Pregnancy And Motherhood Prayers

I'm not pretty well today since I have a mild dry cough but nevertheless I'm grateful to God since this day marks my 37th week. I can give birth anytime and Baby will be considered full term already! Now, my prayer will be for a safe delivery!

The following prayer is the Pregnancy Prayer I've been using since my first baby. I got the lines from A Prayer to St. Gerard For Safe Delivery, Prayer For A Safe Pregnancy and another prayer which I've lost track. (I do hope someone will remind me someday.)

My Lord and My God, Giver of life, I praise and thank You for the child in my womb. You have willed it to happen that I bear this child and so mercifully grant your help and protection until You have finished the work You have begun.

This life you have given us is so tiny, fragile, and vulnerable,
safe in the womb of flesh and hope, yet subject to danger and death.
O God of love, creator of life, hear our prayer.
We want this baby so much.
Please grant this child of ours a full term of nurture,
the joy and mystery of life, and the blessing of your love.

With humility and trust, I am manifesting all my needs to You.
Preserve me from danger and from the excessive pains accompanying childbirth, and shield the child which I now carry, that she may see the light of day and receive the purifying and life-giving waters of baptism through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Grant us the fulfillment of our dreams,
a baby to cherish and protect,
a child to teach and guide,
a blessing to our family.
Amen.

Then I encountered these prayers today:

Prayer to Our Lady of La Leche for Motherhood

Lovely Lady of La Leche, most loving mother of the Child Jesus, and my mother, listen to my humble prayer. Your motherly heart knows my every wish, my every need. To you only, His spotless Virgin Mother, has your Divine Son given to understand the sentiments which fill my soul. Yours was the sacred privilege of being the Mother of the Savior. Intercede with him now, my loving Mother, that, in accordance with His will, I may become the mother of other children of our heavenly Father. This I ask, O Lady of La Leche, in the Name of your Divine Son, My Lord and Redeemer. Amen.

Prayer to Our Lady of La Leche during Pregnancy

O Lord Jesus Christ, through the intercession of Your tender Mother, Our Lady of La Leche, who bore You close to her heart during those long months before Your birth, I place my baby and myself entirely in Your Hands. Free me, I beseech You, from useless and consuming worry. Accept the sacrifice of my aches and pains, which I unite to Your sufferings on the Cross. Above all, most merciful and loving Jesus, protect this child You have given to me from all harm, bestowing the health and vigor every baby needs. Implant in my heart and on my lips the words and prayers of Your Mother and mine, our Lovely Lady of La Leche. All this I ask that my child and I may live to praise forever Your Holy Name. Amen.

Sources:
- Mission and Shrine website.
- Baby and Bump website.
* image from Mission and Shrine website.