How to prepare your mind for a home birth

Whether you’re planning an at-home water birth or you’re just curious about one, this post shares what I did to prepare my mind. (Be sure to check out my previous posts on preparing your body and soul).

BOOKS & PODCASTS:

• Reclaiming Childbirth as a Rite of Passage

• Bountiful, Beautiful, Blissful: Experience the Natural Power of Pregnancy & Birth With Kundalini Yoga & Meditation

• The Midwives’ Cauldron Podcast

• Evidence Based Birth Podcast

MINI-ENERGETIC RELEASE & BOUNDARIES:

1. Protect yourself from fear-based thinking. I personally stayed away from medical institutions to protect my mind from fear. I asked my doctor to do my blood work every trimester to check my vitals. I only got one ultrasound to check on the baby.

2. Remove yourself from fear-based conversations. Anytime I encountered a person who shared horrific birth stories that happened to them or people they knew, I would remove myself from the conversation. If it circled in my mind at any point after the encounter, I would do the mini-energetic release below.

3. Release fear-based stories. Breathe to connect to your body and that story. Envision yourself erasing the story with the end of a pencil. Let the rubber debris exit your energy field every time you breathe out. Envision the wind blowing and carrying it far away from you.

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