Birth Encouragement

These quotes and verses serve to bring encouragement to you as you prepare for the birth of your baby. Because pregnancy loss is still birth, these affirmations and encouragements are borrowed from childbirth websites (sources at end) and in fact are more fitting here than anywhere else.

As for you, be strong and courageous, for your work will be rewarded. ~ 2 Chronicles 15:7

”If I don’t know my options, I don’t have any.” ~ Diana Korte

God arms me with strength, and he makes my way perfect. ~ Psalm 18:32

“There is a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.” ~ Laura Stavoe Harm

The Lord will fight for you… ~Exodus 14:14a

“It seems that many health professionals involved in antenatal care have not realized that one of their roles should be to protect the emotional state of pregnant women.” ~Michel Odent, M.D.

God is our refuge and strength, an ever present help in time of trouble. ~ Psalm 46:1

“The effort to separate the physical experience of childbirth from the mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of this event has served to disempower and violate women.” ~Mary Rucklos Hampton

The Lord your God is with you wherever you go. ~Joshua 1:9

“Fear can be overcome only by Faith.” ~Grantly Dick-Read, M.D.

Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love. ~Lamentations 3:44

Verses borrowed from: Scriptures for Childbirth

Quotes borrowed from: Birth Without Fear

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BIRTH & BEREAVEMENT QUOTES

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She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

— C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

I am strong.

— January, founder of Birth Without Fear

When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there’s a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she’s gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.

— John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.

— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

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