Pregnancy is about more than the body; it deeply influences a woman’s feelings and identity. During my growing pregnancy and those baby kicks, something holy takes place. It doesn’t just affect your body, but your spirit as well. Once we’ve framed pregnancy and birth that way, it affects everything else for us.
Finding Ways to Celebrate Pregnancy as Special
Because our lives and health are so much a part of the medical system today, it’s easy to overlook that pregnancy used to be celebrated and trusted by many. Sacred pregnancy helps us rediscover what is true about ourselves. You don’t need to be good at everything to do parenting. It’s all about taking part in the moment. Start paying attention to your body, your child, and the things you know are right for you.
Try a silent building of a moment of time within your day to put your hands on the belly, breathe deep, and enjoy this little stretch of time with the baby. You might want to write down your thoughts, light a candle to begin your day, or meet with a few women to share what you are going through. This is something you will have to come to for yourself. That is what makes it sacred in an ever-changing fashion for every individual.
Sacred Birth: More Than Just the Moment
The concept of sacred birth isn’t based on where or how you are giving birth. It’s not just for home births or candlelight tubs. Sacred birth is about the way you feel—empowered, supported, and witnessed. It’s about respecting the feelings associated with labor: the strength, the fear, the release, the joy.
Perhaps for you, sacred birthing is your favorite tune playing softly in the background. Perhaps it’s a mantra spoken softly between contractions. Perhaps it’s the softness of a doula who maintains space for you when words escape you. Whatever it is, sacred birth respects you as the central participant in this amazing instant of co-creation.
Why It Matters
And when we make space for the sacred, something changes. Birth becomes more than a medical procedure—it becomes a tale you’ll carry with you for the rest of your life. A tale your child will sense in their bones, even if they never hear it spoken.
Sacred birthing is not perfect. It is present. It is trust. It is remembering that bringing new life into the world is an act of absolute magic, and you are the vessel in which it resides.
