
Most birth plans are too long to get read or too vague to matter. This one is built differently.
I'm a labor and delivery nurse and certified doula. I built this from what actually gets read in the room — and what actually changes how your care team works with you.
It's one page. Checkbox format. Every major decision point, from your labor environment to the golden hour to a cesarean you didn't plan for. Plus a second page that teaches you how to use it.
What's inside:
✦ A one-page plan easy for your provider to read
✦ Every major decision: labor environment, pain management, interventions, delivery, golden hour, newborn care, cesarean
✦ Language that signals informed consent without creating conflict
✦ A how-to page: the 36-week provider conversation, the BRAIN framework, and the one question that shifts the whole room
This is the same framework I give my clients. It's free. Print it, fill it in, bring it to your next appointment.
Because you deserve to be the most informed person in that room.
Jayni Angeli, BSN, RN, RNC-OB, C-EFM, CD/DONA · @imadoulathis