I had a patient the other day with a 7 PAGE birth plan checklist printed off from the bump. I almost wanted to ask her what her screen name was.
LOL. My OB outright banned those forms and anything that came off the internet...lol. He has a 1 page form and your wishes better fit on it.
He once had a near tragic case after someone had a someone had a birthplan involving lavender candles, dim lights and like 43634643 people in the room. He almost couldn't do his job when she had to be rushed out to OR and it shook him bad.
Yeah, and the thing was, her birth plan was basically "I want pain meds ASAP, want to do skin to skin, and don't circ my kid." I certainly didn't need to read through 7 pages to know that.
And yeah, our hospital limits visitors in the delivery room to 2 people, and you can't switch back and forth. Patients get all up in arms about it, but we can't be tripping over extraneous people if were running you back for a stat c/s or calling NICU to resuscitate your baby. Birth is not a spectator sport.
My midwife had me sit on the toilet during labor. I must have been in transition at the time because contractions were super bad. Bad enough that I couldn't get my muscles to work to push anything out. Wish I could have though, because DH said things got pretty stinky in the delivery room towards the end.