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Example C Section Birth Plan

Julie Pereira- C section Birth Plan

 

Yellow highlighted items indicate my utmost preference in case things go south and not all requests can be honored

During Surgery

  • NO residents to administer spinal, I am ok with all other levels of resident participation
  • My sister and husband will be in the OR with me (if allowed,-birth photographer too)
  • I’d like an anti-nausea med
  • Please explain the surgery to me as it happens
  • Please reinforce my uterus and use dissolvable stitches for closing me up
  • If possible, please double suture on my uterus and suture on the outside instead of staples (Approved by Doctor due to previous reactions to staples)
  • Warm blanket during surgery if possible

 Baby

  • Clear surgical screen if the hospital carries them 
  • IF no clear surgical screen, please lower the screen just before delivery so I may see the birth of our baby.
  • If possible, please allow the cord to continue pulsing after the birth so Baby may start breathing on his/her own while still attached to the placenta.  If delayed cord clamping is possible, please remove placenta and place in bowl to “travel” with baby.  If not possible, please milk the cord.
  • Please allow for skin-to-skin contact immediately after delivery and evaluate Baby on my chest, (If this is not possible – then father would like skin-to-skin contact)
  • I would like assistance getting baby to latch in the OR
  • Keep cord long for daddy to cut
  • I would like to see and touch the placenta and cord
  • I would like to keep the placenta for encapsulation

 Recovery

  • Please order Toradol for pain management- administer in the OR and standing order
  • I would like to EAT immediately after surgery (sandwich or other filling substance)
  • I would like a breast pump in the room as soon as possible after surgery. 
  • We would like to keep Baby with us at all times. If Baby must go to the NICU due to medical reasons, my husband will follow.
  • We will have a photographer, Brea Bursch arriving to photograph all of us. 
  • Please do not bathe baby
  • I would like an abdominal binder as soon as possible please
  • I am willing to be up and walking as soon as possible

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