A few years ago, we wrote a post about birth affirmations and how hypnobirthing suggests repeating your affirmations regularly throughout the last few months of pregnancy to prepare yourself for the safe arrival of your baby. If you find you have fears and concerns about birthing your baby, using affirmations can help to dispel these.
I found some of the affirmations made me cringe, let’s not mention the suggestion that “My cervix is like a rosebud, ready to open” but I have revisited some of the positive birth affirmations that assisted me and that I was comfortable saying out loud.
I trust my body to grow my baby, and I trust my body to birth my baby.
I feel confident. I feel safe. I feel secure.
My baby is healthy and innately knows when to begin labor.
I am proud of my body and I trust it to birth my baby.
Every contraction brings me closer to our baby.
The power and intensity of your contractions cannot be stronger than you, because it is you.
My mind has released all fears and trusts birth.
Birth is safe for me and my baby.
This is what my body was designed for and my body knows how to give birth.
We previously said that choosing the right affirmation for you is what will make them work. It is good to choose the ones that you are comfortable with, or write your own but whichever ones you choose, you just need to believe in them.
I do believe in positive affirmations and try my best to do them. I really like the pregnancy one you posted. Wish I had one when I was pregnant with my kids.
I think this is such a good idea, your right in that your body is designed to give birth and knows what it is doing and how to cope x
I have never heard of anything like this before, but it sounds like a really good idea.
I really believe that affirmations are a wonderful thing to do. Nothing beats repeating something positive over and over. I find it eases stress and relaxes me