Women are afraid to go into birth thinking it's all going to go beautifully because they're so afraid if they'll be disappointed in the end, it'll be double the blow.

It's not actually how it works. It serves you more to go into it believing and expecting and anticipating that

will go beautifully. It increases the likelihood of it. So we want to choose our beliefs and change

negative beliefs into positive beliefs. The next one says, I failed because I had to transfer to a

hospital and ended with the C-section. This one is so common. Failed. A failed home birth. Yeah.

Because I transferred. Yeah. Our brains are so tricky. It's like they just always have to have an

explanation. And someone did a job on that person. Now you're an adult. It's your responsibility to change

the belief. They're hard to change. But that's Now you're an adult. It's your responsibility to change the belief.

They're hard to change. But that's what you have to do.

I'm Cynthia Overgard, owner of hypniburthing of Connecticut, childbirth advocate, and

postpartum support specialist. And I'm Trescia Ludwig, certified nurse midwife and international board certified

lactation consultant. And this is the Down to Birth podcast. Childbirth is something we're

made to do, but how do we have our safest and most satisfying experience in today's medical

culture? Let's dispel the myths and get down to birth.

All right, we've got a new topic we want to talk about. The power of the mind. Big ones.

The stories we tell ourselves.

This is really important conversation for every human being.

Every mother, yes, every human being.

I guess as background, Trisha, before we get into the Instagram post and the question

that you put out there for women to answer. I want to give some background

on this conversation because you and I, on Fridays, we take a maximum of one woman per week

to do a birth story processing session with us. And there's so many interesting things that

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