BIRTH PLANNING

Your Birth, Your Baby, Your Terms — Not Theirs.

Are you preparing for a hospital birth and want more than a fill-in-the-blank plan that no one reads? What you need is a legally defensible, rights-based birth plan that actually protects you and your baby. This is not a checklist. This is a declaration of autonomy. A weapon against coercion. A blueprint for every parent and every birth worker who’s tired of watching the system rob women of dignity in their most sacred moments.

✅ Refusing Pitocin for induction or augmentation—with citations and safer options like IM dosing or physiologic third stage.
✅ Protecting your placenta as your property—not hospital waste.(You know they have contracts to sell them)
✅ Declining vaginal exams, cervical checks, and forced monitoring—and knowing they legally can’t touch you without consent.
✅ Preserving the umbilical cord—no clamping until you say it's done.
✅ Demanding accurate disclosure of quantitative blood loss, not vague guesses—because you deserve real data before decisions are made.
✅ Holding firm against the “big baby” scare tactics—with real evidence and zero fear-mongering.
✅ Documenting every intervention, employee name, and chart entry—yes, you can photograph your EHR.
✅ Refusing newborn interventions like vitamin K, hep B, eye ointment, and even heel sticks, with clear understanding of what you’re declining and why.
✅ Enforcing parental rights in the NICU, including the right to informed refusal, second opinions, and immediate legal counsel.
✅ Challenging unnecessary phototherapy and exaggerated bilirubin thresholds that separate mothers and babies.
✅ Ensuring doulas and support people are respected as medical witnesses, not spectators.
✅ Asserting your right to photograph and film your birth—because documentation is protection.

This is the Complete Birth and Newborn Care Advocacy series —a fully referenced, fire-tested guide to taking your power back in the hospital. Built from legal, ethical, and medical standards. Written for families, doulas, and birth professionals who refuse to be silent while coercion, fear, and policy replace consent and evidence.

🔥 This is how you save a birth before it needs saving.
🔥 This is how you guard a baby’s first hour from being stripped by protocol.
🔥 This is how you stop abuse before it starts.

👉 Download now. Print it. Bring it. Enforce it.
And never again hand over your birth hoping they’ll do the right thing. Make sure they have no choice.