Ep 40: Meet Birth & Postpartum Doula, Kris Bailey
Preparing For Pregnancy After Loss
Release Date: 05/17/2022
Ep 57: Four-Year Follow-Up with Donette Subron (Pregnancies, Losses, Motherhood & The Stories In-Between)
Preparing For Pregnancy After Loss
Donette first joined us for an interview in 2020 (). Today, she’s sharing how her journey has unfolded over the past four years. This includes three pregnancies (including being pregnant with twins) and curveball after curveball with unexpected losses, medical support, invasive procedures, the birth of a preemie, and life in the NICU. I marvel at what it sometimes takes to bring these precious little ones into the world. 💖 It was inspiring to hear the layers of support Donette called on during her journey, how the last few years have shaped her, and ways that she...
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Ep 56: The Stories These Scars Hold
Preparing For Pregnancy After Loss
We're taught to erase our scars, that they get in the way of our beauty and perfection. What's been coming up for me that led to this episode is the wisdom that scars are the physical manifestation of the lives we've lived. They are a part of the stories our bodies hold. They can be evidence of both our pain and growth. I wonder if as souls we ever held the intention to not go through pain. Or was the intention to have the storied life we're now experiencing that has the potential to lead to deep levels of growth? What are the stories we get to tell? What are the stories that our scars...
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Ep 55: We're Here to Birth Many Things!
Preparing For Pregnancy After Loss
Our bodies are portals for creation. We have the ability to birth many, many expressions of life. But when our mainstream culture tells us that our worthiness is tied into birthing children, it creates a disconnection within ourselves if we accept that lie. Today’s episode is an Instagram Live recording where I speak to: Staying in connection with ourselves and our sense of worthiness regardless of where we are on the pregnancy journey Birthing occurring on an energetic / spiritual level When it becomes problematic to make a business or project “your baby”...
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Ep 54: The Podcast Is Changing
Preparing For Pregnancy After Loss
The podcast is changing, beloved. In beautiful ways though. I've been feeling called to expandind into other topics that speak to the whole of us...or the very least, more of us. These topics include our connection to ourselves, our connection to the earth, the healing of our families and intimate relationships, the systems in our society that lead to pain and stress in our lives, and more. Some form of evolution is always happening. And as it's happening within me, I'm wanting the work or inspiration I offer to reflect that expansion as well. I'm grateful to you for being on this...
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Ep 53: You Don't Have to Smile
Preparing For Pregnancy After Loss
You don't have to smile. You don't. I've been sitting with what it would be like to have a world where we can each show up with all the emotions that are present with us—showing up with the grief, the regret, the fear, the frustration—without feeling the need to "fix" yourself or those emotions before being in the room again. This episode explores the cultural patterns that train us into smiling for the camera even when we don't feel like it and dreams up a new way of being with the emotions that are authentic in each moment. If you enjoy today's episode, please...
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Ep 52: How Somatic Therapy Can Support Your Healing
Preparing For Pregnancy After Loss
In today's episode, I get to share more about one of my favorite healing practices with you: Somatic Therapy (also known as Embodiment Healing). I walk through... What Somatic Therapy is My introduction to Somatic Therapy and the impact it's had on me The difference between Talk Therapy & Somatic Therapy What happens in a Somatic Therapy session Wisdom held in our DNA and wisdom from Higher Power that can be accessed through the body If you enjoy today's episode, please share the love with someone who might find it useful as well. ----- More About Me: I am a...
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Ep 51: No Version of Motherhood is Perfect
Preparing For Pregnancy After Loss
Today’s episode is about permission and grace. If you’re a mom/parent to angel babies, I encourage you to really give yourself the permission to do whatever supports your energy around this time. I also share how I respond when I’m asked if I’m a mother. And if you’re currently parenting or caretaking kiddos who are physically here, I shed light on the lie that we need to strive to be perfect mothers or parents. Perfection doesn’t exist. It doesn’t. Being able to surrender to the messiness, the madness, the beauty, the creativity, the unpredictability…of life and...
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Ep 50: Being Gentle With Yourself
Preparing For Pregnancy After Loss
Today’s episode is a prayer, an invitation to soften, to be gentle with yourself. There’s sometimes the belief–even if unconscious–that softening might transform someone into becoming weak or diminish their ability to be resilient. I’ve observed and experienced the opposite: that it’s ignoring the body’s invitation to soften that eventually leads to shut down and disconnection. The softening, the exhale…creates the opening. I invite you to receive today’s invitation if it resonates. ----- More About Me: I’m a Resilience Coach, Embodiment Healing Guide,...
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Ep 49: The Imperfect Healing Journey
Preparing For Pregnancy After Loss
I used to think that my healing journey needed to look a certain way and have a definite outcome. That eventually--no matter how long it took--I needed to rise out of the ashes like a phoenix then tell the world about it. Sitting with the realness of my unpredictable, and sometimes messy healing journey has taught me that there is no model for what healing should look like. You are an original. Your journey will be a unique one. And by releasing the expectations around who you ought to become and by when that needs to happen, perhaps that creates room for some unexpected, imperfect...
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Ep 48: Suffering In Silence
Preparing For Pregnancy After Loss
Feeling as though you're suffering in silence is perhaps one of the most common experiences after going through a loss. Silence and solitude might be exactly what you need in the earlier stages of your healing journey. And at some point, the silence or isolation may no longer support your healing. In this episode, I share: When silence and solitude are in service of our healing and When silence and solitude can lead to our decline Some simple tips for bringing "movement" and release to your body and being\ And here are the Grief playlists I referenced: ----- More...
info_outlineToday’s episode features one of my favorite Birth & Postpartum Doulas, Kris Bailey. Knowing that you can add a Birth and Postpartum Doula to your birthing team helps to take the “scary” out of childbirth. And so, I’m thrilled to have Kris share more about how doulas can improve your birthing experience.
Kris is also the founder of Birth Sent Lisi, an organization whose mission is to inform, educate and support birthing people on the island of Saint Lucia by providing access to maternal health services during pregnancy, labor, and postpartum period.
Kris and I discuss:
- Her journey to becoming a Birthworker
- Why a Birth and/or Postpartum Doula is an important part of your birthing team
- Having awareness of the “strong, independent woman” archetype and asking for support
- The difficult experiences of Black and Brown birthing people
- The wonderful work she’s cultivating in her home country of St. Lucia and how you can play a part in its success
Links & Resources:
- Kris’ Website: https://birthandbabyservices.com
- Birth Sent Lisi on IG: https://www.instagram.com/birthsentlisi
- Donate to Birth Sent Lisi buying a birth positive T-shirt: https://birthandbabyservices.com/community-initiatives-1
- Donate to Birth Sent Lisi’s fundraiser: https://givebutter.com/BIRTHSENTLISI
- Ancient Song Doula Training: https://www.ancientsongdoulaservices.com/
Kris’s Bio:
Kris Bailey is a perinatal professional based in NYC with 8 years of experience in the birth and postpartum wellness industry. She offers a well rounded doula experience: Birth doula, postpartum doula, attachment parent coach, childbirth educator. She’s also a Certified lactation counselor and fertility advocate in training.
Kris’ role as a birth doula is to provide emotional and physical support to a birthing individual during their labor and delivery and reassurance and perspective to partners. Her goal during your pregnancy is to provide you with enough information and tools to feel confident on the onset of labor.
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2. Work 1:1 with me for your emotional healing or to gently guide you through a conception to childbirth plan for your next pregnancy. Pregnancy after loss or infertility is tough, and you do not have to feel overwhelmed or alone. You’ve been through enough, warrior! And you are so much stronger with the right support! Book a complimentary strategy call with me to help you get clarity for the next phase of your journey: https://calendly.com/nataleefacey/20min
3. Learn More About “Rebirth,” my group course kicking off again later this year. This will support you in diving even deeper into your healing and giving birth to a more powerful you. Learn more about Rebirth Here: https://www.nataleefacey.com/rebirth. And let’s chat to see if the program is a good fit for you: https://calendly.com/nataleefacey/rebirth-discovery
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