birth plan, particularly a natural one, seems to be a punch line. Only naïve, first time moms would ever pretend to have a document that lays out how you want what is perhaps the single most significant event in two (at least!) people’s lives to go. Having a birth plan is cast as demanding, foolish, and maybe just a little much. Well, I had one, I was passionate about it, I did everything I could for months to increase the odds of things going the way I wanted them, and I got it, in all the ways that mattered.
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