This is a YouTube video titled "Mama Goddess Update" created in November 2012 featuring Alexandra Johnson sharing a personal update about her pregnancy, home birth experience, and early motherhood. She discusses her spiritual practices, interviews with parenting experts, and her journey with her newborn son Emerson, reflecting on the joys and challenges of this life phase.
Hey, everyone, it's Alexandra. So this is my first video as a mama goddess. Very, very excited about that. And it's been a long time since I've done a video, so I just wanted to say hello. I'm back. I'm gonna be doing more videos in the next couple months and just throughout 2013, but I just wanted to say hello. And I've missed doing videos, so I'm very excited about. About being back and doing them and getting my newsletter out again. The last video I did, I was, I don't know, maybe five months pregnant. And we had an amazing experience being pregnant. I loved being pregnant. I loved everything about being pregnant. It was such a joyful experience, and I felt healthier and stronger than I've ever felt. And it was miraculous and incredible. And I'm excited to share more about what I did during my pregnancy. And I think those were some of the key things that I did that really made it such a joyful and awesome experience. And then we did have a home birth, and it was extraordinary. We had an incredible midwife, Mary Jackson, who is just an angel. She is such the embodiment of love and presence. And I feel so grateful to have had her throughout my pregnancy and then to be there at the birth and to support me and to support us and to help us bring little Emerson into the world. It was my ideal birth, and it was incredible. And I'll be sharing more about that as well. And what else did I wanted to share? Oh, we have optimal parenting 101. So throughout my pregnancy, I interviewed 37 experts, from pediatricians to birth educators to midwives to doulas to just overall awesome peeps on optimal parenting. So how we can have an optimal pregnancy and optimal birth and be an optimal parent. And it's truly, it was such a great experience to interview all of these people and to learn and to prepare before we had our little baby. And I know that it helped me tremendously, tremendously just throughout navigating my pregnancy and navigating the birth and then navigating the first two months because Emerson is now eight weeks old. So navigating the first phases, the first phase of taking care of a newborn, which has been amazing and intense and awesome and one of the best spiritual practices you could ever do embark on. I will say that it is a moment to moment practice, and I feel super honored and grateful to be able to take care of this little miraculous being. It's so great when I wake up sometimes in the night because I sleep with him and he's I look at him and he's just like sleeping like this little Buddha. And he's just such a reminder to trust in the process of life and to trust in life unfolding and that he was inside of me. And now here he is, this incredible little baby. And watching him grow and watching his eyelashes grow and just knowing that we are always supported and that we're always protected and when we connect to that, that is growing him, that life force, that power, God, whatever you want to call it. Yeah, there's we, we are always. We are always protected and always safe. And when we can just really plug in to the highest expression of ourselves, then it is magical and powerful beyond anything we could ever imagine. So that is, that's my practice to staying plugged in and connecting to the God within me and staying empowered and positive and yeah, life is amazing. So that's it. That's it for my video today. I just wanted to say hi and sending you lots of love and looking forward to sharing more in 2013 on everything mama Goddess goodness and more goodness on how to rock your Godd until next time. I hope you have a beautiful day and.
