Birth Visualization Script {San Diego Birth Doula & Bradley Method® Instructor}

Relaxation & visualization scripts are great to help you get deep into a relaxed state of mind. The key to birth is relaxation. You need plenty of practice throughout pregnancy to train yourself for the big day! Have your husband (or any other labor support person) read this to you while you sit or lay down with eyes closed. You may also want some soothing music playing and lights off. Tune out and tune into your body and your baby.
Birth Blessings! ~ Robin

"Follow your breath down through your throat, chest, all the way down through to your uterus, to your womb…as you breathe in, you carry nutrients right through the placenta, through the cord which has 3 blood vessels…one blood vessel carries nutrients to the baby, while 2 carry waste products away from the baby through the cord and out through your system…through your breath…give yourself the right to imagine what it looks like inside your womb…The color of the uterine walls, the texture of the placenta, the waters and your baby floating…cradled in your pelvic bones...and hearing your heartbeat through the waters…and right now, your baby is very developed, perfectly formed…just waiting to be finished…Your baby is covered with soft hair, most of which will fall off before it is born…fingernails and toenails are growing…Your baby now has a unique hand print and foot print all of it’s own…it looks very much like a baby…your bay…and right now you are one…connected, physically one with your baby…

Take a moment now to become that part of the body that is your baby…give yourself the right to pretend just as you did when you were a child…fantasizing what it would be like on the inside….learning what ever needs to be learned…without any effort on your part…you can be curious and explore…you can learn from your body…without any conscious awareness; any changes that need to occur can spontaneously develop…as needed…for labor…for birth…for parenting….

Now, from the baby’s point of view, just imagine what the cervix looks like, and where it is…and take yourself forward in time, as if through a time tunnel, to the time of labor and birth…when your baby will be ready for the journey, completely ready to come out and into your arms…you can feel contractions coming throughout the day…but now they’re beginning to get harder and stronger and you can feel the baby’s head, and see it…pressing very, very, firmly down on the cervix…so very firmly that the cervix is beginning to stretch, to open…and you feel another contraction starting….like a car coming from way down the road in the distance and it is coming closer and closer, and the contraction is getting harder and harder and your baby’s head is pressing harder and harder down on the cervix…and you can feel the baby’s head coming down…and you open…and you open…then the contraction begins to fade…fading away until it is gone…and now you rest…and your baby rests…and you sink inot an even deeper state of relaxation…where your resources are endless…and you gather strength for the next contraction

And now you feel it coming again…this time very and hard and fast…building and building…and your baby is diving right down… down towards the opening of the vagina…and you can feel the strength and pwer of your uterus…pushing and pushing…contracting down, harder and harder…and you just let it happen….you “open” to the incredible strength…and you push and push…and you can feel your baby’s head, right there in the vagina…coming down and down…then the contraction begins to fade…and you let it fade…and your baby comes back, just a tiny bit…ready for the next surge forward…and your baby is getting very massaged…very stimulated for breathing.

And now you can feel it coming again… with this contraction you feel the burning, stinging sensation…as the tissues begin to stretch…your baby’s head can now be seen at the vaginal outlet…you are breathing now to resist the urge to push…breathing your baby out…allowing your uterus to do the pushing now…first your baby’s head slips out…and with another push…the body slips out…we can hear the baby’s cry…

Cries which are soon soothed as the baby is placed in your arms…the wonderful process of attachement and bonding…continuing…and beginning….you are holding, touching, seeing, smelling, and talking to your new baby…falling “in love” again…

Another contraction begins and you feel your uterus clamping down firmly to expel the placenta…the birth processes is over.  Your work is done…these events are not far away now…it is a very real image of what will be happening soon…now allow this image to fade…and you are in the present…your baby still inside, not yet ready for the journey…but knowing full well when the time comes…the baby is fully developed now and is putting on that extra protective layer of fat…still waiting for the time to come…now, focus your attention back to your breath…and the sensation of relaxation that is within your body now…before opening your eyes…visualize this room and the space within the room that you are occupying now…stretch your arms…lets…wiggle your toes and fingers…acclimate yourself to the present…and when you open your eyes…you will be awake, alert and confident in the wonderful body process of birthing."