So, let's give it a go together!
Let's all lend some heart to a subtle, yet irrepressible shift toward healing birth by beginning with our thoughts and emotions surrounding birth. I hope that you join me in offering up affirmations with heart-held intentions to benefit everyone around us - men, women, and children. We must all be included and touched to heal our collective idea of labor and birth.
Here is a list to start us off in our work together. Please use the ones that hold the most significance to you and that touch your heart. Add your favorites, say them out loud, speak them silently in your mind, write them down and read them often, share them with others, share them with everyone. Let's do it, let's create more birth goodness in the world one thought, one mind at the time, beginning with our own:
• My body is beautifully and wonderfully made.
• My heart and body know exactly what my baby needs, my mind is learning.
• I am a powerful, loving and creative being.
• My pelvis releases and opens as have those of countless women before me.
• Good strong contractions help my baby come into the world.
• My body contains all the knowledge necessary to safely birth my baby.
• My baby knows how and when to be born.
• Birth is a safe and sacred experience.
• My baby will be born healthy and at the perfect time.
• I am a strong and capable woman.
• I am a powerful, loving and creative being.
• I am willing to meet myself with kindness in all that may arise.
• I accept this labor as my labor and believe it is the right one for me and for my baby.
• I feel the love of those around me.
• I proudly step forward and take my place within the collective of motherhood.
“Remember this, for it is as true and true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The Creator is not a careless mechanic. Human female bodies have the same potential to give birth well as aardvarks, lions, rhinoceri, elephants, moose, and water buffalo. Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body.”
Ina May's Guide to Childbirth: Updated With New Material