Creating Your Adoption Hospital Birth Plan

Giving birth can be a physically and emotionally challenging event! You might be nervous as you get ready for delivery. When you add an adoption plan into the mix, things can become even more overwhelming.

That’s why Lifetime encourages you to create an adoption hospital birth plan ahead of time. This plan will say what role you’d like the adoptive couple to have, and how you want the delivery to take place. Here’s some info so that you can make an adoption hospital plan that works for you!

Questions to Ask Yourself

• Do you want the adoptive family to be part of the birthing process?
• Do you want the adoptive couple to be at the hospital with you?
• Is it OK if they’re both in the delivery room? Or just the adoptive mom, or neither?

Some women choose to bring the adoptive couple into the process so that they can experience the birth themselves. For example, she might ask the adoptive couple to cut the umbilical cord. Or, the birth mother could even let them be the first to hold the baby so they can begin bonding right away.

Other birth mothers choose to spend as much time as possible with their baby. It’s hard to say goodbye to someone if you haven’t first said hello. Taking the time to hold your baby and talk to her may help with your healing process.

How Lifetime Adoption Helps With Your Adoption Hospital Birth Plan

Lifetime Adoption’s coordinators are here to make sure that your wishes are followed in the adoption hospital birth plan. When you fill out your adoption paperwork, you will make all of your wishes known, and we make sure that the hospital is aware of how you want things to go in the delivery room. We are with you every step of the adoption process. Call or text us at 1-800-923-6784 and get started with your adoption coordinator today. You can also start your paperwork by clicking the “Start Your Plan” button below and we will contact you as soon as we get it.