Hi Beckos, where are you having bub? I birthed the placenta naturally which my OB was happy to let me do however we did leave this one 'open' to see what happened on the day. If there was loads of bleeding and my
OB didn't want to risk more blood loss and a blood transfusion being a possible outcome than I'd just have the injection, you can still breastfeed and do everything else like you normally would. Luckily for me everything was fast and drug free and ran smoothly as I birthed DS in the water but if I ended up needing it I would have gotten it. Maybe you could put something like that on your birth plan "only give me syntosinin if there is excess bleeding" There is no need to say yes or no to it before you know what is actually happening kwim. We also left the Vit K injection up to 'we'll see what happens on the day' if the birth was rough and bub had a hard time of it too with assistance and was bruised etc we were going to give it to him but as the birth was so smooth we declined it. If you are also wanting to do delayed claming than having the syntosinin shouldn't interfere with that either.