Your body and your baby’s body are designed to facilitate labor and birth (assuming all is well with physical, psychological, and physiological processes). Your uterus contracts, your cervix opens, your pelvis expands, your baby’s head molds, and your body releases the necessary hormones to facilitate the entire process of labor and birth. The majority of doubts and limitations related to the birthing process derive from our minds and our ego. Maintaining a strong mental state wrapped in confidence and full of the “universal life force” is essential to laboring and birthing with confidence and ease. Practicing Hypnobirthing during pregnancy and utilizing Hypnobirthing during labor and delivery helps in maintaining a mental direction that encourages you to focus on trusting your body and your baby and releasing any mental or ego-bound limitations.

On Friday, August 18, 2017, I started having what seemed like really heavy period cramps. I brushed it off, because this was the usual every month. But then it started to radiate to my back then down my legs. I immediately thought, “OMG I MIGHT BE PREGNANT!” I was so excited, but scared. I had no idea what normal was. I called my boss and went to Walgreens, took a pregnancy test in the restroom of Walgreens, and sure enough, positive.

I called Juan on FaceTime, and I showed him the test (since I was still in the restroom) and I said, “WE’RE PREGNANT!” We both cried, and we were so happy.

The worst part of the pain for me was not being able to explain it. There was no understandable reason why I lost them, just that they weren’t here anymore. I had to know. I was completely obsessed with finding the reason, while simultaneously feeling like a bad mother for not just focusing on the two children I’d already been blessed with.

Oh, how my heart already loved and cherished this little one! God had already been doing a work in my heart and revealing more of His character to me. I was learning that my fear, doubt, and jealousy stemmed from something I wasn’t believing about God. I wasn’t believing that He was giving me His best life for ME. Of this disbelief, I repented, and from that I found so much freedom. I learned with this pregnancy that God promises the fullness of life and the fullness of life cannot possibly include fear.

Tranquil Seasons is now Rooted Birth San Antonio Doula Collective! Tranquil Seasons has been serving expecting families in SATX for the last 10 years. We’ve had the pleasure of journeying with so many families in our community! In 2020, we want to keep doing just that: nurturing families in the prenatal and postpartum period, and providing excellent care through this huge life transition.