Fertility Affirmations Week by week

These affirmations are designed to correspond to the various  physical stages of the reproductive cycle and the different emotional issues that may arise during the TTC (Trying To Conceive) journey.

How to use affirmations - 
  • Let them in deeply:  The more you can take your time to let the words sink in, the better.  Let the words settle in, let the images become vivid.  Pause for a slow easy breath after each statement.  See if you can feel the truth of these words sinking in, deep into your body....into your heart, your soul, your bones.  Imagine that you are breathing them into your body with your breath. Or imagine you are drinking them in like a refreshing glass of water on a warm day.
  • Find a way to practice often:  Put your affirmations in a place that you can access them easily.  Copy them to a notepad on your phone, or put them in your wallet. Better yet, make an audio recording and play it back for yourself during idle times, while doing chores or while falling asleep at night.  If you make a recording, take your time reading the statements, and pause for at least the length of one slow breath between each one.  
  • Customize:  Delete those that don't resonate with you, add ones that do.  Make it your own.

Week 1: Menstrual Phase / Cleaning House

This phase begins with the arrival of menstrual flow and concludes with the end of flow.  The uterine lining is shedding, follicles are growing, and eggs are maturing.  

Theme:  Clearing

Goals:  The goal during this stage is to support the complete release of the lining to create clear space for new growth.

Compatible Activities:
  1. Clearing and organizing your home space.
  2. Simplifying and destressing your life
  3. Getting rid of old things you no longer need.
  4. Laying out plans for new creative projects.
  5. Doing something to pamper yourself or to help yourself feel cleansed and refreshed.

Affirmations:
  1. I am whole, vibrant and fertile.
  2. I breathe expansively into my body.
  3.  I feed myself nourishing food to support new growth.
  4. I create space for replenishing sleep.
  5. I move my body and stimulate circulation to support my body’s capacity to create new life.
  6. My womb is releasing its lining to create a clear space for new growth of a new healthy lining which may become my baby's nurturing home.
  7. As the old lining is released, any feelings of sadness and loss about this ending are also released, leaving room for new possibilities for all that lies ahead.
  8. Many eggs are growing and ripening as my hormones are preparing to release one ideal healthy egg for its wondrous journey to meet its seed.
  9. My ripening eggs have beautifully aligned chromosomes, prepared to divide in perfect symmetry.
  10. I invite love and grace with every step of my day.
  11. I feel deep love and appreciation for my close family and friends.
  12. I nourish those around me and I nourish myself.
  13. I am inviting this baby into our lives.
  14. I will welcome this baby from a place deep in my heart and my soul.
  15. I trust that my body knows how to do this and with my dedication to taking care of my body, it will find its way to creating this new life. 
  16. I feel light and graceful.  
  17. I live from a place of lightness and openness in my heart.

Week 2: Preparing for Ovulation / Building the Nest

This phase begins after the menstrual flow ends and continues until ovulation.  

Theme:  Building

Goals:  The goals are to support blood circulation to build a thick lining, support hormone balance to facilitate the egg ripening and releasing, create a fertile environment for the seeds to be spread and to hang out while waiting for the egg.  Positive, uplifting, invigorating energy is especially fitting for this stage.

Compatible activities:
  1. Creative projects
  2. Playful activities that stimulate the senses (aromatherpy, cooking with fresh herbs, a bubble bath)
  3. A special date night or a romantic getaway
  4. Belly laughter
  5. Moderately vigorous exercise (power walking, hiking..)

Affirmations:

  1. My baby’s home has been cleared and cleansed. It is ready for the building of new lining which will support and surround it as it grows in my womb. 
  2. Like cozy soft blankets lining a puppy’s bed, my lining will be a warm safe place for a newly fertilized egg to snuggle in.
  3. My follicles are growing and my eggs are ripening.  
  4. My ripening eggs have beautifully aligned chromosomes that can grow in a balanced, healthy fashion.  
  5. A symphony of hormones are playing beautifully together in my body to coax forth a flood of fertile juices that will nourish and welcome the seeds that will be spread by my loving partner.
  6. My heart is filled with love and gratitude for my partner. 
  7. I long to connect with my partner on a deep, primal level.
  8. I can create space to honor our relationship and play together.
  9. I create space to rest and restore my physical body.
  10. I nourish my body with healthy food and ample water.
  11. Regular exercise helps to center my mind and stimulates healthy circulation to support hormone balance and blood flow to my uterus, my baby’s future home.
  12. I choose to let go of distractions that can pull energy away from my primary purpose--to create a fertile home for my baby.
  13. Toward the end of this week, a surge of hormones will trigger the release of a beautiful healthy egg ready to be fertilized by seeds that have been eagerly waiting.
  14. A single strong, healthy seed will join the egg, and the miracle of a new life may then begin.
  15. I can feel vibrant energy stirring within me.
  16. Creative activities enliven my sense that new growth and new manifestations of all kinds are happening around me and within me at this very moment.
  17. I breathe in gentle nourishing breaths, trusting my body to find its path toward the miracle of creating new life.

Week 3: Fertilization to Implantation / Preparing to receive

This phase begins once ovulation has occurred and continues for about seven days, during which the egg travels toward the uterus then implants if it has been fertilized.  

Theme:  Nesting

Goals:  Build lining, relax, rest, nourish, support circulation

Compatible activities: 
  1. Beautifying the home space. Making your home warm, cozy and inviting.  
  2. Fluid movements such as dancing, walking, gentle yoga.  
  3. Small gestures of kindness toward others
  4. Reflective, nurturing personal retreat time for self-care.
  5. Creative projects.

Affirmations:
  1. My uterine lining is growing thicker and thicker creating a warm blanket for my fertilized egg to snuggle into. 
  2. My egg has found its mate and is cruising along with grace and ease, cells dividing with perfect alignment. 
  3. Hormones are dancing together, preparing my body for the grand arrival of this beautiful egg into my womb. 
  4. Daily gentle exercise helps my body build a cozy, secure home for my baby. 
  5. I stay calm throughout my day and I make space for ample rest. 
  6. Just as a mother bird carefully builds her nest one twig at a time, I thoughtfully choose nourishing foods that will be transformed into a rich and secure home for my baby.
  7. At nighttime I know that the most important thing I can do to support my baby is to rest and restore, allowing my body to do its magic while I sleep.
  8. When negative energy comes my way, I find creative ways to deflect or transform it so that I can hold a positive energy space that will cradle my precious egg as it arrives in my womb.    
  9. My heart is open and expansive.  I am ready to receive this gift….and I am ready to give my heart fully to this new being.
  10. I enjoy reflecting on positive things taht are presently in my life for which I am deeply grateful.
  11. I look for ways to bring lightness and joy into each and every day.
  12. I feel a warmth inside me that radiates a subtle glow of wellness that I carry with me throughout my day and into the night.
  13. I am kind and gentle toward myself.
  14. I can see my own uniqueness and celebrate the beauty that emanates from within my being.
  15. I believe in my body's capacity to create new, joyful life.
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Week 4: Implantation to BFP / Receiving and Nurturing
This phase begins around seven days post-ovulation and continues until a positive pregnancy is detected.  If a cycle is looking like it will be a negative cycle, you might skip to Week 4 Alternate Set or Cycle Transition (see below).  

Theme:  Receiving & Embracing
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Goals: Healthy cell division, adequate progesterone, nourishing, receiving, staying calm

​Affirmations:
  1. My fertilized egg has arrived and is nestling into my welcoming womb.
  2. A flurry of hormones are being released to support this budding new life.
  3. Like a mother bird keeping her egg warm, I put energy toward keeping my nest safe and warm.  
  4. Gentle physical activity keeps nourishing blood following strongly through my uterus.   
  5. I eat healthy food and drink ample water to support all that my body is doing to sustain this miraculous new growth.
  6. I create space for peaceful rest.
  7. I can let go of my desire to see evidence of what is happening in my body as I trust that things are happening just as they should be in this moment.
  8. Now is the time to accept what is, and part of that is not knowing.  
  9. I trust that my baby will come to me at the right time.
  10. I find heartfelt ways to offer kindness toward others.
  11. I feel gratitude for the many blessings around me.
  12. I can see beauty around me in my everyday surroundings.  Ray of sunshine,  a fluffy cloud, or a the morning dew... Birds chirping or a flower blooming....
  13. I create playful space to engage in things that bring me joy and laughter.
  14. My heart is opening and softening as I breathe into my experience in this moment.

Week 4 Alternate Set: Not looking promising

For those who are closely following their fertility rhythms, charting basal body temperatures and observing subtle signs, it often becomes evident days before the end of the cycle when the cycle is not leading to a pregnancy.  When you are pretty sure the cycle is ending, it can feel pointless to hold positive images of pregnancy happening in your body.  But you can never be quite certain until AF appears, so it's also not ideal to assume it's over til the strong lady sings.  I've written these affirmations to help create some ease and calm through during this difficult phase.
  1. My longing for a child is so deep that I'm inclined to reach and grab for any shred of hope and recoil at any sign of defeat.  But now is the time to accept what is, and part of that is not knowing.  
  2. I trust that my baby will come to me at the right time.
  3. I don't know what my future holds but I can picture holding my baby in 37 weeks. 
  4. At this difficult time, I can hold myself in loving, compassionate arms.
  5. Perhaps a new life has already begun, and tiny cells are dividing, the start of a new life growing within my nurturing womb.
  6. And while the curtain might close on this scene without the ending I am hoping for, strong healthy eggs are waiting in the wings for their turn to come out and play.
  7. I can embrace many blessings in my life as I patiently wait to meet my baby.

Cycle transition: AF is definitely coming or has arrived

For those who have been on the TTC journey for some time, the arrival of the menstrual flow can be tinged with great pain and sorrow. I believe that it is very important to take time to honor these feelings.  When we let ourselves grieve we create more space for new possibilities.  
  1. As the curtain closes on this scene without the joyful end I had hoped for, I can let my authentic feelings flow.  I am in the theater of truth where all my feelings are valid.
  2. I can breathe into my pain and sorrow.  
  3. I can breathe into my hope and yearning.  
  4. When I embrace my feelings and express them freely, I feel my wholeness and my humanness.  
  5. Placing one hand over my heart and one hand over my womb,  I send loving, compassionate energy deep into my being.  
  6. As I look to the stage, the darkness is gradually lifting, the curtains are opening, and I can see numerous bright-eyed eggs waiting in the wings, eager for their turn to come out and play in this next scene.
  7. I am whole, vibrant and fertile.
  8. I can embrace many blessings in my life as I patiently wait to meet my baby.
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