Holy moly, it’s March. That means our baby is due! Next week in fact! (Insert stunned emoji faces) I can’t believe she could really come any day now! And I can’t believe that soon I will be experiencing labor for the first time. I have to admit, that sounds pretty scary! That’s why I really wanted to create a calming birthing playlist full of music that would remind me that God is taking care of me.
Of course, when the time comes, who knows what it will be like. Perhaps it will go so fast that I won’t have time to play any music. Or perhaps it will take so long, I’ll get tired of hearing the same songs over and over! I may love having music playing in the background to soothe me, or I may find it really annoying. Who knows!
But either way, I wanted to have a playlist created in case I did want some calming music to play during contractions. I love the idea of having worship music playing, especially when Raylee takes her first breath of earthly air.
Songs for a Birthing Playlist
Here are the songs I’ve chosen to play during labor and delivery:
Fall Afresh by Jeremy Riddle
Sweetly Broken by Jeremy Riddle
Rescue by Desperation Band
I Surrender by Hillsong Worship
What a Beautiful Name by Hillsong Worship
Beneath the Waters (I Will Rise) by Hillsong Worship
Miracles by Kari Jobe
I am Not Alone by Kari Jobe
You Are God Alone by Phillips, Craig, and Dean
I Will Rise by Chris Tomlin
Waiting Here for You by Christy Nickels
Word of God Speak by MercyMe
We Will Run/He is Here by Gungor (A Creation Liturgy)
Come Alive (Dry Bones) by Lauren Daigle
First by Lauren Daigle
Filled With Your Glory by Starfield
My All in All by Phil Wickham
Thank God by Alanna Story
My Malady by Alanna Story
You Make me Brave by Bethel Music, Amanda Lindsey Cook
Singing Over Me by Kari Jobe
The More I Seek You by Klaus, Kari Jobe
It Is Well by Bethel Music, Kristene Dimarco
It Is Well with my Soul by Audrey Assad
What would you add to this list? Do you have a favorite worship song? If you’ve given birth before, did you play music?
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I am so excited for you! I pray that you will have a fast and uneventful labor and delivery of your healthy baby. 🙂
I had a few songs that I thought about making a playlist with and I also had some lavender essential oil my sister gave me that I was planning to sprinkle on cotton balls to help relax me during the labor. I wanted to try out various labor positions, too, like on the exercise/labor ball and what-not.
But my little one came two weeks early and labor was extremely fast. (It was only 2.5 hours from the time my water broke to when they laid him on my tummy.) There was no time to even open our half-packed “go bag”!
If you don’t mind, I would like to share with you what my mom told me a few days before my water broke. I’m not sure if you are planning a natural birth, medically assisted birth, or c-section but perhaps this will help. It helped me. My mom said: “I won’t lie. It will be painful, perhaps the most painful thing you will ever experience. But unlike other pains, this pain is only temporary. It will end and when it ends, you will have the most beautiful gift: a baby. YOUR baby. And when you hold your baby, the pain will fade away.”
I suspect that when pregnant, there are subtle changes to how our brain perceives pain, because I noticed as I got closer to my due date, things that would have hurt or caused me to say “Ow!” did not feel so painful. About a month postpartum, those same things once again were painful. Labor and delivery was still the most painful thing I have ever done in my entire life. I delivered without any pain medicine. I wanted to try it without medicine anyway, but I also dilated so fast that by the time I was in the delivery room, the nurse said: “I’m sorry, honey, but I hope you wanted to go natural because you’re passed the point where we can give pain medicine. This is all you. You are doing this.” There was a moment of sheer terror/panic before I said a prayer and composed myself. (“I can do this! I totally can do this!”) But it was all worth it. 😀
Labor and delivery, especially when you get to the pushing part, is a full-body thing. If possible, breathe deep and let your body do what it was designed to do. You will know what position is most comfortable for you and when to push. That feeling of “I have to push now” is overwhelmingly strong.
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Jacquelyn, Thank you so much for all that advice! My mom has actually told me something very similar! I can’t believe you did it all so fast! That’s pretty amazing! I think the unknown of when and how and how long and all that is the part that scares us the most. I’ve been trying to be really intentional lately about praying for this delivery. I’ve been praying for my baby, but now it’s time to start praying for that day when it’s go-time! I’ve been praying God will remind me that I was created to do this and that He’ll give me the strength and courage to get through it. I get really emotional when I think of them placing my baby girl on my chest! I cannot wait! I know it will be worth all the pain in the world!
Sounds like the Lord is blessing you with a calming spirit! He will surely give you the strength and courage you will need for your special birth experience with your little girl. 🙂
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Yes I played music when I had you. Well before my surgery anyway.
I’d recommend “singing over me” by Kari Jobe
I love hearing it and it reminds me of your favorite Bible verse.
Great list you put together!
Looking it up right now! Thanks!
Great playlist!
I love these also:
Loyal – Lauren Daigle
How Can I Keep From Singing – Chris Tomlin
You Make Me Brave – Bethel Worship
This is Amazing Grace – Bethel Worship
Glory to Glory – Matthew Williams
There are so many amazing ones…Another one that is a contagious song for me by a local artist that is now a Missionary in Brazil is Roar of the Lion by Nic and Rachel Billman.
Will be praying over you and this precious baby!
Thank you so much for those awesome suggestions Dawn!
Tremble by Mosaic is a new one I just heard…amazing.