Birth Plan

So Josh and I have been taking a hypnobirthing class to prepare for our little Raptor's birth.  Class the other day was about making a birth plan or your birth preferences.  We actually missed that class.  Josh's work had rented out the aquarium in Draper that same night.  So we went to the aquarium instead.  There's another class on September 13th that I'm going to try to catch while Josh is running his second triathlon.  Making a birth plan/preferences is kind of overwhelming.  So many different options of what to do or not to do.  Josh was a little confused by the whole idea.  His idea of a birth plan is have the baby.  Which is kind of annoying trying to figure out what is and isn't important to me and the baby.  But it's also kind of adorable at the same time.  That is the best plan after all, to actually have the baby.  There's a 4 page list of different preferences in the back of the hypnobirthing book.  I've used that as my starting point and can eliminate from there.  I'm not quite as hippie as a lot of hypnobirthing moms.  And not as anti-hospital and medications.  I just wanted to avoid an epidural if I could.  And the main premise of hypnobirthing is relaxation and staying relaxed.  I won't say no to that.