Preparing for Labor Success!
It's Like Eating...

Preparing for labor to be a success is a lot like eating.
If you wanted a delicious loaf of California sourdough bread you would go to California to get it. That would be the easiest and best way to ensure that you were getting exactly what you wanted, right?

Is California a little out of the way? I guess you could go to your local grocery store and you might find a loaf that has a California label on it. You may or may not be satisfied with it, but at least it's probably close to what you wanted. But I am absolutely sure that you would not go digging around in the trash can expecting to find a loaf of satisfactory bread, let alone a delicious California sourdough loaf. The idea is ridiculous! Appalling! Yet this is how many women begin preparing for labor.

The same goes for running, schooling, making money- everything! If you want to be successful, no matter what it is, find someone or something that has proven success and then learn from them! Follow, emulate, glen, and soak it in! This is the easiest and surest path to your own success! Just as a marathon runner would not ask advice from someone who has never even run a mile, don't seek advice from someone who has not achieved what you desire. You are just wasting your time and probably doing more damage than good.

Three Questions You Need To Ask Yourself When Preparing for Labor...

1) Who Gives Birth: The Doctor... or You?
It is not the doctor's or the hospital's responsibility to give birth. They are they to attend and assist if needed. Unfortunately, when preparing for labor we have been taught to look outside of ourselves; to put our faith and trust in things like doctors, drugs, procedures, and other people to "deliver us" and to lean on, to use as a fail-safes or a crutch. This is not wise, nor is it to our advantage in anyway. We need to realize that birth is our responsibility, it is our task, just as it is our joy! Ours and ours alone. No one else can do it for us. The more we dole out the responsibility of our births, the more things "can go wrong." We are less confident, more dependent, and we lose our ability to connect with our innate intelligence and our ability to "give birth."

2) Do You Believe Your Body Was Designed To Fail?
You were divinely designed to be able to conceive, cultivate, and then give birth to new human life! This is not an accident. I know that the thought of a baby coming out of you may be beyond your current imagining (it sure puzzled me) but the truth is that God designed you with this specific purpose in mind. You do not need "help". Your body was not designed to "fail". (It was not designed with current medical standards in mind either.) A healthy body is perfectly capable of beginning labor at the right time, when your body and your baby are ready. It does not shut down in the middle of labor unless YOU tell it to. It opens up, and lets your baby easily pass though you as long as you do not hinder it. It does not respond to charts, test, procedures, or time limits- your body responds to YOU!

You need to...
Approach birth with a different attitude. You are the one in charge. You are the one who can feel. You are the one who knows when it is time to give birth. You are the one who can relax, be in tune, and allow birth to happen. All of the other people, instruments, and charts are there to help, but do not give away your ability to birth. Don't wait for someone else to tell you it is or is not time. The more you "need" outside help- the less control you have over your own birth and the more difficult it becomes.
Programming and Preparation will teach you how to keep your birth "mother-centered."

3) Do You Believe In Yourself?
I believe that everyone, no matter who they are or what they are trying to do, does their very "best" at any given moment. In order to do your best, find those who have achieved what you desire and learn from them. This was one of the greatest lessons I learned while preparing for labor.
DON'T waste your time listening to people who try to scare you.
DON'T waste your time listening to people you tell you it is "impossible".
DO spend your time learning from those you have accomplished what you desire and then go to work!
And DO spend your time believing in yourself and your god given ability to give birth- calmly, confidently, and completely. Remember:

"To try and fail is at least to learn, to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been." -Chester Barnard

No one can do better than you can!

Now let's begin the process of preparing for labor...

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