Bailey Gaddis is the author of Asking for a Pregnant Friend: 101 Answers to Questions Women Are Too Embarrassed to Ask about Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood and Feng Shui Mommy: Creating Balance and Harmony for Blissful Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood. She is also a certified HypnoMothering parenting coach, certified hypnotherapist specializing in children and parents, certified birthing doula, HypnoBirthing practitioner and parenting contributor for Working Mother, Fit Pregnancy, Pregnancy and Newborn, Babble, Elephant Journal, Cosmopolitan, Redbook, Woman's Day, Good Housekeeping, Scary Mommy, Natural Solutions, Natural Mother, Your Tango, American Baby, Green Child, Huffington Post, and more. Gaddis also supports families navigating cancer and parenthood at the cancer resource center Ojai Cares. In addition, Gaddis volunteers for the Parent Care Program at the Nan Tolbert Nurturing Center where she offers in-home support to parents of newborn babies. She often stays involved with these families, who have limited supplemental support, offering her transition into toddlerhood guidance pro bono. She lives in Ojai, California, with her husband, son, and daughter.