Top 5 Reasons You Want To Have A Birth Plan

  1. You Make Your Own Decisions

There are many options when it comes to labor and delivery. You have to consider medications, baby monitoring, delivery position, and so much more.

Marie Southard Ospina, writing for Romper, shared how her not having a birth plan left her out of control:

Not knowing what I wanted from my birthing experience meant I was leaving the door open for a lot of other people to make the decisions for me.”