Visualization for giving birth

Excerpted from the book, An Easier Childbirth"
by Gayle Peterson, PhD, Family Therapist with ParentsPlace.

Visualizing your birth will help you to become comfortable with labor when it occurs, no matter where your labor takes you. Whether you have a vaginal delivery, as imagined, or a cesarean birth, you have followed your baby. This is your job in labor-to follow your baby, adjusting to the labor process. Using the above tape will allow you to relax and enjoy the usual progression of labor. Should your labor take you down a different path, you will find the metaphors useful in dealing with contractions. The suggestions given will help you to adjust in a more relaxed manner to whatever situation comes up. Greater resources for adaptation will be available to you, as the personalized suggestions put to rest other distractions that might otherwise be present in your family history.

Your personalized relaxation tape addresses your unique concerns about family adjustment and birth history. This personalized experience will allow you to work through feelings associated with childbirth before delivery, thereby contributing to lessened tension and fear during labor. Your increased comfort with the suggestions given in your tape will allow you to adapt to your childbirth with greater ease.