When your baby's birth doesn't go as planned

[Michie]

3 things to remember when your labor and delivery winds up very different than you hoped.
Giving birth is a powerful experience no matter how it happens. One day you’re pregnant with a baby inside you, and then the next day you have a child outside of you that you can hold in your arms. And because it’s such a powerful experience, women usually have some idea of how they want their child to come into the world. Some women spend many hours researching hospitals or midwives. Then there are hospital tours, birth videos and stories, and birthing classes — all which give different perspectives on how a child, specifically yourchild, could come into the world. And even if you don’t write down a meticulous birth plan, many women have some way they hope their delivery will go.

But what happens when nothing goes the way you planned or hoped? When the one way you had not wanted to bring your baby into the world is the very experience you end up with?

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When your baby's birth doesn't go as planned