Surround your unit and birth rooms with the positive, love, and TRUTH about who your patients are and what they are capable of.

Affirmations included:

• I am fearless
• I trust my body and follow its lead
• I am laboring (especially for you VBAC mommas)
• I am a healthy, wise parent
• I can do anything for 30 seconds
• Flex & Flow (oh yes, of course this one’s included!)
• I am strong
• Just breathe
• Peace
• I am enough
• Choose joy
• Don’t fight it, just let it wash over you
• The power & intensity of the contractions cannot be stronger than me, because it IS me.
• Surrender
• It’s you and me, we will do this together.
• Today, 300,000 women will be giving birth with me.
• I allow this contraction to wash over me.
• ALL I need is to be present in this moment
• I am in control
• My body is wise & purposeful
• You are not alone
• You can do it
• This will not last forever
• PAIN: Purposeful, Anticipated, Intermittent, Normal
• I have everything I need right here
• Soften
• Let go
• I choose to release any tension in my body
• I am 1 contraction closer to meeting my baby
• My body is working for me and my baby
• My cervix is opening, & my baby is moving down
• The more I relax, the more my body softens & expands

I like to have these available but you or your patients will likely connect with a few in labor. Put them around your hospital room, somewhere where your patient will see them.