I didn't have anything I would call a plan, but I did have brief notes about stuff like I wanted to exhaust each pain relief option before trying the next, wanting to get in the bath, DH announcing the gender etc. that kind of stuff. A lot of the stuff I see in birth plans about skin-on-skin asap, BFing asap, and those types of things are just standard procedure with the midwives at my hospital so no need to document that. Like LuluHB says my ob and I had discussions about my hopes for the birth and she got where I was coming from and I trusted that would continue in the delivery room (and it did).

Second time around it was very much the same with a couple exceptions - saying no labouring on my back (pushing on my back fine, labour HELL no) and mostly just a few cautionary notes about the labour being quick and the midwives needing to be ready for a quickie - us being caught of guard with the pace of things first time around caused us some issues.

So pretty similar ideas going in, pretty different outcomes but that's babies for you!