Guided Birth Prep Meditations & Affirmations

Momday

Momday brings you guided meditations for pregnancy, birth prep, and postpartum. Hosted by Ella Dove, this podcast blends evidence-informed birth education, nervous system regulation, breathwork, positive affirmations, and subconscious preparation to help you feel empowered, confident, and ready for birth. These meditations support mental preparation for labor, helping reduce anxiety, strengthen resilience, improve pain coping, and guide your body back to a calm, regulated state when intensity builds. Each episode is designed to build trust in your body, deepen your connection, and prepare you emotionally and physically for one of life’s most powerful transitions.

Episodes

  1. Softening & Opening for Birth | Guided Meditation for Labor Relaxation

    3 DAYS AGO

    Softening & Opening for Birth | Guided Meditation for Labor Relaxation

    Welcome to the Momday Podcast hosted by Ella Dove. This guided meditation is designed to help you soften and open your body for birth by releasing tension, regulating your nervous system, and practicing surrender to sensation. Birth does not require force. It responds to safety, openness, and trust. In this pregnancy meditation for labor preparation, you’ll learn how breathwork signals safety to the body, how jaw relaxation supports pelvic floor release, and how vocalization can help move sensation downward instead of bracing against it. Through parasympathetic breathing, body awareness, and guided sound practice, you’ll begin training your body to respond to intensity with softness rather than resistance. You’ll be guided through low, grounding vocal tones to encourage the jaw, throat, and pelvic floor to release together, along with a full body scan and visualization of contractions as waves of energy that rise, peak, and pass. This practice supports natural birth preparation, nervous system regulation, and building confidence in your body’s innate ability to open. Each time you return to this meditation, you strengthen the mind-body pathway that allows you to breathe through labor, soften into sensation, and trust your body’s ancient wisdom. You do not need to force birth. You create the conditions for it to unfold. ✨ Looking for deeper birth preparation with Momday? If you’re ready to physically prepare your body for the demands of labor, join the Momday App for expert-guided pregnancy workouts, structured birth prep training, and evidence-based education designed to support you through every trimester. Start your 7-Day Free Trial of the Momday Pregnancy & Birth Prep App: https://momday.com/pages/momdayappredirect Connect with Momday: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/momday.studio YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@momday.studio

    17 min
  2. Positive Birth Affirmations | Guided Meditation for Labor Confidence

    3 DAYS AGO

    Positive Birth Affirmations | Guided Meditation for Labor Confidence

    Welcome to the Momday Podcast hosted by Ella Dove. This guided affirmation practice is designed to help you rewire fear-based thoughts about labor and replace them with confidence, trust, and calm. The words you repeat consistently become the beliefs your nervous system learns to hold onto. When practiced regularly, positive birth affirmations can help regulate anxiety, strengthen emotional resilience, and support a more grounded labor experience. In this episode, you’ll be guided through empowering birth affirmations that reinforce trust in your body, connection with your baby, and confidence in your ability to meet labor one wave at a time. As you breathe slowly and repeat each affirmation, you begin building a mental foundation rooted in steadiness rather than fear. This meditation supports birth preparation in the third trimester, natural labor mindset training, nervous system regulation, and strengthening the mind-body connection before delivery. Whether you listen daily or return to it during early labor, these affirmations are designed to anchor you in capability and calm. Your thoughts shape your physiology. Your breath shapes your response. And your body already knows how to give birth. Let these affirmations become familiar, so when labor begins, confidence feels natural. ✨ Looking for deeper birth preparation with Momday? If you’re ready to physically prepare your body for the demands of labor, join the Momday App for expert-guided pregnancy workouts, structured birth prep training, and evidence-based education designed to support you through every trimester. Start your 7-Day Free Trial of the Momday Pregnancy & Birth Prep App: https://momday.com/pages/momdayappredirect Connect with Momday: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/momday.studio YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@momday.studio

    11 min
  3. Confidence for Labor | Empowering Guided Meditation for Birth

    3 DAYS AGO

    Confidence for Labor | Empowering Guided Meditation for Birth

    Welcome to the Momday Podcast hosted by Ella Dove. This empowering guided meditation is designed to help you build true confidence for labor — not forceful motivation or hype, but steady, regulated confidence rooted in trust, breath, and body awareness. Confidence in birth is not about controlling the outcome. It’s about trusting your ability to respond to whatever arises. In this pregnancy meditation for labor preparation, you’ll practice nervous system regulation through intentional breathwork, reconnect with the strength and adaptability of your body, and visualize yourself moving through contractions with steadiness and flow. You’ll be guided to anchor into the power of your legs, pelvis, uterus, and breath while reinforcing the mind-body connection that supports natural labor. Through grounding body awareness, visualization of rhythmic labor waves, and affirmations for birth confidence, this meditation helps retrain your body to stay calm, fluid, and capable during intensity. When your nervous system is regulated, your body works more efficiently. When your breath is steady, your mind stays clear. Confidence grows from this foundation. This episode supports mental preparation for labor, building trust in your body’s ability to give birth, and strengthening emotional resilience before delivery. Each time you practice, you deepen your ability to meet labor one wave at a time with clarity and strength. You don’t need to create confidence. It already lives within you. ✨ Looking for deeper birth preparation with Momday? If you’re ready to physically prepare your body for the demands of labor, join the Momday App for expert-guided pregnancy workouts, structured birth prep training, and evidence-based education designed to support you through every trimester. Start your 7-Day Free Trial of the Momday Pregnancy & Birth Prep App: https://momday.com/pages/momdayappredirect Connect with Momday: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/momday.studio YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@momday.studio

    13 min
  4. Connect With Your Baby Before Birth | Guided Meditation & Birth Prep Visualization

    3 DAYS AGO

    Connect With Your Baby Before Birth | Guided Meditation & Birth Prep Visualization

    Welcome to the Momday Podcast, in this birth prep guided meditation, hosted by Ella Dove you’ll be guided you through calming breathwork, nervous system regulation, and powerful visualization to deepen the mother-baby connection before birth. From the very beginning, you and your baby have been in constant communication through breath, heartbeat, rhythm, and sensation. This practice helps you tune into that connection so you can enter labor feeling grounded, aligned, and supported. This meditation blends pregnancy relaxation techniques with positive birth affirmations to help reduce anxiety, build trust in your body, and strengthen your bond with your baby in the third trimester. As you breathe slowly and soften your body, you’ll visualize working together through labor. Practice this regularly as part of your birth preparation routine to strengthen your connection, calm your nervous system, and build confidence before meeting your baby. You are not doing birth alone. You and your baby are already working together. ✨ Looking for deeper birth preparation with Momday? If you’re ready to physically prepare your body for the demands of labor, join the Momday App for expert-guided pregnancy workouts, structured birth prep training, and evidence-based education designed to support you through every trimester. Start your 7-Day Free Trial of the Momday Pregnancy & Birth Prep App: https://momday.com/pages/momdayappredirect Connect with Momday: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/momday.studio YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@momday.studio

    14 min
  5. Positive Birth Visualization | Guided Meditation for an Empowering Labor

    3 DAYS AGO

    Positive Birth Visualization | Guided Meditation for an Empowering Labor

    Welcome to the Momday Podcast hosted by Ella Dove. This positive birth visualization meditation is designed to help you mentally and emotionally prepare for an empowering labor experience. Through guided imagery, nervous system regulation, and intentional breathwork, you’ll rehearse the calm, confident state you want to return to during birth. When you vividly visualize an experience, your nervous system responds as if it’s real. This allows your body to practice relaxation, openness, and steady focus before labor even begins. In this guided meditation, you’ll imagine yourself supported, informed, and capable as labor unfolds — from early sensations to active labor, transition, pushing, and finally meeting your baby for the first time. This episode supports mental preparation for birth, reducing labor anxiety, building birth confidence, and strengthening trust in your body’s ability to give birth. You’ll visualize moving through contractions with breath and fluid movement, making empowered decisions, feeling supported by your birth team, and staying grounded through intensity. This is not about scripting a perfect birth. It’s about building resilience, adaptability, and self-trust so you can meet your labor with steadiness no matter how it unfolds. Each time you return to this practice, you reinforce a neurological blueprint of calm, confidence, and empowerment that your body can access during labor. ✨ Looking for deeper birth preparation with Momday? If you’re ready to physically prepare your body for the demands of labor, join the Momday App for expert-guided pregnancy workouts, structured birth prep training, and evidence-based education designed to support you through every trimester. Start your 7-Day Free Trial of the Momday Pregnancy & Birth Prep App: https://momday.com/pages/momdayappredirect Connect with Momday: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/momday.studio YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@momday.studio

    17 min
  6. Releasing Fear for Birth | Guided Meditation for Birth Anxiety

    3 DAYS AGO

    Releasing Fear for Birth | Guided Meditation for Birth Anxiety

    Welcome to the Momday Podcast hosted by Ella Dove. If you’re feeling anxious about labor or carrying fear around birth, this guided meditation is designed to help you release tension, regulate your nervous system, and prepare your body for a calmer, more confident birth experience. In this pregnancy meditation for birth anxiety, you’ll learn how fear activates the fight-or-flight response and how intentional breathing shifts your body into safety. Through parasympathetic breathwork, body scanning, jaw and pelvic floor relaxation, and visualization of contractions as purposeful waves of energy, you’ll begin retraining your body to soften instead of brace. Fear during pregnancy is normal, but birth unfolds best when the body feels safe and supported. This meditation helps you practice surrendering to sensation, breathing through intensity, and replacing fear with trust. Each time you return to this practice, you strengthen the neurological pathway your body can access during labor. You are not battling contractions. You are working with your body’s ancient rhythm. You are designed for this. ✨ Looking for deeper birth preparation with Momday? If you’re ready to physically prepare your body for the demands of labor, join the Momday App for expert-guided pregnancy workouts, structured birth prep training, and evidence-based education designed to support you through every trimester. Start your 7-Day Free Trial of the Momday Pregnancy & Birth Prep App: https://momday.com/pages/momdayappredirect Connect with Momday: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/momday.studio YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@momday.studio

    14 min
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Momday brings you guided meditations for pregnancy, birth prep, and postpartum. Hosted by Ella Dove, this podcast blends evidence-informed birth education, nervous system regulation, breathwork, positive affirmations, and subconscious preparation to help you feel empowered, confident, and ready for birth. These meditations support mental preparation for labor, helping reduce anxiety, strengthen resilience, improve pain coping, and guide your body back to a calm, regulated state when intensity builds. Each episode is designed to build trust in your body, deepen your connection, and prepare you emotionally and physically for one of life’s most powerful transitions.

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