[POWER REPLAY] Recommitting To Heartfelt Hopes For Your Pregnancy & Birth

Birth With Power

Dr. Nicole C. Rankins

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 637 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

This week’s episode is a Power Replay that felt especially timely to revisit at the midpoint of the year. It’s a great moment to pause, reflect, and recommit to the values and visions that matter most for pregnancy, birth, and maternal health.

In this heartfelt episode, I share 10 loving-kindness wishes inspired by Metta meditation—a practice rooted in compassion and goodwill. Originally shared at the start of 2025, these wishes are just as powerful now as they were then, and they continue to represent what I want for the people I serve and for the world we live in.

These wishes speak to safety, respect, support, empowerment, healing, and more. They are for you, your loved ones, and anyone walking the path of parenthood. Let them be affirmations, reminders, or moments of pause throughout your day.

Whether you’ve heard this before or it’s your first time, I hope it offers inspiration, healing, and connection.

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0:00.0	Hey friend, quick note. I'm taking a summer break to rest, realign, and finish some exciting
0:08.1	things behind the scenes. While I'm away, I'm sharing some of the most loved episodes. Look
0:15.1	for power replays in your feed. Whether this is one of those episodes or this is a gem you found on your own
0:22.1	from the archives, enjoy. Wishing you a joyful summer and I will see you in October. It's
0:29.1	2025 and in this first episode for the year, I'm sharing 10 wishes for pregnancy, birth, and maternal health that are inspired by meta meditation.
0:47.7	Welcome to the All About Pregnancy and Birth Podcast.
0:51.5	If you're having a baby in the hospital, you are giving birth in a system
0:54.9	that too often takes away power from women over what happens in their own bodies. I'm Dr. Nicole
1:00.9	Calloway Rankins, a practicing board certified OBGYN, who's had the privilege of helping
1:05.5	well over a thousand babies into this world. I've been a doctor for over 20 years, and I'm here to
1:10.5	help you take back your
1:12.2	power, advocate for yourself, and have the beautiful pregnancy and birth that you deserve. This podcast
1:18.1	is for educational purposes only and it's not a substitute for medical advice. Check out the full
1:23.0	disclaimer at Dr. Nicole Rankins.com forward slash disclaimer. Now let's get to it.
1:29.1	Hello there. Welcome to another episode of the podcast. This is episode number 288,
1:36.0	whether it is your first time listening or you have been here before. I'm so grateful that you
1:41.5	are spending some time with me today. Today we are going to explore a unique
1:47.8	approach to reflecting on pregnancy, birth, and maternal health. We are going to dive into the beautiful
1:55.6	concept of meta meditation, also known as loving kindness meditation, and we're going to use it to create
2:05.3	10 meaningful wishes for pregnancy, birth, and maternal health. I learned about meta meditation from
2:13.5	Aditi Shah. She is a meditation yoga and Pilates instructor with Pelotan. I've done
2:19.9	probably 100 of her classes at this point. So let me take a moment and explain to you what
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