Here's our handy birth plan template – you can download it, print it, and fill it out. Be sure to give a completed copy of your birth plan to your provider well before your due date, ...

Your birth plan can be as long or short as you’d like, just remember that your midwife will need to read through it and your birth partner will want to remember everything that’s on there ...

Review your birth plan with your partner and anyone else who will be with you in the delivery room, such as a labor coach or doula. Then ask your doctor to take a look at your birth plan, too.

Thus a birth plan which details the presence of the support persons, including who they are, throughout labor and delivery, will be much more likely to be approved rather than springing the news ...

The word “plan” can connote an orderly, step-by-step march toward a set of goals — not exactly how birth unfolds. “In general, we all need plans for our lives,” Dr. Zucker said.