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3. Be mindful of your thoughts and emotions as you go about your massage. As you are breaking up the scar tissue, it is a great time to break through some of those difficult emotions that you might be holding onto regarding how your birth experience turned out. Give yourself time, as you go through the massage, to really reflect on the things that come and process them.
Ultimately, I pray that whenever it is time for our second child to come into this world that their birth will be a safe one and that we will both be healthy and happy. Ideally, I’d love for that to be a vaginal birth and I plan on doing everything within my power to achieve that. These are the main things I’m doing to prepare for that journey when it comes. Perhaps you’ll find some of these things helpful in your own preparation as well.
In the name of God, the most Compassionate, the Wise In January, I wrote a post about the courting process, so today I figured we’ll jump back a step and…