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Mental Preparation Worksheet
A guided worksheet for naming birth fears, mapping coping cues, and giving your support team specific language to use when labor gets intense. Includes trauma-informed prompts for people with previous difficult births or medical trauma.
Mental healthPlanning
What's inside
- Fear-mapping prompts (what, when, and what would help)
- Coping-cue library — words and touch that ground you
- A one-page 'how to support me' card for your partner or doula
- Trauma-informed prompts for previous birth or medical trauma
Use it when
- You're feeling anxious in the third trimester
- You've had a previous difficult birth or medical trauma
- Your partner wants to know exactly what to say in labor
Educational only. This handout supports informed conversations with your care team — it doesn't diagnose or replace clinical care. LlaMamma is not affiliated with ACOG, WHO, or Cochrane; those organizations are cited as evidence sources.
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