This visualisation will move through the following stages:
Relaxation.
Physical signs of prelabour.
The environment you are prelabouring in.
Awareness of emotions.
Your baby during prelabour.
Ending the visualisation.
Your recording may follow this direction,
"Gently close your eyes... listen to your breathing. Let your breathing become a little deeper... relaxed and in your own rhythm. As you breathe in ... you take oxygen into your body, and as you breathe out, you are breathing out what you don't need. You breathe out carbon dioxide, your body filters out all you don't need and takes in the oxygen you need.
As you breathe in... you take oxygen into your body, to your placenta, the oxygen travels from the placenta, along the cord and to your baby. As you breathe out, you breathe out what you and your baby don't need........... breathing out your carbon dioxide, your stress, your tension, your worries.
Imagine with your next breath out, breathing out any tension..... tension you have been holding onto during the day, the night or during the week.
With your next breath out, imagine breathing out any tension you may be holding from your left shoulder, all the way down through your arm to the elbow...... through the lower arm down through the wrist and hand, right out through your fingertips. Feel your arm beginning to let go, feeling heavy... feel it relax more and more with each breath out.
With your next breath out, breathe out any tension from your right shoulder, all the way down through your right arm.... all the way down to the wrist and hand, right out through your finger tips, so that the right arm too is heavy and completely relaxed.
Now move your attention down to your left hip, once again breathing out any tension from that hip all the way down through the thigh....