Teyana Taylor Speaks On Having Erykah Badu As Her Midwife; “Her Energy Is Just Everything”

Teyana Taylor recently opened up with ET about entrusting Erykah Badu with the delivery of her second child with husband NBA star Iman Shumpert. Badu, who recently worked with Taylor on the track “Lowkey” for Taylor’s latest project, “The Album,” which debuted last month.

“I think it was dope to let everybody know what the plan was because her energy is just everything. Because I’m so heavy on meditation, she’s been so supportive… So it’s just like, it’s amazing,” Taylor explained to ET’s Melicia Johnson via video chat of her decision to reach out to Badu for the intimate moment.

Taylor and Shumpert welcomed their first child, daughter Iman aka Junie, in December 2015, whom she delivered three weeks early on her bathroom floor. While Taylor is hoping for a much less stressful birth this time around with their second baby girl, she recognizes that every pregnancy can be quite different.

“I’m nervous, you know, like, Junie was unexpected, so it’s like, with the new baby, like, sometimes I feel like the birth of Junie didn’t hurt because I was [so] in shock. So now being prepared for it, I’m back to square one. Like, ‘Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God. A whole baby’s about to come out of my vagina.’ The thing that’s going through my head is like, ‘Oh, this is about to happen!'” She continued on by saying, “I’m learning now, every pregnancy is different. I’ve been sick in ways that I’ve never experienced with Junie, with the new baby. So I can’t assume that, you know, the next birth is gonna probably be as seamless, or as quick… I ain’t gonna front, I’m thinking in my head, there’s so much stuff running through my head, I don’t know what to do with myself.”

Taylor announced last month that she and her hubby were expecting by way of her music video for “Wake Up Love.” In the closing scene of the clip, Taylor lays in bed with 4-year-old Junie and Shumpert, before pulling down her blanket and lifting up her shirt, preciously revealing her baby bump for the first time.