Is this meditation safe during pregnancy?

Yes. This is gentle guided practice with no breath-holding or physical exertion. Listen in any comfortable position. If a practice increases distress rather than easing it, stop and speak with your midwife, GP, or a mental health professional.

Do I need the app to listen?

No. Press play on this page for the full guided audio and transcript. The My Maternal Mind app adds offline caching, ambient sound mixing, and a daily meditation written for your current week.

Picturing the Days Ahead

Week 26

0:00−12:04

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Duration:: 12 min
Stage:: Pregnancy · Week 26
Best for:: An imaginative, hopeful moment

How to practise

In the second trimester, hopeful imagining of life together, held with warmth can show up quietly or all at once. This guided meditation makes room for the feeling without turning it into a lesson you are meant to pass.

Further along now, there can be space for a more hopeful kind of imagining: not just who this person might be, but what your days together might hold. This practice gives that hope somewhere to stretch out, while keeping it light enough that it stays a pleasure rather than a pressure.

Find a position that supports you (seated or lying down). Press play and let the guidance move at its own pace. There is no correct way to feel, and nothing to visualize on demand.

This episode is written for week 26. It fits best an imaginative, hopeful moment, though you can return whenever the week feels heavy or unfamiliar.

Each week in the series stands alone. Listeners often join at their current week and circle back later; the arc rewards continuity, but nothing here assumes you have been listening since week one.

Full transcript

Welcome to Week Twenty-Six.

Today we make a little room for hope. Not the careful, guarded kind, but the warmer kind that lets you picture the days ahead: ordinary mornings, small routines, a life slowly rearranging around someone new.

As always, we will hold it lightly. Imagining is here to be a pleasure, not a pressure. If it ever drifts toward worry, you can simply come back to your breath. Let's begin.

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Let's begin by letting your body settle.

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Find a position that supports you. Let the surface beneath you take your weight.

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Let your eyes close, or rest them softly open.

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Take one slow breath in.

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And let it go.

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Let's steady the breath together. In… one… … two… … three… … four…

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And out, longer. Out… one… … two… … three… … four… … five… … six…

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Again, in your own time.

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Let the counting go.

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Now, if it feels good, let your imagination warm to the days ahead. Nothing you have to picture clearly. Just a soft, hopeful wandering.

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You might picture an ordinary future moment. A quiet feed in the early light. A walk with a small weight against your chest. A sound of laughter you have not heard yet. Whatever comes, let it be gentle and warm. You do not have to get any of it right.

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You are allowed to look forward with hope. After so much waiting and carefulness, it is a kind of relief to let yourself simply want the good things, and to picture them, even just a little.

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And there is room for joy in the waiting. Hope does not jinx anything, and looking forward is not tempting fate. It is just love, leaning toward a future it cares about.

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If the imagining drifts toward worry, that is alright. Notice, let the picture go, and return to your breath, steady underneath it all. The hope will keep.

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Now, three quiet truths. Let each one land in the body.

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The first. I am allowed to look forward with hope.

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Notice where you feel that, if anywhere.

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The second. I can picture our days ahead and hold them gently.

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Let it settle.

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And the last. There is room for joy in the waiting.

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You do not have to be certain. Just let these be true.

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Stay a little longer, breathing, leaning gently toward the days to come.

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And when you are ready, begin to come back. Feel your weight. Feel your hands.

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Let your breath rejoin your day.

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Open your eyes slowly, if they were closed.

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And carry this hope gently with you.

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That is the end of this week's practice.

Looking forward is meant to feel good. If it tends to turn into worry for you, that is worth knowing, and it is completely okay to keep the imagining small or set it aside. If those worries run deep, your midwife or GP can help. You deserve support with the anxious parts too.

We will meet again next week.

FAQ

When should I listen to Week 26?: This practice is designed for an imaginative, hopeful moment, though you can return any time during pregnancy.
Is this meditation safe during pregnancy?: Yes. This is gentle guided practice with no breath-holding or physical exertion. Listen in any comfortable position. If a practice increases distress rather than easing it, stop and speak with your midwife, GP, or a mental health professional.
Do I need the app to listen?: No. Press play on this page for the full guided audio and transcript. The My Maternal Mind app adds offline caching, ambient sound mixing, and a daily meditation written for your current week.

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Last reviewed: 2026-06-30