Positive Birth Affirmations

 In my last post, I wrote about the importance of positive affirmations and using them to change your belief about something. Here are some positive affirmations about birth.

• I can do this. I am doing it
• I am capable
• I am powerful
• I am awesome
• I am a strong and capable. 
• I trust my instincts to know.
• I birth with confidence.
• My birth is a sign of my feminine strength.
• I do all things with God's Strength.
• I feel my own power
• I relax.
• I ride the waves.
• My body allows the baby to descend.
• My body is perfectly and wonderfully made
• The experience of labor and birth is a great gift.
• I will breathe slowly and deeply to relax my muscles and bring oxygen to our baby.
• This is what my body was designed to do.
• Relax, breathe, open.
• My body is opening wide.
• I welcome my baby.
• I am a strong, beautiful woman. I accept myself completely, here and now.
• I am completely relaxed and comfortable.
• I am doing this exactly right and exactly as nature intended.
• My body knows what to do. 
• I trust my body to birth my baby.
• I trust God. 
• I am excited to give birth.
• I trust in my ability to birth my baby.
• During labor and birth, I am completely relaxed.
• I am deserving of a easy, uncomplicated birth.
• I visualize my baby moving gently through the birth canal.
• I visualize an easy, peaceful, joyous and pleasurable birth.
•  My baby is happy and healthy.
• I embody Joy
• I embody Comfort
• I embody Acceptance
• I embody Trust
• I embody Truth

300,000 women will be giving birth with you today., You are one of them. You belong with them. You are one with them.  Relax and breathe and trust yourself and you team.

10 Childbirth Facts - From Babble

I love this:
What women should know about giving birth

Click Here to see Babble's 10 Childbirth Facts 

1) It's not like how it is in the movies

2) Labor goes through very distinct phases with different challenges

3) It's not a due date, it's a due month.

4) An epidural is just one of many ways to cope with labor

5) The philosophy of your care-provider matters. A lot.

6) Your doctor will not be with you for most of your labor. You midwife, may.

7) Induced labors are twice as likely to end in C-Section

8) Staying Home in Early Labor Can Reduce the Chances of a C-section

9) Birth is a normal physiological event.

10) A good birth experience is not about how you do it