Birth Affirmations

My baby will be born healthy and at the perfect time

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My body contains all the knowledge necessary to give birth to my baby

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My baby knows how and when to be born

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I deserve to have the birth I desire

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Babies are born when they are ready, not when doctors, midwives or anyone decides

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My mind and body can handle a labor of any kind

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Birth will go exactly as it should.

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I am ready and prepared for childbirth.

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I see myself handling everything beautifully.

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My job is to simply relax and allow the birth to happen.

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There will be no complications.

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I surrender my birthing over to my baby and my body.

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My body knows how to have this baby just as my body knew how to grow this baby.

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My body is made to give birth, nice and easy.

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I believe my baby’s birth will come quickly and easily.

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I will have an uncomplicated, peaceful, joyous and pleasurable birth.

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I am not afraid.

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I trust in my ability to give birth.

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Life only demands from you the strength you possess.

My body knows exactly what it is doing.

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I will breathe deeply and slowly to relax my muscles making it easier for my uterus to work.

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All I need to do is relax and breathe – nothing else.

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Everything is going right

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I trust my body to birth my baby.

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I feel the strong waves of labour and know that everything is normal and progressing.

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Relax my mind and muscles.

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My body knows how to have this baby just as my body knew how to grow this baby.

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Keep breathing slow and even .Inhale peace, exhale tension.

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I have the energy and stamina to birth my baby.

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I surrender to the contractions and relinquish control of the forces within my body.

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I allow my body’s natural anesthesia to flow through my body.

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I do not fight the birth in any way. My body is totally relaxed. I am not afraid.

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My job is to simply relax and allow the birth to happen.

~ Each contraction produces a healthy, positive pain that I can handle.

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

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The power and intensity of your contractions cannot be stronger than you, because it is you.

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Just as a woman’s heart knows how and when to pump, her lungs to inhale, and her hand to pull back from fire, so she knows when and how to give birth.

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300,000 women will be giving birth with you today.
Relax and breathe and do nothing else.
Labor is hard work and you can do it.

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Life only demands from you the strength you possess.

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Rain, after all is only rain; it is not bad weather. So also, pain is only pain; unless we resist it, then it becomes torment.

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Good strong contractions help my baby come into the world

Soon I will meet you, baby.

Ride the wave [of the contraction].