Welcome to the My Essential Birth podcast. I'm Courtney and I'm Stephanie and we're professional

doulas, childbirth educators and the creators of My Essential Birth, the holistic, empowering,

online childbirth education course helping mothers everywhere confidently achieve their best

birth. So join us each week as we share tips and advice for all things pregnancy birth and beyond.

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I'm really excited about today's topic because not only does it hold a special place in my heart, but I also know how powerful it is to any and all women who are going through birth

and something that can be used before and after that experience as well. So we want to get

into the power of positive affirmations. And I'm going to preface this by letting you all know

that we have a special treat for you. And that is that we're going to include in this episode.

So stay with us till the end, a portion of one of our meditations that we give to our

students within the course, you guys are going to love it. So I feel like the minute a woman

announces to the world, hey, I'm pregnant, we're so excited, the horror stories start to flood

in from well-meaning friends, family, neighbors, ladies from church, pretty much anyone, because I don't,

I guess I still don't understand what the intention is if they're trying to like prepare you

for what they think birth would be like. Okay, so I actually have like a theory on this. And I think,

honestly, that what is happening is there needs to be some validation for what happened to them.

And there's probably a lack of them having a positive experience sharing that story and getting the correct kind of feedback.

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