Positive Birth Affirmations

BTW, have we noticed that I am 35 weeks today and have exactly 35 days left!  What a weird quirk of numbers!

I’ve mentioned before I’m doing meditation to prepare for natural childbirth.  I got very negative earlier this week about having to have fetal monitoring because of gestational diabetes.  I knew that my problem was not the circumstances (which can change all the time) but my ability to stay positive about it.  So, I’m working on using affirmations to help me prepare and visualize a healthy birth for Aellyn.  If you aren’t familiar with the power of positive affirmations, read this article.

So, here are my affirmations.  Please feel free to suggest new ones!

1. Birth is a safe and wonderful experience.
2. I will give birth without complications.
3. I am not afraid.
4. I know my baby feels my calmness and confidence.
5. I trust in my ability to give birth.
6. My body knows exactly what it is doing.
7. I am confident in my ability to birth naturally, painlessly and easily.
8. During labor and birth,I am completely relaxed and comfortable.
9. I will have an uncomplicated, peaceful, joyous and pleasurable birth.
10. My baby is healthy.
11. I am completely cooperating with my body.
12. I will breathe deeply and slowly to relax my muscles making it easier for my uterus to work.
13. My body is made to give birth, nice and easy.
14. I believe my baby’s birth will come quickly and easily.
15. My body is completely relaxed.
16. All I need to do is relax and breathe – nothing else.
17. Everything is going right.
18. I feel the strong waves of labor and know that everything is normal and progressing.
19. Relax my mind and muscles.
20. Courage, faith and patience.
21. My body knows how to have this baby just as my body knew how to grow this baby.
22. Keep breathing slow and even.
23. Inhale peace, exhale tension.
24. Keep my mind on acceptance and surrender.
25. I show absolutely no signs of fear or concern.
26. I surrender my birthing over to my baby and my body.
27. My body has a wide open space for my baby to descend.
28. My body will give birth in its own time.
29. I love my baby and I am doing all that is necessary to bring about a healthy birth.
30. Birth is an easy and natural occurrence for which my body has been perfectly designed.
31. The strength of my uterine contractions is a sign of my feminine strength.
32. I have the energy and stamina to birth my baby.
33. I surrender to the contractions and relinquish control of the forces within my body.
34. I allow my body’s natural anesthesia to flow through my body.
35. I do not fight the birth in any way.
36. My body is totally relaxed
37. I am not afraid.
38. The power and intensity of my contractions cannot be stronger than me, because it is me.
39. I am ready and prepared for childbirth.
40. I relax so my baby can relax
41. My job is to simply relax and allow the birth to happen.
42. Just let my body do it; let it happen.
43. I see myself handling everything beautifully.
44. Each contraction produces a healthy, positive pain that I can handle.
45. Birth will go exactly as it should.
46. Birth is a safe and wonderful experience.
47. My baby is healthy.
48. I surrender my birthing over to my baby and my body.
49. I love my baby and I am doing all that is necessary to bring about a healthy birth.
50. The strength of my uterine contractions is a sign of my feminine strength.
51. I do not fight the birth in any way. My body is totally relaxed. I am not afraid.
52. My mind and body can handle a labour of any kind
53. I will have a strong and healthy baby
54. I trust my body to know how to birth this child
* I trust my instincts to know what I need in labour
55. I trust my instincts to do what is best for my baby
56. I am a strong and capable woman
57. Only I can give birth to this baby and I accept responsibility for that challenge

58. My body knows how to birth my baby
59. I trust my instincts

60. Babies are born when they are ready, not when doctors, midwives or anyone decides
61. My body is indeed beautifully and wonderfully mad
62. It’s good for me to take care of myself. I get to have a voice
63. Listen to my body and heart
64. I deserve to have the birth I desire
65. I trust my body
66. I trust my pain
67. I trust my labour
68. I trust in my baby
69. I am a powerful, loving and creative being
70. I am now willing to experience all my feelings
71. My pelvis releases and opens as have those of countless women before me
72. I accept myself completely here and now
73. I now feel inner peace and serenity

74. I accept this labour as my labour and believe it is the right one for me and for my baby

75. I love and accept my body completely
76. I accept all my feelings as part of myself
77. I feel the love of others around me
78. My baby knows all is well

79. My heart knows what my baby needs, my mind is learning
80. Good strong contractions help my baby come into the world
81. I embrace the concept of healthy pain
82. I have enough love to go around, the universe always provides
83. I am strong, confident assured, assertive and very feminine
84. My body contains all the knowledge necessary to give birth to my baby
85. My baby knows how and when to be born
86. Birth is a safe and wonderful experience
87. My baby will be born healthy and at the perfect time
88. I know how to take care of myself in pregnancy.
89. My body knows how to give birth.
90. My baby knows the true birthday.
91. Birth is safe for me and my baby.
92. My baby will be born at the perfect time.
93. My body knows when to give birth.
94. I am a good mother.
95. My baby will find the perfect position for birth.
96. I love my baby.
97. My baby loves me.
98. I am a strong woman.
99. Contractions help to bring my baby.
100. I will make the right decisions for my baby.
101. My pregnant body is beautiful.
102. My baby senses the peace I feel.
103. I accept the help of others.
104. My baby’s head fit snuggly into my pelvis.
105. I accept my labor and birth.
106. I am surrounded by those who love and respect me.
107. I trust my body.
108. I know how to take care of my baby.
109. My baby feels my love.
110. This is what I want. I can do it!
111. My body knows how to give birth and I will let it!
112. My contractions are massaging my baby and hugging it.
113. My cervix ix opening with each contraction.
114. Childbirth is a normal, healthy event
115. I can have a healthy, positive birth
116. The power of birth strengthens me
117. I am calm and relaxed, every part of me is limp and loose
118. My baby shares my calmness and confidence
119. I am able to rest deeply between contractions
120. I greet each contraction with openness and expansion
121. My breathing is slow and even
122. With each breath I breathe in calm and I breathe out tension
123. With each breath I breathe in confidence and I breathe out fear
124. I welcome each contraction with my breath.
125. Every contraction brings me closer to the birth of my baby
126. My cervix is opening, like a flower
127. My pelvis is flexible and open
128. My muscles are warm, heavy, and totally relaxed
129. I am excited about the birth of our baby
130. My baby is in the perfect position for birth
131. Every contraction brings my baby closer to me
132. I trust my body and my baby to know how to achieve a safe, comfortable and easy birth
133. Every hand that touches me in hospital is a healing hand and expresses only love
134. I am totally comfortable at all times
135. This day, hour, and minute is sacred and blessed

Another good one is Frank Herbert’s Litany Against Fear (from the Dune books): 

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.