affirmations
I was completely taken care of, and my body knew exactly what it was doing.
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
“Never underestimate the power and determination of a pregnant woman who is told she cannot.”
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you have to stop to look fear in the face.”
“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.”
“It is true that naturally occurring labor can feel larger and greater than the woman birthing. This is not so as she creates from within the very hormones that increase the strength, power, and frequency of her work of labor. That is the good news–it is from her, for her, by her.”
“Birth is an opportunity to transcend. To rise above what we are accustomed to, reach deeper inside ourselves than we are familiar with, and to see not only what we are truly made of, but the strength we can access in and through
birth.”
Birth is a rite of passage of women. Their journey should be honored, their rights should be fiercely protected, and their stories should be shared.”
“We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.”
“My body can’t labor and give birth like other women’s bodies. Many women who have had cesareans believe this; it’s almost as if the experience left that message deep in their cells. Remember that every year around the world hundreds of thousands of women give birth by VBAC. Your body still remembers how to labor [...]"
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Laboring was the hardest thing I had ever done in my life. I had to remind myself of the woman who birthed naturally, my girlfriends who helped me along on this journey. I told myself, “Janelle did it, Morgan did it, Mae did it, Laura did it…. YOU CAN DO IT TOO. You WILL do it!” Being in labor and in that pain is very isolating because no one in the room feels what you’re feeling. But remembering the ladies who had done it too really helped me persevere through it.
“I know this is hard honey, but really try to praise God for each contraction knowing that it is bring our baby closer to being here with us. You’re doing great!”
He had learned a long time ago that some things were worth being afraid of. And some things were not. Things that he had done before and survived did not justify fear. To be afraid of a survivable thing was irrational.
I told Carrington that this was the hardest thing I’ve ever done and she said, “Well honey, that’s why it’s called labor. But this pain is beautiful Chelsea. God created our bodies to endure this labor for a reason. You’re going to look back at this and realize all of the little things he was busy teaching you through your birth…. I promise, you will be addicted to this pain when it’s all over.”
“After this is all over, there will be nothing you can’t accomplish.”
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
“Never underestimate the power and determination of a pregnant woman who is told she cannot.”
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you have to stop to look fear in the face.”
“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.”
“It is true that naturally occurring labor can feel larger and greater than the woman birthing. This is not so as she creates from within the very hormones that increase the strength, power, and frequency of her work of labor. That is the good news–it is from her, for her, by her.”
“Birth is an opportunity to transcend. To rise above what we are accustomed to, reach deeper inside ourselves than we are familiar with, and to see not only what we are truly made of, but the strength we can access in and through
birth.”
Birth is a rite of passage of women. Their journey should be honored, their rights should be fiercely protected, and their stories should be shared.”
“We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.”
“My body can’t labor and give birth like other women’s bodies. Many women who have had cesareans believe this; it’s almost as if the experience left that message deep in their cells. Remember that every year around the world hundreds of thousands of women give birth by VBAC. Your body still remembers how to labor [...]"
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Laboring was the hardest thing I had ever done in my life. I had to remind myself of the woman who birthed naturally, my girlfriends who helped me along on this journey. I told myself, “Janelle did it, Morgan did it, Mae did it, Laura did it…. YOU CAN DO IT TOO. You WILL do it!” Being in labor and in that pain is very isolating because no one in the room feels what you’re feeling. But remembering the ladies who had done it too really helped me persevere through it.
“I know this is hard honey, but really try to praise God for each contraction knowing that it is bring our baby closer to being here with us. You’re doing great!”
He had learned a long time ago that some things were worth being afraid of. And some things were not. Things that he had done before and survived did not justify fear. To be afraid of a survivable thing was irrational.
I told Carrington that this was the hardest thing I’ve ever done and she said, “Well honey, that’s why it’s called labor. But this pain is beautiful Chelsea. God created our bodies to endure this labor for a reason. You’re going to look back at this and realize all of the little things he was busy teaching you through your birth…. I promise, you will be addicted to this pain when it’s all over.”
“After this is all over, there will be nothing you can’t accomplish.”