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T H I N G S T O C O N S I D E R W H E N

C R E A T I N G B I R T H P R E F E R E N C E S

• Where do you want to give birth? • Who would you like to catch or

• Who do you want to have in the room? discover the sex of the baby?
• How do you feel about vaginal • Who should cut the cord?
examinations or monitoring for you and • Do you have plans for your cord or
baby?
placenta?
• How are you feeling about the birth?
• How would you like to deliver the
• How present do you want the care placenta?
provider to be?
• How do you feel about guided
• How did your previous births go if
relevant? pushing?

• What do you want the atmosphere in • Do you have any considerations in the
the room to be – light, conversation, case of caesarian birth?
music, medical students or limited
personnel. • Do you have plans for the first
moments and hours with your baby –
• Do you have preferences about the
comfort measures you’d like to use? feeding, skin to skin, wiping baby,

• Are there any additional requirements weighing, newborn checks?
or considerations that the medical team • What have you decided about
should know?
Vitamin K?