Affirmations

To get through birth, we have to surrender to the process. We have to reach deep inside and remind ourselves of our God-given power to birth our babies.

To aide in this, many women have found the help of affirmations through their pregnancies and births to really help them focus and relax. Affirmations can be used daily. Read them. Meditate on them. Internalize them. Pray them.

You can get your partner involved too! They can read them to you or help you relax while you meditate on them. This can help create an anchor so that in labour, repeating the phrase or the specific touch can trigger the relaxation needed to allow your baby down through the birth canal.

Here is a list of affirmations for you to pick from. Recreate them in any way you see fit that encourages you to believe in your ability to carry and birth your baby.

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Pregnancy Affirmations:

• I trust my body

• My body is amazing

• I am beautiful

• I am powerful

• My body is doing exactly what it needs to to care for my growing baby

• I am prepared for anything

• My baby knows when it should be born

• My body can carry life and it is magical

• I surround my baby with life and love from my body.

• I am connected to my baby

• I love my baby

• My mind is at peace, my body is open

• My pregnancy with end with the safe birth of my baby

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Birth Affirmations:

• I soften, I open, I release

• I can do anything for a minute

• my breath reaches my baby

• I put aside fear of birth for my baby

• My body carried life and it is magical

• I trust my body

• I accept this birth no matter how it happens

• I am prepared for anything

• I can ride the waves

• Each wave brings me closer to my baby

• One less

• I open my body, my heart, and my arms to receive my baby

• Every birth is a valid birth

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Christian Bible Versus For Your Encouragement:

• I am fearfully and wonderfully made Psalm 139:14

• You knit me together in my mother's womb - Psalm 139:13

• For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope - Jeremiah 29:11

• We know all things work together for good - Romans 8:28

• I can do all things through Him who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13

• I will not fear for He is with me - Isaiah 41:10

• God did not give me a spirit to fear but it gives me power, love, and self-discipline - 2 Timothy 1:7

• Weeping may linger for the night but joy comes with the morning - Psalm 30:5

• When I am afraid, I put my trust in you - Psalm 56:3

• The Lord is near to the brokenhearted, and saves the crushed in spirit. - Psalm 34:18

Happy birthing.

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