To a certain extent this missive reminds me of the mums to be who write their birth plan in great detail, citing where when and how they will have their perfect labours, usually calm, meditative (after all haven't they been to all those hypno classes), pain free and needing no intervention. Yet a few hours in are screaming for whatever pain relief is the strongest and yelling "just get it out".
Having idealistic plans is all well and good, but no one knows how labour and the early weeks of parenthood will be. Cooing babies and serene bonding parents is a beautiful idea, but in reality the sight of a beloved parent on the doorstep with home cooked meals and cakes to pop in the freezer and the offer to take baby for half an hour so the parents can have lazy baths , long overdue naps without having to listen out for every tiny whimper and then being told to sit down while the GP makes and serves coffee, is the sort of bliss that the idealistic parents to be can't yet imagine longing for.
I do understand where they are coming from, but I think they have approached it wrongly.
