Real Talk: Your Baby May Not Cooperate With Your Birth Plan

As I lay comfortably in the hospital bed, I reflected on how smoothly my labor has been up until that point. Then it happened — my water broke. I’d been here before, actually two times, and nothing was out of the ordinary. I figured the rest of delivery would continue as smoothly as the previous portion. Oh, how wrong I was. The next 30 minutes were unbelievably terrifying.