Celebrity Home Births!

http://mamanatural.com/ Home birthing is on the rise with celebrities, as well as with the nation as a whole. Here are 10 celebrity mamas who gave birth at home. Some of them may surprise you!

Jennifer Connelly
Oscar-winner actress Jennifer Connelly recently had a home water birth in New York with her daugter Agnes Lark. Baby Anges joins big brothers Stellan and Kai.

Ricki Lake
Many of you out there may have actually SEEN Ricki Lake's homebirth of her second son, Owen. After all, it was chronicled up close and personal in her film, The Business of Being Born. Salon.com described the film as "the opposite of a celebrity vanity project." I gotta give it up for Ricki - her film was brave and hugely inspirational.

Pamela Anderson
Pamela Anderson delivered both of her baby boys at home in water with the help of two midwives and her then husband Tommy Lee.

Erykah Badu
Singer Erykah Badu has given birth to all three of her children at home.

BTW, Erykah's kids names are almost as diverse as her musical styles: Seven Sirius, Puma Sabit, and Mars Merkaba.

About her home birthing experience Erykah said, "Maybe to some it's scary, but preparation is the whole key. When a mother has found out she's going to have a baby, her whole life — her diet, her mood, her energy — should kind of prepare her. After she prepares herself, fear is never a part of it. I expected success and health, so I made sure I surrounded myself with it. By the time I had my third baby, childbirth seemed a very natural part of life to me."

Alyson Hannigan
How I Met Your Mother star Alyson Hannigan had a drug free home birth for her first child, Satyana. About the birth she said, "Yes. I did use a midwife and a doula. We had the option of having a doctor there, but even he said you'll only need me if you need to be transferred to the hospital--which thankfully, I did not need."

Maya Rudolph
SNL star Maya Rudolph had a homebirth with her second child - although neither she or baby Lucille expected it in the least! In an interview on the Chelsea Lately show, Maya described the experience as "scary but kind of awesome." She said that Lucille came out really fast and, quote, "kind of gently glided into her father's arms."

Maria Bello
"I can't imagine giving birth in a sterile environment like a hospital," said actress Maria Bello. So she labored with her son Jackson Blue in her bed. After almost 24 hours of labor in the midst of a raging thunderstorm, she said she'd do the same thing next time.

Maria said, "Believe me, there were times where I wanted to say, "Get the ambulance — I'm done." But then I thought, "I can do anything for 24 hours" and it was almost exactly 24 hours."

Demi Moore
Demi Moore gained notoriety not just for her acting chops, but also this risque Vanity Fair cover. But what was lost in all the hoopla about that cover was the face that Demi had all three of her children at home! You go, girl.

Meryl Streep
Is there an Academy Award for best home birth? Because if there is, I'm sure Meryl Streep would have won it. In 1978, she married sculptor Don Gummer and they are parents to four children: Henry, Mamie (Mary), Grace, and Louisa, one or more of whom were born at home.

Cindy Crawford
Supermodel Cindy Crawford had both of her children - son Presley, now 11, and daughter Kaia, now 9 - at home with her husband Rande Gerber and three midwives on hand. She spoke of the home birth experience:

I didn't tell anyone last time because a lot of people are against home birth and tell you horror stories. Even my husband said at first, 'Why are we doing this?'" But she went on to say her home birth was 'absolutely surreal.'"

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[guitargirlae]

I'm 39 weeks on Friday and planning a homebirth! I'm so ready for this little baby to get here. :)

[MamaNaturalBlog]

@guitargirlae Good luck and best wishes! Send me an email afterward and tell me how it goes and I'll feature you on my show. Go, mama, go!

[MsLoveyyy]

i am 35 weeks pregnant now and planning to have home birth. although this is my 4th pregnancy, this is my first time to try giving birth at home.i find your videos very helpful....thanks a lot!!!!

[MamaNaturalBlog]

@MsLoveyyy YAY! You go girl! Let me know how it goes!!!!! Would love to feature you in one of our Sunday celebration shows. XO.

[TheAubre]

I've had 3 home births. I wouldn't want to do it any other way. would maybe consider a birth center if we could afford it.

[MamaNaturalBlog]

@TheAubre Nice job, mama!

[hcmontessori]

This will be my 2nd homebirth! The midwives are so prepared - they do all check-ups & blood-draws you'd get from a Dr., schedule ultrasounds, even send you to specialists if needed. For birth, they bring everything you'd need - pitocin, oxygen for mom & baby, antibiotics... everything you could need @ a birth, yet you're tucked into your own bed @ the end of the day. The 1st baby, I was scared. With this one, I'm SO excited! Now that the fear has been removed, all that's left is excitement! ^_^

[MsMissyPixie]

@motherinvention This is so inspirational. Truly amazing. :)

[COULDNTthinkNAMEOFa]

@motherinvention wow! way to go:) that goes to show home vbac IS possible.

[SuperClassy31]

I had all 4 of my babies at home, and between my sisters n I there have been 16 babies born at home in my family, no complications! Babies 17 & 18 are on the way now, and are planned home births, I am starting an apprenticeship with our midwife to pursue a midwifery career myself!! LOVE home birth!!!

[jorgiegirl]

@Adawg4008 because men don't give birth. women do. 

[motherinvention]

My first 3 births were in a hospital, the 3rd was a c-section. My last 7 children (yes that's 10 children all together) were born at home. My 4 youngest children were unassisted home-births. Unlike my hospital births, all of my home-births were wonderful experiences and all a little different from each other.