Prayer of a Woman Before Childbirth to the Most Holy Mother of God

O Most Holy Mother of God! Have mercy upon me, a poor servant of God and Your daughter, and with heavenly mercy and goodness come to my aid in the hour of my labors and dangers, with which almost all poor women of Israel give birth to children. Remember, O Blessed among women, with whom in joy and love you hurried to the hill country to visit Your relative Elizabeth, when she was expecting a child, and how wonderfully Your gracious visitation was manifested to the mother and the child.

From the ineffable mercy of the Lord, grant also to me, an imperfect and unworthy servant of God and Your daughter, a happy delivery of a child. Grant me this grace from the Lord, that the child now within my womb, when it comes to the world, with joy, like the holy infant John, may truly worship and serve the Lord Savior, Who out of love for us sinners did not despise us and Himself became an earthly Child. And may that indescribable joy which filled Your immaculate heart at the sight of Your newly born Son and Lord ease the sorrow that awaits me in the labor of birth.

Life of the world, my Savior, born of You, may He save me from death at the time of birth and may He join the fruit of my womb to the number of God's elect. Hear, O Most Holy Queen of Heaven, my humble supplication and look upon me, a poor sinner, with the eye of Your Grace; do not reject the great mercy of Your Son God and bless me in the Lord. Helper of Christians, Divine Healer of the weak, cover me with Your maternal protection during my tribulations, that I may also experience that You are the Mother of Mercy, and that I may ever glorify Your, and thereby the Lord's, Grace, which never rejects the prayers of the poor and the weak, but helps all who, through You, turn to the all‑good and ever‑good Creator in sorrow and patience. Amen.

Source: kyrios.org.ua