What is a Birth Plan? A Birth Plan is a written or typed document prepared during pregnancy with instructions and preferences for care providers during labor and immediate postpartum. Templates abound on the internet, usually covering common hospital procedures and prohibitions such as I.V.s, eating and drinking, mobility, offering of pain medications, avoiding cesareans, and newborn procedures that include circumcision for boys, Vitamin K, prophylactic antibiotics for their eyes, Hepatitis B vaccine and offering artificial nipples. What a Birth Plan is Not A Birth Plan is not a binding contract. It does not obligate any of your care providers in…