Birth anxiety!

I understand how you feel 100%! Wish I knew the solution x

I feel this so much ❤️ I spent the last 6 months working on birth anxiety as I practically had a phobia of it, feeling so much better now. Mostly did this through hypnobirthing, so maybe look up some hypnobirthing websites!

The gist of it is: your body is meant to do this. It grew a human from scratch and you had no input, right? It also knows how to birth a human. Our media makes birth look like it's too much to handle for our bodies, but it's not, a birthing woman's body is not weak. It's scary but it'll be okay, and if it gets too hard then there will be pain relief and midwives who have seen thousands of births to help you through it.

Don't forget, they can't force you to go through an induction, 1st pregnancies average birth in week 41 anyways.

And yes, I'm 40 weeks now, feeling paranoid about every 'labour sign' and very emotional!! I'm assuming emotions is linked to an increase in hormones & I'm just trying to ride the wave. We can do this! 💜

I would highly recommend reading or watching videos on hypno birthing too. It has changed my mind set and I have found it really empowering. Like said we were built to do this, it’s just the fear mongering from people/media that makes us think we can’t! We got this 💪

Also massively recommend hypnobirthing videos! I really like Bridget Teyler on YouTube. She has loads and loads of free videos that massively helped me with my first birth! Have a watch of some empowering/natural birth vlogs. It’s incredible what our bodies are capable of. But equally, if you need pain relief there are so many options. You really have got this!