06/05/2024
From my manuscript:
Birth Room And Affirmations
Pick a space that is most comforting, quiet, and open for you, a spot that brings you joy or just makes you calm. A space with easy access to a tub, or big enough for a pool, is needed if you plan on doing a water birth. Don’t feel bad if you end up not using the designated space, some laboring mothers have the ability to walk around from room to room during labor even. Some end up giving birth in closets because they feel safer in there rather than an open bedroom. It’s odd but it’s possible. Just make sure you have a space for your birth supplies or if you are going in after laboring for a while at home, make sure you have your postpartum healing space ready for when you come home either in your bedroom or den. Have enough space to bounce on your ball, do yoga or other labor moves or dances, and a comfortable chair or bed. On the day of when it all starts, put puppy pads down on the floor, or anything absorbent, in all of your favorite laboring spots. Set the mood by hanging lights such as fairy or Christmas lights. Have some incense or candles ready, stereo or music, your affirmations, and stones or charged crystals, blessed, and ready. Also put up whatever makes you spiritually happy, crosses and the like.
If you are into what crystals might help, here are a few:
Fertility: moonstone, red jasper, unakite, rose quartz, carnelian
Pregnancy: moonstone, ruby, red jasper, amethyst, lapis lazuli, aventurine
Childbirth: moss agate, onyx, jade, calcite, obsidian, angelite
Birth Affirmations: My favorite was actually a Christmas decoration that says “all is calm, all is bright”. That spoke more to me than the actual cards, taped up all over the house!
Here are some you may want to hang up: You are stronger than you ever thought possible, breath out fear, soften your neck and shoulders, my body knows exactly what to do, I can do this, my birth will be beautiful, relax, release, open, I can do anything for a minute, she believed she could so she did, my body was designed to do this, I meet my baby soon, I am safe, my body and baby are working together.