Her name & 26 week update

I am excited to share our baby girls name. I am so in love with her name and its meaning. It didnt take long for use to decide on this name, as soon as it came to mind i knew that this was the name for our baby. It just felt right.

Alayna Nicole { Alayna: Precious, torch, fiery one, a burning light} {Nicole: Victory or Victorious }

These are the pics i used to announce her name just some shots my husband took that turned out amazing!

26 weeks pregnant
baby girl is kicking around, i am eating EVERYTHING and my belly is itching( don't scratch).
I have been having the hardest time sleeping through the night and i have rearranged the house at least 100 times in the last week. Been daydreaming about what she will look like and imagining myself rocking my tiny little newborn. I cant wait, but i can wait. I just ordered some fresh new cloth diapers to add to our collection. We have more than enough hand me down, practically new clothes from my 3 year old ,that praise the Lord I couldn't ever get rid of and now i know why ;)

Love motherhood 

Natural Child Birth: Birthing affirmations

• My body was made to give birth
• I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me
• This is a natural process
• Everything is going according to God's plan
• I am at peace
• My body knows what its doing
• Every contraction is one step closer to getting to hold and see my baby
• Every contraction is expanding and opening up my body
• I am supported
• I am not on my own
• I trust my body and the Holy spirit that lives in me
• I surrender my birth over to my body. my baby and Jesus
• My body has a wide open space for my baby to descend
• I inhale peace and Exhale tension
• Birthing is easy and natural in which my body was designed
• I am a strong woman
• Birth is beautiful

I strongly believe in the power of the spoken word, i have see it in action. I believe there is the power of life and death in the tongue and that by our words we can speak things in to existence. So i choose to speak life in every area of my life by declaring  the word of God.  These affirmations are only a few of the positive words that i speak and pray over myself now, while I'm pregnant and i am counting on my spirit to remember and remind me of these things during labor. These are also some of the things i would like my husband to say to me while in labor to encourage me.