Birthing Affirmations
- I love my pregnant body! I love the feeling of having a life inside of me.
- Pain during childbirth is normal and healthy!
- My baby is the perfect size for my body.
- Nature designed my body to give birth successfully.
- I feel calm and relaxed at all times.
- I look forward to giving birth naturally, comfortably, and safely.
- Giving birth is a right of passage. I look forward to it!
- Every contraction brings me closer to seeing my baby!
- My baby knows what to do when the time comes. My body does, too!
- I’m extremely tough. Giving birth might be uncomfortable, but it’s worth it!
Birthing Affirmations:
Psych Yourself Up for the Biggest Moment of Your Life!
The ability to create life is a magical thing.
Scientists can make computers talk. They can make robots sweep the floor. They can design AI programs good enough to obliterate our strongest grandmasters in chess.
But they can’t create life. Only a mother can do that.
Of course, giving birth can be a very scary thing, especially if this is your first baby. That’s natural, and it’s nothing to be ashamed of.
Any professional athlete will tell you that a little bit of fear is good for you. It enables you to perform miraculous feats of strength, agility, and endurance. Increased endurance is especially useful when giving birth.
Your goal should never be to remove fear altogether, but to control it. To keep it at a manageable, useful level. Instead of being overwhelmed by it, you should feel alert and excited, kind of like being at an amusement park.
Birthing affirmations can help you achieve that.
The Super Bowl of LIFE.
Football teams don’t just roll out of bed and walk straight into the Super Bowl sleepy, stiff, and possibly hungover. They warm themselves up first!
To prepare their bodies, they stretch, jog in place, and slap themselves in the face.
To prepare their minds, they do affirmations!
Quarterbacks stare in mirror while telling themselves over and over how beautifully they throw. Receivers constantly recite “I can catch anything!” The entire team shouts “We’re gonna win!”
Champion athletes pump themselves up psychologically before competing. Then, and only then, do they play!
Giving birth is your Super Bowl. It’s one of the biggest moments of your life, and it will permanently change you in countless ways.
Affirmations are a way of psychologically prepping yourself for it, just like a football player does before the big game. Just like a fighter does before the championship match.
This will only happen a few times in your life, at most, and it’s much more significant than any sporting event.
Be ready for it!
Birthing Affirmations:
Conquering Fear
Birthing affirmations can help you overcome your fear.
When I’m afraid of something, I find that it helps to analyze those fears. I actually write them down on paper. Then I find valid reasons why I shouldn’t be so scared, before using affirmations to imprint them onto my subconscious mind.
Let’s do that now.
Fear Of pain.
One of the biggest fears women have about childbirth is how much it’s going to hurt, and that fear is warranted.
Giving birth is painful, there’s no doubt about it. There’s no sugarcoating it.
But you can re-frame that pain as a good thing. See it as a sacred right of passage, because that’s what it is.
Cultures throughout history have used rights of passage, involving pain and endurance, as a way for people to prove their mettle at key moments in their lives.
Adolescents endured these rights in order to prove they were strong enough to be considered full fledged adults. Warriors endured them them to prove they were brave enough to defend their village against invaders.
Rights of passage are a way of forcing human beings to up their game. To be stronger. To be tougher. To be better. Going through them is considered a badge of honor.
In this case, it’s also the price of being a creator, which is the closest thing to being a god.
Fear of complications.
As a woman, your body was specifically designed by nature to give birth successfully.
You don’t have to train for it. Nobody has to teach you how to do it. Everything your body has to do will come automatically, because that’s what it was designed for.
Thank about it. Every single human being who ever lived had to pass through a woman to get here. Women of all sizes and all backgrounds have given birth successfully, and in all sorts of environments.
Human beings are just animals, after all, and animals have been doing this on their own for hundreds of millions of years.
It’s great to give birth with the aid of a doctor in a hospital setting, or a midwife at home. Trust in their knowledge and experience. Listen to their advice. Their presence is invaluable, especially in the event that something does go wrong.
But you should also know that your body already has what it needs, simply by virtue of your DNA.
Natures Way of Toughening You Up!
Have you ever seen a boxing trainer smash his pupil in the stomach repeatedly with a medicine ball? Why do they do that? Manny Pacquiao let his trainers hit him repeatedly in the arms and stomach with a heavy wooden stick. Why?
Because boxing is tough. You have to endure pain to have any chance of success.
Motherhood is just as tough as boxing, maybe tougher, and the job is infinitely more important.
The pain of child birth is nature’s way of toughening you up for motherhood. In the coming years, you’ll have to protect your baby from all kinds of dangers. You’ll have to endure hardships and heart breaks, and stay strong the whole time for the sake of your kid.
It won’t be easy. Nature knows this, and it wants you to be ready.
Birthing Affirmations:
Train to relax under pressure.
The more relaxed and calm you are, the easier your birth will be for both you and your baby. Relaxing during childbirth may sound impossible, but people have learned to stay calm under the most trying circumstances.
Pilots stay calm during life-threatening emergencies. Tight rope walkers stay relaxed when they’re on the wire.
It helps if you keep telling yourself that each contraction brings you closer to seeing your baby for the first time. Keep reminding yourself of that fact, and that what you’re doing is a miracle!
Give Yourself an Edge!
By reading birthing affirmations, you train your mind to behave as you want it to.
This method works for fighter pilots, professional athletes, surgeons, and people engaged in all kinds of highly stressful activities. They’ll work for you.
With just a little practice, these thoughts can become powerful habits your mind automatically reverts to, whenever you’re feeling pain or pressure.
If you practice seeing yourself as a strong, tough woman, willing to endure whatever pain it takes to bring your baby into the world safely, then when the time comes, you’ll do it automatically!
You won’t panic. You’ll stay calm. You’ll trust in your body, in nature, and in the professionals you’ve chosen to help you.
Birthing Affirmations:
The Method
Read these affirmations for 5 minutes a day, every single day.
You can print out the PDF version, or you can watch the video. In either case, you should silence your phone. Go to a place where you won’t be distracted by people or pets.
If you’re reading the PDF, set a countdown timer so you can fully concentrate on the affirmations, instead of wondering how much time has elapsed.
5 minutes.
Remember, you’re mentally training yourself for the biggest moment in your life. Every minute you spend reading affirmations for birthing will pay dividends when the time comes.
Always remember that nature is on your side.
Believe in yourself. Be willing to go through the pain of childbirth.
That pain is the most sacred right of passage we have as human beings. It will make you stronger. It will make you a better mother.
It will give you precious ammunition for when your kid thinks you owe them a Lamborghini on their 16th birthday.
Good luck!
(Once your beautiful baby is born, and you’re all healed up, you’re probably going to want to get in shape. Please see affirmations for health and for losing weight.)
(To speed up recovery after giving birth, please see affirmations for healing.)
-Tommy