Top 5 Reasons You Want To Have A Birth Plan

  1. You Become Educated On All Things Delivery

Gaining knowledge of the pertinent aspects relating to your labor and delivery, and your baby ensures you will receive, or not receive, protocol or treatments that you are not in line with.

Ospina, on Romper, wasn’t sure where she had a voice regarding her birthing experience because she failed to learn about the process ahead of time. She wrote:

Not having a birth plan also meant I didn’t educate myself enough to know that I could’ve spoken up.”