Going into Birth with Confidence
Pregnancy Podcast
Vanessa Merten
4.5 • 970 Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
It is completely normal to feel nervous about giving birth, especially with so many unknowns about how labor will unfold. Research shows that fear of birth can affect your experience, but you are not powerless against it. In this episode, you will learn how to identify what is driving your anxiety, filter out unhelpful influences, and use simple, effective tools to feel more grounded and prepared. We will cover ways to reframe your mindset, build confidence through education and planning, and talk through common fears so you can approach birth with greater calm and confidence.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the pregnancy podcast with Vanessa Martin. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello, thank you for tuning into the pregnancy podcast. In today's episode, we're talking about |
| 0:17.0 | overcoming fear and anxiety to go into your birth with confidence. Every expecting mom is going to |
| 0:24.5 | experience some level of anxiety or fear about labor, and a big part of that has to do with the fact |
| 0:31.3 | that some aspects of your labor are just unpredictable. Not only can it be really stressful to have anxiety about giving birth, but research actually |
| 0:42.2 | shows that fear of birth can negatively impact your birth experience. |
| 0:47.0 | The downside here is there's always going to be unknowns about how your labor will unfold. |
| 0:53.4 | The good news is that there are a lot of strategies |
| 0:56.1 | you can employ to overcome anxiety or concerns. So in today's episode, we're going to talk about |
| 1:02.8 | how to tackle specific fears, how to overcome general anxiety about labor. We're going to get |
| 1:09.6 | into reframing your mindset and steps that you |
| 1:13.4 | can take to build your confidence about labor and birth. You can find the complete article and |
| 1:19.7 | all of the resources for this episode at pregnancypodcast.com slash confidence. One of my favorite things about producing this podcast is that I get to do the |
| 1:33.3 | heavy lifting of all the research so that you can get the information that you need distilled down |
| 1:39.7 | in one short podcast episode. There is so much to learn during pregnancy, and thankfully, there is a |
| 1:47.8 | pregnancy podcast episode waiting for you to press play on every topic you can think of for |
| 1:55.0 | pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. Become a pregnancy podcast premium member to get an ad-free experience and access every |
| 2:05.3 | single episode of the podcast. Let me save you the time and hassle and frustration of researching |
| 2:12.4 | the evidence and sorting through conflicting advice. Get access to hundreds of episodes with evidence-based |
| 2:19.7 | information you won't find anywhere else. Check out Pregnancy Podcast Premium at |
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| 2:39.2 | to deliver crystal clear HD video, reliable performance, and strong night vision. The advanced |
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