Lori Bregman, Pregnancy Coach and Founder of Rooted for Life, leads clients through a natural and holistic process of prepping to conceive and achieving healthy pregnancies. The following is an excerpt from Lori's Rooted for Life Blog.

A Holistic Approach to Conceiving: Steps for Prepping for Pregnancy Body, Mind & Sprit

1. PREPPING FOR PREGNANCY: ENERGETICALLY BECOMING PREGNANT

"The best way to get something done is to begin." Unknown

In order to be, first you must become.

For a lot of woman it takes finding out that they are pregnant for them to begin taking better care of themselves. The healthy we are in our bodies mind and spirit, the healthier our children will be in theirs. Just like planting a seed in a garden; the better nourished the soil, the more vibrant that seed will grow.

With in the first few weeks of pregnancy the structure of your baby is being formed.  By getting your self-ready for pregnancy not only are you creating a foundation for yourself to become a mother but also a laying a solid foundation for your baby to grow from.  I always say start the work of preparing your body a few months before you start trying to conceive, however, the longer you prep the better prepared you and your baby will be.

TREAT YOURSELF AND YOUR BODY AS IF YOU ARE ALREADY PREGNANT

By doing this you are energetically manifesting a child. What you think and feel you become. Thought = action = form, so first energetically become pregnant and soon the physical manifestation will follow.

VISUALIZATION EXERCISE

Do this everyday (consistency is best) for 5-10 min while in the prepping stage. You can also do this while pregnant but instead of beaming this picture and feeling out into the world beam it straight into your belly sending it right to your baby.

1.VISUALIZE yourself pregnant, see your self holding your child in your arms, use your imagination you might see yourself feeding, kissing holding, rocking or reading to your child. Maybe you see you and your partner together with your child doing a project or playing. What ever you see make it your own, let your imagination run wild.

2. FEEL your child growing and kicking inside of you, feel your baby in your arms while you are holding, feel in your heart the love you have, feel what its like to be a mother caring for something so deeply, let that love beam from your heart filling up every part and inch of your body.

3. RADIATE AND BEAM that feeling and picture by projecting it from your mind and body out into the world.

*Question everything: If you were already pregnant what would you change and do different in your life? When I prep women for pregnancy I have them do and live their lives as if they were already pregnant.

Lets really take time to think about this. Chances are if you were pregnant some of the things you might be doing would be

• Taking a pre natal vitamin that is rich in nutrients that will nourish your body and your developing baby.

• Cutting out alcohol, smoking and drugs.

• Clean up your diet to whole organic foods.

• Get rid of toxins in your home.
• Exercise moderately.
• Rest and nap when you are tired.
• Read pregnancy and parenting books

STARTING TODAY, WHAT CHANGES IN YOUR LIFE COULD YOU START TO MAKE TOWARDS BECOMING AND LIVING PREGNANT?

2. PREPPING FOR PREGNANCY BODY, MIND AND SPIRIT

PAY ATTENTION TO ANY NEGATIVE BELIEFS AND PROJECTIONS ABOUT BECOMING PREGNANT.

Each one of us carries with in us certain beliefs that shape and eventually become our reality. Some of these are our own and yet others are imposed by society, family, media, teachers and well-meaning friends who have projected them on to us. Knowing that our beliefs help shape our reality believing that you will have a hard time conceiving or not being able to get pregnant, most likely you probably will have a hard time. In today’s world there is so much fear put on to woman about getting pregnant when older. Yes, STATICALLY they say the older you get the harder it is to get pregnant and maintain a healthy pregnancy, however the statistics are just that a bunch of numbers. I know plenty of woman in their20’s that have a hard time conceiving and then clients and friends in their later 40’s that got pregnant the first time they tried. How often do you here the stories about women in Africa having babies in their 50’s, why? Maybe because they never knew that they couldn’t. What I am saying is its individual. Just because 1 or 2 people had a hard time doesn’t necessarily that mean you will . I went to my doctor the other day (Dr Verma) she says she spends most of the time deprogramming her clients from the projections of society. Most of the time she tells me nothing is wrong with her clients, hormones are perfect and balanced, ultrasound and any tests looks amazing and maybe they try for one month or two to get pregnant and nothing happens (maybe because they aren’t aware of their cycle of when their fertile time of the month is –I will touch more on this in blogs to follow) … BOOM fear and stress sets in wrecking havoc on their bodies throwing their hormones completely out of whack. I also know Igirl in her 30’s that was trying for a few months to get pregnant when her mother told her she was saving money for her because she “KNEW “ she was going to have to do in vitro. I also had a client of mine that was 41 in perfect health and had a normal  healthy cycle and with out even testing her eggs or hormones the doctor told her if she wanted to get pregnant she would most likely need an egg donor. Talk  about planting negative seeds and projecting!

SOMETHING TO PONDER: Becoming aware of beliefs and projections...and knowing the difference.

Ask yourself the following questions and really give yourself time to reflect on each.

• Are there any negative beliefs you carry inside about getting pregnant? 

• Are these beliefs yours? Are they really true?

• If yes, why do you believe 'X'? Where did that belief come from?

• If no, then whose beliefs are they?

• What belief seems true for you? How do you feel about holding that belief?

3. GET RID OF THE OLD TO MAKE SPACE FOR THE NEW

It is impossible for anything new to come in if there is no space in your life for it. How many of us are uncomfortable with space?  I definitely was!! I would rush from friend to friend, client to client, job to job, vacation to vacation running never stopping filling every possible bit of space in my life up. If I wasn’t working instead of resting or taking time for myself, I was giving healing and coaching advise to friends over lunch or while hiking, or on my BlackBerry emailing clients and friends, booking appointments, dates or doing unnecessary texting. Until one day I woke up and couldn’t move. I had totally blown my adrenals. I am a big believer that your body will always give you signals when it’s headed for trouble, well before the trouble strikes. Well, needless to say I didn’t pay attention to the whispers and now it was shouting at me to stop, slow down and make space in my life. I spent months totally depleted and depressed because there was so much new that I had been wanting and trying to bring into my life but I was so exhausted that I was paralyzed, unable to get anywhere.
One day I had enough, knowing I couldn’t live like this anymore I stopped and began rearranging my life. I carved out hours of space each day in which I did not allow myself to do anything work / client related. At first this was really uncomfortable. I didn’t know what to do with all this time and space in my life. In the beginning, I’d just sit, feel and process all the painful things that I was running from. Slowly I started connecting back into myself, and became aware of how much energy I gave away. I began to look at who and what zapped my energy and was filling up space and sucking the oxygen out of my life. I put space between those people and things, I started to set boundaries. I began to have energy again, creative juices started flowing and I began to write. For a long time I felt stagnant wanting all this new to come in and finally thru this space new doors and beginnings started to open for me. While meditating I would see a bubble hovering over me filled with all the new tying to land somewhere in my life, it would try to squeeze in and land somewhere but the space was too small, I now see the bubble has landed and popped and all the juicy newness is beginning to fill up the empty space. I once heard that when there is space the universe will always fill it. Nature abhors a vacuum. It might not happen right away but eventually that space will get filled. If we hang on to the old that no longer serves us the new has no room to come in.
I think of a baby before it’s conceived just like I saw that bubble of newness. How can that little soul come into your life if there is no room or space for it?

SOMETHING TO PONDER: Where are you filling up space in your life unnecessarily?

Who and what no longer serves you and is taking up space in your life?

• Who or what drains your energy? Who or what nourishes you and makes you feel good and alive? (I say pull back from the drainers and go towards where you feel alive)

• What emotions do you reject or avoid feeling?

• When you create space in your life what thoughts/emotions comes up for you? Are you scared, bored, lonely, sad? (Journal and write about the feelings this will help you process and clear them to allow more space in your life.)

• Where can you make space in your life for your future child to come in? (For example: In your home, heart, physical energy or relationship?)