Oh- birth plan meeting reminds me of when I took my birth plan to one of my midwife appoints at the FBC last time. I got the stupid young midwife I had a few times (who made me scared of birthing there- more of a medwife than a midwife). She took the time to read it and discuss each point which was good but basically either said "Of course we'll do that" or "Nope, that wont happen" and made the whole thing look like a waste of time. Once I was in labour though the midwife I had was awesome and she obviously read it before I arrived and she followed it to a tee- set up the room with dim lights, used the doppler as little as possible, automatically declined the hep-b vax for us etc.

I also meant to talk about my H being at the birth. My H was central to the whole thing last time- we spent most the labour at home, just the two of us and once we arrived at the birth he was always within 30cm of me (most the time I was leaning on him). At the birth centre I only had him, my doula and the midwife (who came in and out anyway) so it was beautiful and calm. I'm actually feeling like this birth might not be as good as we'll need people here for my son and even then my H might get distracted with them/him at times. And the midwives may end up here earlier in labour I guess. We'll see- but I would like it be all about my H and I again if we can manage it.