15/11/2025
🌿 Simple Ways to Create a Supportive Birth Environment 🌿
✨ Dim the lights
Soft, warm lighting helps your body produce oxytocin. Use:
• salt lamps
• battery candles
• string lights
• turn off overhead lights when possible
🎧 Limit unnecessary noise
Ask for:
• quiet voices
• minimal hallway traffic
• door closed
Bring headphones or a speaker for calming music.
👀 Create a sense of privacy
Privacy tells your nervous system you’re safe. Try:
• fewer people in the room
• curtains closed
• birthing in the shower or bathroom if you need space
• a sign on the door requesting limited interruptions
🏡 Bring familiar comforts from home
Your brain relaxes with things it recognizes:
• your own pillow or blanket
• essential oils you love suitable for pregnancy (lavender, citrus, grounding blends)
• birth affirmations
• comfortable clothing or robe
👃 Use your senses intentionally
Sight, smell, sound, and touch influence your hormones.
• dim visuals
• soothing music
• calming scents (if allowed)
• warm water, massage, or counter-pressure
👭 Build a supportive birth team
Choose people who make you feel strong, respected, and emotionally safe.
Your team should protect your space, not disrupt it.
🌿 Reduce the feeling of being observed
If possible:
• ask staff to cluster care
• limit cervical checks
• ask for monitors that allow movement
• face away from busy areas or cover monitors
💃🏻 Move freely
Freedom of movement helps your body cope with sensations and encourages progress.
Use:
• birth ball
• walking
• leaning
• squatting
• hands-and-knees
• dance it out
💪🏻 Advocate for your preferences ahead of time
Include environmental preferences in your birth preferences :
• lighting
• music
• interruptions
• who is allowed in
• communication style
💖 Protect your emotional space
Choose people who believe in you and speak gently.
Your emotional environment is just as powerful as the physical one.
Happy Saturday everyone,
Nic 💕
