Your Birth Plan

Your Birth Plan provides a nonjudgmental voice that guides parents to discovering their own priorities as they navigate the decisions they’ll have to make in the childbearing year. Davidson strives to outline options while including diverse stories of parents actively making those choices.

Control, choice and consent are themes that appear repeatedly in Davidson’s book, Your Birth Plan. Through stories and clear, nonjudgmental language parents are guided through the many decisions they’ll need to make. Rather than being an inventory and checklist, Davidson reminds people to take into account their values, past medical experiences, and feelings about their bodies and empowerment when making choices. Her supportive voice is clear and consistent throughout the text.


Ironically, Your Birth Plan says very little about the piece of paper being submitted to the hospital. Instead it focuses on parent’s journey of self-discovery. Who am I? What is important to me? What should I take into account in making these decisions? YBP encourages puts parents to put themselves in the center of their birth experience, rather than yielding to social or medical pressure to have their birth a particular way.