Traditional Catholic Novena
Our Lady of La Leche Novena
Prayed for conceiving a child, safe pregnancy, healthy childbirth, nursing, and help in motherhood.
Our Lady of La Leche is traditionally invoked as patron of mothers, pregnancy, childbirth, infertility, nursing mothers.

The Immaculate Conception, Guido Reni (1627)
Pray This Novena
Start with day 1
Begin the novena now, move one day at a time, and come back here whenever you are ready for the next day.
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Day 1 of 9
The same principal prayer is used each day. Choose the day you are on, pray the main prayer below, and mark the day complete when you finish.
Private intention
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Day 1
Pray the principal prayer below for this day of the novena.
Principal Prayer for Each Day
Pray this same prayer each day after the day's meditation.
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Prayer for Conceiving a Child
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 for Safe and Healthy Childbirth
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 I ask is that my child and I may live to praise forever Your Holy Name.
Amen.
Cherished Virgin, Heaven’s Queen, chosen before all women to be the Mother of the Son of God, Mary, my mother, who in your maternity so sanctified the state of holy motherhood, imploringly I come to you, humbly I beseech you, confidently I trust in you.
I know that, by your powerful intercession, you can help me in my need.
In you I take refuge, dear Virgin.
Poor and needy, I turn devoutly to you and place all confidently in your hands.
Pause here for the grace you are asking.
Amen.
For A Mother
To You, lovely Lady of La Leche, and to your Divine Son, do I now dedicate this little baby whom our Father in heaven has given me.
Pause here for your need.
Inspire me with the motherly sentiments you felt during your days with the Child Jesus.
Make it possible for me, in imitation of you, O Lady of La Leche, to nurse my child to perfect health.
In all things help me to follow the example which you, as the perfect model of all mothers, have given to me.
Let my family mirror the virtues of your Holy Family of Nazareth.
Finally, I commend to your loving care all mothers, in whose hands He has entrusted the souls of His little children.
Amen.
Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. Hail Mary Glory Be
Our Lady of La Leche, pray for us!
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
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