birth plan for twins

[elmotaughtddtousethepotty]

hello ladies, MN has gone mad and won't let me use my normal name, claiming the name is already in use! so i'm flumpity really but seemingly banished from using my own name.

anyway, to get to the point, as i approach 37 weeks, i've started thinking i ought to write something on the birth plan part of my mat notes. wasn't going to bother, given how far from my plan my dd1's birth was (embarrassed looking back it now, all the 'i don't want pain relief' stuff before ending up demanding an epidural!)

In your experience, what is it actually worth writing when you've got twins, particularly mono-chorionic ones? the hosp policy is for continuous monitoring, which i feel inclined to go along with having been terrified to death by the flipping tamba message boards full of people saying things like no way under any circumstances would they consider a VB with MC twins because of acute TTTS etc... but my host (st thomas) seem v experienced and are v encouraging of a VB if poss, but with continuous monitoring. So that's fine by me. (lots of hospitals seem to do a 36 week c sec for MC twins by default which strikes me as OTT, and consultant won't do that anyway even if i wanted).

ANYWAY, realistically, how upright and mobile can you be with continuous monitoring of twins? Is it even worth bothering to write that down? obviously i don't want to be stuck lying on a bed on my back... will they just assume its obvious i don't want that? or am i being daft to presume anything else is possible with a twin VB and monitoring?

I'm also not anti epidurals (loved my last one although it did make pushing hard and long). But if i put that down, will they just assume I actively want all interventions going? (i don't, just haven't closed off the possibility).

i'm rambling now, but if anyone can remember what their twins birth plan said and how useful (or irrelevant!) it was, i'd appreciate a nosey at what you said. and also what then actually happened...

thanks ladies.

xxx

Rollmops' Birthplan:

1. To arrive to the hospital and be greeted by the smiling nurses and ever-so-clever-and-handsome consultant --- check.

1. To get the show rolling asap --- eer, no check. Had to wait for the 3 emergency Csections to be preformed by the same consultant as the poor mothers had been in terrible labour the whole night and things were getting dangerous.

1. Hoping that Mr.Rollmops won't faint at the sight of the operating theatre ---- check was ever so proud of him!

1. Hoping for a tres' competent team --- check, absolutely brilliant doctors and nurses.

1. Easy and painless delivery of our DTs --- check, all went perfectly.

1. Everything to be OK with the DTs ---- big check!!!

1. That DTs would latch on and get the goodies --- double check!

1. That we wouldn't melt, literally, of all the emotion --- eer, no check, this was the most overhelmingly happy time, never ever have I felt so much love. So Rollmops' family melted and melted.

1. That the lovely sushi place across the street would be open as one required a triple order of sushi, pronto --- no check, had to settle for Carluccios instead.

So, here you have it, a bona fide birthplan that actually went according to plan, mostly...

And the ones who consider the Planned Csection a 'failure'[rolls eyes] --- haaa, do you REALLY think that I care?

sounds idyllic. glad it went to plan!!

lol rollmops. Glad all went well and that you melted