Application for Birth

For the Love of Baby


An Application for Birth


*I find this worksheet intriguing. It comes from the book Christ Centered Childbirth by Kelly J Townsend. I have heard so many people out there say... "There should be an application that one has to fill out before they are *allowed* to have children!"

In my opinion... it would be wise for birthing women to fill this worksheet out. Your birth choices show your heart and prep you for parenthood.

Search your heart as you read this... fill in the answers in your own journal or prayer book. Or feel free to print this page out and reflect on them. If after you have answered the questions, you reread them and find an answer that does not sit well with your spirit or sounds contradictory with the Word, ask God to help you visit the idea of change.

Love is patient, love is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek it's own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails. 

(Paraphrased from Corinthians 13)



   List 3 examples of patience during birth: (love is patient)

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   List 3 kind things you can do for you baby during birth: (love is kind)

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   List 3 consequences to comparing your birth with that of your friends/relatives: (love does not envy)\

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   List 3 benefits of privacy during birth: (love does not parade itself)

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   List 3 prideful things that might hinder your progress in birth: (is not puffed up)

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   List 3 rude behaviors by birthing women that you have heard about and how you will avoid them: (does not behave rudely)

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   List 3 selfish things that a woman could do that might jeopardize the baby or the birth: (does not seek its own)

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   List 3 possible things that could happen that go against your birth plan and how you might respond graciously to them.: (is not provoked)

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   List 3 positive thoughts to entertain during a contraction: (thinks no evil)

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   List 3 truths about normal childbirth that may be distorted by popular stories: (does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in truth)

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   Explain why it is important to bear with the contractions in a way that does not resist the efforts if the body, and give one example of how to do this. (bears all things)








List 3 truths about normal childbirth that you fully believe: (believes all things)

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   List 3 of you most important hopes for this birth: (hopes all things)

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   Explain why enduring the work of childbirth is an act of love for your baby. (endures all things)







   Explain why there are no failures in birth! (love never fails)





I hope you find this worksheet worth exploring. This worksheet was taken in it's entirely from the book Christ Centered Childbirth and was written by Kelly J Townsend. 
   


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