About them being on a “Baby Story” on TLC. I watched that, I can’t remember if it was triplets, but they said it was Sanjay Gupta from television. I sat there and couldn’t really believe it because the guy didn’t really look like Sanjay. He also had such a thick accent that they had to put subtitles in a couple of times so that people could understand what he said.

I know people are different when on a newscast on CNN, than at the hospital having a baby, but I think they were imposters.

Congrats on their new baby!

My husband and I prepared a birth plan for our son’s arrival in July of 2006. We wrote it with the help of our Bradley Childbirth instructor, after reading other birth plans. We covered all bases, even if I had to have an unplanned c-section.

Everything went smoothly and followed what we had requested in the plan. Because we’d already discussed it all and had our midwife sign off on it, we didn’t even have to pull it out during my labor and delivery. Not even for the nurses because I delivered in an ABC room that’s part of the hospital where they are accustomed to and encourage natural childbirth. I delivered our son completely naturally with the help of my midwife and surrounded by my husband, mother and two sisters.

I think it’s a great tool to help everyone involved understand what everyone’s goals are and get everyone on the same page. Though it might not follow exactly, it is a helpful guide.

what a smile he has!

I had a birth plan with my hospital birth that I had to fight to follow (most of it ended up being against their “policy” for how my labor went, but thank you EMTALA for the chance for the birth I wanted). I did NOT have a birth plan for my homebirth other than the loose one in my head, but my midwife was fine with whatever I wanted to do. So I didn’t need one there.

I found it on Google it does state that they had triplets. 2 boys and one girl.
“CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta learns his wife is having triplets after two miscarriages. …”
http://www.thetopinfo.com

I thought they were on a baby story or some other discovery channel show and she had had triplets? I could be wrong though.

I did have a birth plan, but I ended up having to have an emergency C-section, so in the end, I didn’t end up following any of it. However, I delivered a beautiful and healthy baby girl, so yes, everything went as I had hoped as this was the most important thing, not how my labor and delivery went.

You wrote “A birth plan is by no means necessary.” I find that statement to be very wrong.