When I was pregnant with my daughter, I was talking with my doula (a close friend of mine) about various techniques for staying calm during the birth. At the time, a certain style of meme was pretty common on the Internet, and if I recall correctly, people were doing “Personal Affirmation Skeletor” as an ironic (?) takedown of the “live, laugh, love” family of motivational posters.
So I decided to embrace the idea and run with it. Here are my Skeletor Birth Affirmations.
There were others, but they are sadly lost to the ravages of time and the inability of text-as-image meme generators to have meaningful indexing. (Maybe things are better nowadays. I am really happy how easy it was to put alt-text on these images in this post!) Anyway, I hope you all enjoy these. Maybe you can use them in your own birth plan someday.
Emilybook 