The Path to an Empowered Birth Experience - Bailey Gaddis

12/31/2020

The Path to an Empowered Birth Experience
Bailey Gaddis

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We are a 501 3c Non-Profit. Our aim is to prevent and heal birth trauma through education. Women need to understand their options and rights in childbirth so that they can have a safe and healthy birth.

Today, we talk with Bailey Gaddis, author of Feng Shui Mommy: Creating Balance and Harmony for Blissful Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood (https://www.baileygaddis.com/book) and Asking For a Pregnant Friend: 101 Answers to Questions Women Are Too Ashamed or Scared to Ask About Pregnancy, Childbirth and Early Motherhood (coming June 1, 2021.) She is also a Certified Hypnotherapist, Certified Birthing doula, HypnoBirthing® Practitioner, and HypnoMothering® Practitioner.

She shares her personal journey in birth work and childbirth education. She then explains some of the concepts in her book, including what she means by a “Feng shui approach” to birth, as well as breaking down her “four trimester” perspective on pregnancy and birth. We talk about trusting intuition and the benefits of simplifying your life and living space.

We then discuss the different practices, philosophies, and techniques involved in HypnoBirthing®, and talk about their benefits. We talk more about the applications of hypnosis and subconscious thought in daily life. We then discuss how to approach and maintain Feng shui in family life, especially when there are small kids in the home.

We finish by talking about the importance of working to craft your own birth philosophy that’s best for you and your needs.

To learn more, visit https://www.baileygaddis.com.

• 4:20 What is the “Feng Shui Approach” to Pregnancy and Birth?
• 23:58 The Case For Feng shui
• 26:46 HypnoBirthing and the Subconscious
• 36:47 Feng shui with Little Kids
• 42:21 You Are the Expert

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The practice of Feng Shui involves arranging a space to maximize energy flow and bring a space into harmony. Usually we think of this as associated with home organization, but it can be applied far more broadly than that. In pregnancy, birth, and motherhood, a Feng Shui approach can help a new mother to simplify her life, reduce fear, and learn to follow the flow of her intuition as she navigates each new phase of early motherhood.

Sarah and Bailey discuss the meaning of Feng Shui and how it can be applied in every area of a new mother's life to help alleviate stress. They also dig into Hypnobirthing and its benefits, as well as how hypnosis can be applied in far more aspects of life than just during the birth process.

Bailey Gaddis is the author of Feng Shui Mommy: Creating Balance and Harmony for Blissful Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood and Asking For a Pregnant Friend: 101 Answers to Questions Women Are Too Ashamed or Scared to Ask About Pregnancy, Childbirth and Early Motherhood (coming June 1, 2021.) She is also a Certified Hypnotherapist, Certified Birthing Doula, HypnoBirthing® Practitioner, HypnoMothering® Practitioner, and a founding member of the Ojai Valley Birth Collective.

This episode was sponsored by:

Please donate HERE

We are a 501 3c Non-Profit. Our aim is to prevent and heal birth trauma through education. Women need to understand their options and rights in childbirth so that they can have a safe and healthy birth.