Pink Welcomes Baby with Change of Birth Plan

Celebrity musician Pink welcomed her daughter Willow Sage on June 2nd.

While Pink had planned a home birth with midwives, her fate took a different turn after she labored for two days with her breech baby.    After deciding to head to the hospital, Willow Sage arrived happy and healthy via C-section.

Explains Pink to People magazine:

“She was in the frank breech position, which is head up with her legs up by her head in a pike position. We tried everything to turn her around. Turns out this little girl had other plans — she is my daughter, after all…It all turned out perfectly in the end, even though it wasn’t what we intended, because she is healthy and happy and so am I.”

The author of this article about Pink’s birth offers insightful perspective on when birth plans shift.

While it is wise to be prepared, educated, and supported on the plans for your birth, it is important to remain resilient and flexible.    Whether you are planning a home birth, a natural birth in a hospital or birth center, or choosing an epidural, birth may often ask that you reassess you options.    Throughout their experience, women deserve informed consent and evidence-based information on all of their choices.

While the health of the mother and baby are always priority, it is crucial that women feel advocated for and empowered in the decisions surrounding their birth.   This can be done by ensuring you have selected a supportive care provider and birth team, are educated on the birth process, and feel safe (emotionally as well as physically) in the setting of your birth.

Tell us about how you managed and learned from your alternate birth plans…