{"id":3871,"date":"2010-01-08T13:33:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T20:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alannarisse.com\/blog\/?p=3871"},"modified":"2010-01-22T10:25:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T17:25:47","slug":"acknowledgement-of-wants-and-desires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/acknowledgement-of-wants-and-desires\/","title":{"rendered":"The Start of a Birth Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the beginnings of a birth plan, and just things that are important to me when planning for the next few months.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I want to give birth in my own home, with people I trust and love.<\/li>\n<li>After giving birth, I want to be home with my husband and baby, not in a hospital.<\/li>\n<li>I want to be mindful of the foods I eat. I want to eat wholesome foods and limit empty calories, without going overboard. I think a ginger beer or a cheeseburger and fries every once in a while is good for the soul. I will be careful to make sure the majority of foods I eat are nutrient rich.<\/li>\n<li>I want to be physically and emotionally present at my own birth. I want to be in charge of bringing my baby into the world, along with strong support from trusted, experienced midwives who can help guide me through the journey.<\/li>\n<li>I want to avoid pain medications and instead want to rely on more nature forms of pain management.<\/li>\n<li>I want to train for my birth physically. I want to make sure I keep going to the gym, yoga classes, and working out at home as long as my body is comfortable doing it.<\/li>\n<li>I want to train for my birth mentally. I&#8217;ll looking at techniques like hypnobirthing. I am reading Ina May&#8217;s Guide to Childbirth. I am reading about and watching videos of other home births to help prepare me.<\/li>\n<li>I want my birthing process to be as long or short as my body wishes it to be, as long as I am not endangering myself or my baby.<\/li>\n<li>I want my husband to play an active roll in my birth. I want him to experience it with me as much as possible. I&#8217;ll spare him the pain part. \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>If I am unable to give birth in my own home, I want an advocate with me at the hospital who understands my wishes.<\/li>\n<li>I want an caregiver who will get to know me personally before the arrival of my baby and who will support me after birth<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t want to give birth in the presence of strangers<\/li>\n<li>I want to hold my baby immediately after birth<\/li>\n<li>I want to breastfeed my baby<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the beginnings of a birth plan, and just things that are important to me when planning for the next few months. I want to give birth in my own home, with people I trust and love. After giving birth, I want to be home with my husband and baby, not in a hospital. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3871"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3904,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871\/revisions\/3904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}