Free Birth Plan Template
Finding out you're pregnant is an exhilarating moment, filled with joy, anticipation, and a whole lotta of questions.
Not sure where to start with your birth plan? Whether it’s your first birth or your fourth, a birth plan helps you clarify your preferences and communicate them clearly to your birth team. At a birth center, it also becomes a powerful tool to guide your experience with intention and confidence.
What Is a Birth Plan?
A birth plan isn’t a rigid checklist. Which is why we like to call it Birth Goals! It’s a conversation starter and a confidence builder. It outlines what matters most to you during labor, birth, and the immediate postpartum period, so your care team can support you accordingly.
What Makes Birth Goals at a Birth Center Unique?
Because birth centers support physiological birth and low-intervention care, your goals and preferences are more focused on environment, comfort, and communication. While hospitals may focus on managing procedures, birth centers prioritize the experience of birth itself.
Here are some elements to consider:
Who you want in the room (partner, doula, photographer)
How you want to move during labor (freedom to walk, sway, get in the tub)
Comfort measures you prefer (massage, hydrotherapy, music, dim lighting)
Pushing positions you’d like to try (hands and knees, squatting, side-lying)
Immediate postpartum requests - Is there anything that you would like to request that are not already standard of practice at the birth center?
Breastfeeding preferences
What you’d want in case of a transfer
Want help organizing your thoughts? We’ve created a free, customizable birth plan template designed specifically for birth center clients.
Your birth goals and preferences are reflections of your values, vision, and voice. Colorado Birth & Welness reviews your preferences with you in detail, so you’re never just handing over a piece of paper, you’re entering a partnership.
Connect with us today to learn more about our birth center.
