Birth Plans

When the pangs of labor begin, some mamas scream — but Brittany Brees won't. The wife of Super Bowl MVP Drew Brees said she won't tell her husband she's in labor if he's playing football. On last night's 60 Minutes, the expectant couple discussed their birthing plan for their second child:

"He's not going to get a call ... He's not going to know," Brittany says. "If I go into labor, I'm going to get the drugs and just pretend everything’s fine."

That's fine by Drew. "Even if she was on her way to the hospital, water had broke, she's about to give birth, she would make up some elaborate story to make me comfortable and at ease," says the 2010 Super Bowl MVP. "So I go play the football game and I come home and there might be a new baby boy there waiting for me," Brees added.

It's the climax of all maternity movies — that pinnacle scene when the woman's water breaks and the frenzied couple race to the hospital. It's the day that you envision the moment that your pregnancy is confirmed — when your baby finally decides it's time to meet you. Well, that scenario didn't happen for me.

There was no scramble to pack a bag or pull into the hospital's unloading zone, just me in a sterile smock two weeks overdue and exhausted from having walked my feet off, had sex, indulged in spicy foods, and done everything else I read would bring on labor, listening to my doctor say he was admitting me for induction. The news thrilled my husband, but he wasn't the one signing the papers to have our offspring evicted from my body. I was, and hadn't planned on it. I hadn't had caffeine while pregnant, and now they were going to pump me full of drugs and force my child out. So, I cried. To see what happened, read more

Birth plans are made to be broken especially when a mama-to-be's water breaks! British Prime Minister David Cameron's fourth child was born yesterday while the family was on holiday! The crew was 270 miles from London when his wife Samantha went into labor three weeks early. After rushing to the local hospital, Florence Rose Endellion Cameron was born via c-section.

Last year, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists deemed it safe to travel by air during an uncomplicated pregnancy. How close to your deliver date were you willing to travel?