Miranda Kerr gave birth to a bouncing baby boy on Friday in Los Angeles. Most sources have Orlando Bloom, Kerr’s husband, by her side at the hospital. Many things are still known: we still don’t know the kid’s name, so let’s refer to him as Mirlando Kerr-Bloom. We also don’t know if Mirlando was born vaginally or via C-section, but I know one thing right now: I hope to God Miranda had a C-section. According to the Australian media (who are getting statements from Miranda’s family), the baby weighed nearly 10 pounds! Gigantor baby.
Get ready to meet the latest contender for cutest baby in Hollywood…and possibly the biggest. Miranda Kerr and Orlando Bloom have welcomed a baby boy—and, according to her family, the kid is a monster, tipping the scales at nearly 10 pounds.
Here are the latest details…
Per Kerr’s local newspaper, Sydney’s Daily Telegraph, the super-sized bundle of joy arrived last Friday, and despite his size, the petite Kerr (as well as her Lord of the Rings hubby) are doing “very well,” according to a family friend.
The tyke, whose name has not been released, is the first for Kerr, 27, and Bloom, 33.
Already, the folks in Kerr’s native Australia are abuzz, including the mayor of her hometown of Gunnedah.“Everyone is really excited. She still has strong family links here and we are very proud of her,” said Mayor Adam Marshall. “We would like to see Miranda, Orlando and the new bub in Gunnedah.”
Marshall says the town is working on a baby (bubby?) present, with contenders including “Koala Capital of the World” T-shirt. Just make sure to send an XL.
[From E! News]
My God, I fear childbirth. I really, really have a soul-crushing fear of something that big coming out of me. I’m squeamish, to put it mildly. Let’s hope Orly buys Miranda something really special as her “push present”.
Speaking of Orly making that money, word is that Orlando is reprising his Lord of the Rings role as Legolas in The Hobbit. It will be a cameo appearance, allegedly less than 120 seconds of film. Guess how much Orly gets for two minutes? $1 million. No joke.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
I’m still trying to figure out if she’s pretty or oft-looking. Orlando sure is though. Congrats!
Wow! Yeah, after I got preggers I was just crying for days. My boyfriend was like, “Babe, we will be okay – it is fine.” Only I wasn’t crying over timing or money I was crying because all I could think was that one way or another this fully grown BABY was going to exit my body!
She is oft-looking, but somehow it works for her!
Finally, that is a lot of money for a split second of work, but as it is the role I LOVE him in and (in my opinion) the hottest he has ever looked – well worth it!
LOL It’s not that bad (and I’ve had two boys with no drugs). Although, don’t all celeb’s have c-sections now? No worries for her.
OH! And I LOVE Mirlando 🙂
I’ve been there. The last month was pure hell — all that weight on my internal organs was brutal, to say the least — but since both my kids were huge, I don’t know if their births were anymore difficult than those involving smaller babies.
I like Kerr-Bloom. Sounds like a cleaning product.
I’m in denial that there’s going to be any pushing involved. I’ll just somehow have a pretty baby with no effort involved.
*Glances at tummy* Yeah, that’s going to happen.
Her face might look better if her eyebrows weren’t so full.
But, congrats. Where the hell did the 10 lbs come from? Orly and Miranda are pretty thin. Hm…well, they look like they’d make pretty good parents.
He looks like he has really smelly breath.
I pushed out my 9 lb 2 oz son, so it can be done. It did take 2 hours though. Congrats to them both and I think she’s gorgeous.
10 pounds? Sounds more like Gimli’s child than Legolas’
10lbs – ouch!!!
C-sect all the way!
Edit – Congrats to the couple too! Agreed, she is gorgeous, love her wide set eyes, so wish I had been blessed with wide set eyes
Edit again! I had an elective c-sect and wouldn’t have changed it for the world, so its not just celebs that go for the c-sect way
Yeeouch…..that’s a bloomin big baby!
It is hard to imagine any sort of pushing or surgery on this chick, she almost looks ethereal. I looked up crowning after Kaisers post on this couple when she was delivering.
My daughter was 8 1/2 pounds and short so she was a little rough getting out, but that was nothing compaired to the teenage years!
@Prettytarheel LOL- Who’d chose Scrubbing Bubbles over Kerr-Bloom?
@Jez-I just added you to the list of women I will not antagonize. (I hoped they served lunch on the flight).
Oh yeah, she looks charming and yes, they look nice together. Congrats!!!!
2 elecetive C-sections here, and I would not change a thing. The whole thought of a baby coming out of me the other way scared the ever living crap out of me.
Congrats to them, they make a pretty couple, and I am sure there baby is beautiful!
My goodness, what a BIG BABY! Shows she was being healthy through the pregnacy (Rachel Zoe take notes) and putting the baby first!
(Not meant to imply all small babies mothers are not putting their babe first, just a big fat congratulations to Miranda and Orlando.)
i dont get it-how are eyebrows supposed to look?
i mean,i dont think hers look bushy or big….huh.
i get that the drawn in sharpie look is not a good one-lol….and the unibrow, too…
but otherwise, they come in all shapes and sizes…
oh kaiser, you crack me up. Mirlando is an awesome name
Oh my. I had a 5 lb baby vaginally and it SUCKED. I can’t imagine if my son was Twice that size. And I’m much hippier than she is. She may be my hero.
I was 11.6 pound at birth (5.3 kilo) and a girl! 🙂
My mom is very tall (6 ft) and my dad as well (6’3) and so I was a big and sturdy baby. I was so big they had to perform a C section on my mom as I just wouldn’t fit through naturally.
But everything is fine. I was just a big baby, and I’m tall now (6’1). She is tall too so having a big and heavy baby makes sense to me.
One of my co-workers delivered an 11 lb 9 oz baby by vaginal birth. And she wears a size 4.
@Rita you become a strong lady when you have to push out a huge child.
Gave birth to an 8 lb 1 oz son, not fun but you get through it.
my youngest sister was 10 lb when she was born and mum pushed her out, WITHOUT an epidural so it can be done!
ironically she is the smallest of me and my sisters now.
I think she is adorable. There is something about her eyes that I really like. Very cute.
My hubby was a 10 pounder! He comes from a long line of big Irish men. Our son was 8 pounds, but I am very petite (aka short). The actual delivery wasn’t bad at all! The last month carrying around a little bowling ball wasn’t so fun, but he was worth it!!
The weight is secondary, it’s the head size that matters most. I had a big headed boy without epidural and really, it wasn’t bad. Not a walk in the park, but hormones really are a great thing. I either didn’t suffer much or else I forgot immediately 😉
My older brother was 11 lbs 3 oz, I was 9 lbs 3 oz(and I was early!) – my mom had two c-sections, but that wasn’t her plan! She was going natural all the way, until her final exam when the doc told her he would be about 10 pounds, then she started screaming for drugs haha
Can only comment on what I’ve been told – that c-sections SOUND easier for the mom, but that it actually hurts a lot more afterward when the cut is healing, and takes longer to recover fully. But, it’s all the woman’s choice. Either way, I salute you gals.
(Sometimes babies can be extra large if the mom had gestational diabetes. I’m not a doc, but again, that’s what’s I’ve been told. So hope baby and mom are doing fine).
sometimes small hipped, tall girls have the easiest time pushing out the babies. I know a girl that is about the same size as Miranda and she was a baby making machine.. no problems at all.. must be the tall torso that helps. Can’t wait to see this baby..
I’m really hoping that Bean is 6-8 lbs, anything bigger scares me a little since we are going the no drug water birth route!! C-sections are surgery & surgery scares me more than popping out my baby. Women have been doing it for millions of years so nature must be getting something right! Not, of course, that I wouldn’t have one if it was medically necessary. I firmly believe that it is up to the mother & the medical staff she is working with. The end result is all that matters: a happy healthy baby 🙂
Congrats to the family!! Its it bad that I really want his name to be Mirlando? LOL!
c section isn’t necessarily the easy option, it’s major bloody surgery
I’ve read that often larger babies are easier births because they’re more ready and sort of fight their way out (so to speak)
My first was average weight but had a head in the 95th percentile! That was difficult. Very, very, very difficult.
My second was slightly larger but thanks to my epidural I didn’t feel a thing :^)
Meh, no need for a c-section. I had two babies vaginally without drugs, with the largest being 8.5lbs. But I have friends who have given birth to 9.5lb and slightly over 10lb babies, also naturally and with no problems. The only important part is the circumferance of the head and the width of the shoulders. The chub just squishes, no big deal. 😉
They are both just too adorable. I can’t wait to see photos of the baby and hear his name!
I’ve never really understood the fear of vaginal birth that some women have. It seemed totally natural though I did cringe at the thought of the pain of the contractions.
Now my daughter on the other hand absolutely would not even THINK of pushing out a baby. And guess what? She didn’t dialate during labor and had to have a C-section. Never think the mind does not control the body.
Me? I wouldn’t want that scar on my body. And the belly NEVER goes completely flat after a C-section. The scar pulls in and the belly has a little pooch over the scar that no amount of exercise gets rid of. No thanks. I bet all those women in Hollywood getting elective C’s don’t talk about THAT.
Don’t be scared! I’m a tiny, hipless person and I pushed out two kids with no drugs. The second was 9 pounds.
I’d do it again!
You’ll be ok. 🙂
Yeah Autumnstars, it’s the head and shoulders. Mostly the head. Ohhh, the bowling ball of a head.
Yay! I’m so glad to hear there are lots of women out there who had (or were) big babies. When I tell people both my babies were over 9lbs (and my mum had 6 kids ranging from 8 1/2-11lbs) and I had them both without any drugs they look at me like I’m crazy! I had my second baby 1 month ago today and she was 9lbs, 3ozs, 21in long and shot out in less than 10min. I’ve got the stitches (down ‘there’) to prove it. LoL
I totally get the childbirth fear, tho. My major fears were: “I hope I don’t poop while I’m pushing” (sorry, gross but common) and “I hope both my husband and I can remember that my vagina can be used for pleasure again after pushing a baby out of it”.
I think I prefer big babies–they don’t seem as fragile, and I wasn’t so afraid of holding them or breaking them, if that makes sense. Unfortunately, they don’t stay in the adorable newborn clothes very long. My Peanut has grown out of most of her 3-month wardrobe already.
To C or not to C, that is the question…
Whether it is nobler to mind the episeotomy and ‘roids,
or suffer the incision.
I do know in a lot of L&D departments it’s an automatic C at that size.
edit: Gorgeous parents-I hope their child favors both!
Baby is going to be beautiful. Love Mirlando, it’s perfect.
Wow, they looked like they’d have a small or average baby. At least he’s healthy, good thing and congrats to them. 🙂 My kids were small 5 and 6 lbs and that HURT, so I can only imagine a bigger baby. My husband is a big guy and his family comes from having big babies, so I was going bonkers thinking I’d have big babies, but they must have got most of my genes. 🙂 And you think that’s crazy about a 10 pound baby. I’ve heard stories where if the women has health issues as in (diabetes), she is at risk at having huge babies up to 24 lbs…bloody hell. :/
Weight is nothing, I was born a month early so I was pretty small and still wound up causing serious damage to my mum (sorry mum!) on account of my big head!
Enough of that, congrats to them and their new elf baby! Just don’t give him a weird name, like Yellow Pages or Aladdin
EDIT: Just incase you are picturing me as Megamind, my mum had small hips too which was part of the problem
it’s really not so much the weight of the baby but the size of the head.. my son’s head was in the 95% percentile.. 2 hrs of pushing and a vacuum did it in the end. And I still had a huge tear and a couple of vertebraes in the lumbar portion displaced (agonizing pain and months of physical therapy). Sometimes it’s just better to have a c-section.
holy BIG babies, batman.
My son was 7lbs 11ozs.. big enough for me..
I went the c section twice, unending labors where my cervix would not unwind so for the common good i was taken to for the c section. I am a very large girl and the scar is huge but i wear it like a badge of honor. Congratulations to the new parents 🙂
Congratulations to the new parents! 10lbs is big for a newborn, but I knew girl who delivered a 13lb baby – naturally! So it is possible.
Regardless of how the little guy arrived in the world, I’m glad that mom and baby are healthy and wish the new family all the best!
I have no idea who she is but she looks like she is pretty impressed with herself wearing a shirt like that. Any-hoo congrats to them on a healthy baby.
My daughter was 9 pounds, 6 ounces, and I lived through it. Of course, a lot of this had to do with my doctor’s prediction that she’d be 6 or 7 pounds at birth, otherwise I might have freaked out about it beforehand. In addition, I truly expected the entire childbirth experience to be completely hellish and the worst thing ever, so the pain that I actually felt (while very uncomfortable) was rather underwhelming. With that said, if I ever have another kid, that particular pregnancy will probably kick my ass.
Bodhi, best of wishes for that water birth. A number of my friends have had water births/home births/no intervention births, and while they weren’t a walk in the park, they were absolutely wonderful experiences.
My little guy was 9 pounds, 6 ounces. I couldn’t feel that one because I had a serious epidural. My daughter was smaller, (7’4) and the epidural had worn off by the time I pushed, and I tell you, the pushing was nothing compared to transition.
@minx2: You’ve got a point about the head size. Both my kids had big noggins (90th+ percentile) and with my daughter especially I felt it. As she was coming out it was like, “Okay, there’s the head, now there’s a shoulder, then the other shoulder…” It was pretty damn painful I must admit!
But I’ve heard that C-sections are a much longer recovery and more painful in the long run. So I guess it’s damned if you do and damned if you don’t…
Mirlando!!!!!
As the only commenter here who hasn’t had babies try to climb out of her vagina, I’d like to say that you all have absolutely terrified me.
It must’ve been a c-section. Isn’t that the way celebs do it these days, if not by surrogate?
Pregnacy suited her. She absolutely glowed and the extra weight looked great on her.
Congrats to the new parents!
To mention, I’ve heard that most doctors / surgeon’s etc have c-sects and the main reason they are not offered to all is beacuse of cost and the amount of people needed.
Agreed the healing after is bl*oody painful, but I’m not convinced the operation is as major as its made out to be – don’t get me wrong it is a serious operation, but the amount of emergency c-sects that have to be done when natural fails (and most natural’s I know of have needed intervention)
However, it is really refreshing to read on here that nearly everyone isn’t judgemental if you choose a c-sect (I found people looked at me like I was crazy and just plain evil not to experience natural)
So all the best to those expecting, natural vag or c-sect – the most important thing is the healthy baby at the end, regardless of the way it was born
sharylmj: sometimes small hipped, tall girls have the easiest time pushing out the babies.
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You could be right. I had my son the old-fashioned way and I was wearing a size 5.
I have no idea what healing after a c-section feels like, but healing after an episiotomy felt like sitting on a cactus.
@Mshuffleupagus: Don’t let the stories on here scare you. My mom and my friends all told me horrible stories about being in agony for hours and hours and hours. My son popped out after 90 minutes of labor. He almost arrived before the doctor did.
All three of my boys were over 10lbs, 1st was 10 pounds 2 ounces, my 2nd son was 10 pounds, 6 ounces those two were vag deliveries,no drugs. My 3rd was 10 pounds 10 ounces, I pushed for about three hours and I asked for a section, I ran out of steam. Regardless of the size alot depends on the presentation of the baby.
Great, I’m 27 weeks pregnant and now terrified of having a giant baby!
My son weighed 9lb 13oz at birth. The last few weeks of my pregnancy I thought he was going to drop out! My ankles were hugely swollen and I could barely walk. The dilation phase of labor was very short for me. It was the pushing that took forever. Turns out my son had a big head and could not turn in the birth canal. Then came the forceps. I can honestly say they hurt worse than any other part of my labor. I ended up with a 3rd degree tear/episiotomy and wished like hell I had a c-section! To those that are pregnant, make sure you keep on top of your dr. to monitor your blood sugar! Turns out I had gestational diabetes that contributed to son’s large size.
Minx2,
I also had lumbar disc problems after delivering my son. I had to have a ruptured disc removed when he was still an infant.
LOL, that’s how much my second baby weighed. It was a vaginal birth and I hate to scare you future mothers, but you just can’t Kegel your way back from some deliveries. *sob*
@HRH Don’t be terrified!! Once you are holding that beautiful baby, it is all worth it! As I said in my earlier post, I had a large baby for my size. I had an epidural, my delivery was a breeze, and my son was a happy, healthy baby. Just remember, your experience will be what you make it to be! 🙂
I would think she’d have a natural birth. She’s a lingerie model, having a ginormous scar across her stomach wouldn’t be a good look on the catwalk.
Mirlando?? LOL.
oh please trying being less than 5ft tall and pushing out a 13.5lb baby like Dolly Sinatra did with her only son Francis Albert on the Kitchen floor of her mothers house december 13th 1915. not all celebs go c section route and sometimes it’s needed for example a breatch presentation or multiples.
Emily, lol! a c-section scar isn’t across the tummy area, its a small line just above the pubic hair line so bikini wearing is still poss (only if you are a super model!!) It also fades with time, so doubt this would affect her modelling career
I had to chime in as well with my 2 natural childbirths without drugs. For me, having surgery scared me *more* than having the labor and delivery pain. I just hate the thought of not being able to walk around or be able to walk to the restroom to sit on the pot to pee with an epidural. And at least my babies were 7-8 pounds, not 10! Yikes! But it’s still totally doable. I’ve known several super moms that have done so naturally without meds.
Yeah, don’t most celebs schedule c sections?
Giselle B had her son at home with midwives though.
Orlando’s face is just gorgeous, I hope the baby takes after him 😀 .
Good that he has a role in The Hobbit, his best work was in the LOTR films, all he had to do was stand there and look pretty, he’s not a good actor normally.
Oh and yes for a while there I was an Orli-Loony, even got to see him in the flesh at one of the LOTR premiers in NZ. That was a great day, oh the memories hehe 😀 .
why doesnt orlando just grow out his hair and keep it elfin whiteblonde, like forever and ever – his beauty was unsurpassed there.
darkhaired orlando does nothing for me :/
no comment about birthing. birthing virgin here.
This is a relationship built only on looks.
I was apparently 9lbs when I was born.
These birth stories sound scary! I guess you really have to have a strong sense of responsibility and maternal instinct to want to go through all of that.
I prefer pirates orly over lotr orly… White, long, straight limp hair doesn’t suit him in my eyes.
Too bad his role is so short in the upcoming film.
They are both gorgeous
Thanks Wif! I love that folks are sharing their birth stories! 🙂 I’ve got 3 1/2 months to go & now that everything seems a-ok with the Bean, its the labor part that is freaking me out! Its really awesome to hear other people’s stories, it makes it seems a lot less scary
The absolute worst child birth story came from my mother. She was doing her L&D rotation in nursing school (we’re talking back in the late ’70’s) and there was an emergency c-section that she observed. Well, they couldn’t get a hold of the anesthesiologist to come in and knock the woman out. This poor woman had to go thru an emergency c-section with a local anesthetic.
Im 28 weeks pregnant and I plan on an epidural. I joke with people when they ask if I plan on using drugs I say “Im giving birth as nature intended- strapped to a table, numb from the neck down” lol!! Im hoping to avoid a c-section but we will see when the time comes!
10 pounds is something like 4.5kilos, right?
My friend’s grandmother gave birth to a child whose weight at birth was 13pounds circa (6kg), and she is 4’11 tall (1,50m). And no c-section or epidural back in the 50’s. The strange thing is that that child as an adult is now not tall at all.
10# !!??!!!?
jeez, i’ll bet that hurt our slight cutie!
congrats you two – carry on.
Mirlando! hahaha 😀
I had to have an emergency C at the 11th hour after a whole day of trying to push bubby out (I had an epidural so at least I had no contraction pains), and the poster who said that recovery after a C takes longer is 100% right. Now, 8 months after the event, my C scar is still very much there and the area is still a little tender. I tried to have bubby the old-fashioned way but his head was too wide for my cervix. We’re small people, so bubby only weighed 2.82kg when he came out even though I’d gained a whopping 20kg during the pregnancy. And, yes, the last month of your last trimester is the worst – almost as bad as the first trimester if you had nausea and sickness, which I did.
It’s natural, I think, to fear vaginal birth, and natural, also, to fear pregnancy and motherhood. Not all women want to be mothers (my sister doesn’t), and not all women want more than one child. 🙂 I think I’m in the latter category – but only time will tell. 😀
I had a C-section and 2 vaginal births. Vaginal births are so much easier to recover from, after my C-section I couldn’t even sit up by myself. Fear is the biggest problem surrounding vaginal childbirth, which is a shame, becuase it can be a very beautiful and empowering experience.
Wow, that’s a chunky baby! One of my close friends actually had her first baby last year, aged 17, and her daughter weighed 9 lbs 11 oz. She was born vaginally, and it was a really smooth, beautiful birth, so I’m told. I think it must be incredibly empowering, to come out the other side of such a huge experience and have a healthy baby and a healthy self, but I must admit I too am a little apprehensive about the whole thing. I mean, I definitely want to have children, and I definitely want to give birth to them naturally, but pushing something that big out of something so small is kind of… worrisome. Amazing though!
Anyway, congratulations to Orlando and Miranda 🙂 I’m sure the baby is beautiful! x
Now that we’ve told the horror stories, I want to share one of my fave birth stories. My aunt and uncle had their daughter around 1950, or 1955. They raced as fast as they could to the local, small, catholic hospital. The baby couldn’t wait and was born in the car. So my uncle and aunt (bent over carrying new baby between her legs because of the umbilical cord) entered the hospital. The nuns sat my aunt and baby down in the waiting room, because they were just fine, and took my uncle away first to treat him for shock.
JenJen-She is a model for Victoria’s Secret. The Bombshell T-shirt she has on is an advertisement for a line of their underwear or bras. Something like that.
I was 9 lbs 7 and a half ounce baby. My sister said three pounds of that was hair. Lol. No, really I was fat. My fat rolls had fat rolls. My mom almost died during the birth. It was a VBAC and she was high risk, but for some reason the doctor let her have me naturally. She has my younger brother by a c-section.
A c-section scar doesn’t have to be bad at all. I’ve seen one on my friend, it was thin, horizontal white line above her pubic hair. She could easily wear a bathing suit.
Personally, I would not have an elective c-section. But then again, I did have a very easy labor. After I got my epidural I was asleep until it was time to push for 45 minutes. I had an episiotomy and it didn’t bother me at all. Not even when it was healing.
After a c-section most women have difficulty coughing, laughing, and walking. You’re cutting into some pretty important muscles after all. After my labor I was up and walking around after about 30 minutes.
BUT, every woman and every delivery is different. I’ve had a few friends have horrible vaginal deliveries and they probably would’ve been better off with a c-section.
Also, I just found out that I’m pregnant with baby number 2! Oops! 😀 I feel exactly the same as I did with my first pregnancy so I’m convinced it’s another girl!
My first was 8 pounds, 8 ounces two weeks early, delivered by midwives after 30 minutes of pushing. And my second, my little girl, was 9 pounds 6 ounces a week early, delivered by the same midwife with only four pushes. My midwife was from Germany and she delivered 12 and 14 pound babies naturally without a problem. I think head size is the issue – big heads run on my side of the family so I’m built to handle them!
My grandmother was 4’9″, had 6 kids vaginally and my mom was 14 lbs at birth. And she grew into a woman as tiny as her mom. It’s amazing what the human body can handle!
Congrats to the couple on their new baby!
it’s the head size. Both kids naturally. My daughter 7 lbs 5 oz. Pushed for about 20 minutes and didn’t get any stitches. Hurt like hell, but totally doable.
My son was 8 lbs 12 oz, a head that was in the 98% AND sunnyside up. That means instead of his smushy face along my backbone throughout labor, i got to feel his skull. Ouch. AND instead of the the crown of his head coming out first, it was his forehead and then his face and then the rest of his head. It was the sunnyside up that did it. I think even with a head that big, it wouldn’t’ve been so terrible if he’d just been facing the right way.
Regardless, I pushed for under an hour and didn’t get any stitches.
Ladies, your body is built for this. You can do it!
Aw, I love birth! I hope she was able to deliver vaginally. I wouldn’t wish a cesarean on anyone.
As someone who has not pushed anything out of my personal area (well, anything alive in its own right!), I commend you all. But now I feel bad for my mom. I have a HUGE head.
I had my daughter vaginally. The pain was bad, but linking it to something so wonderfull as finally seeing her helped me.
I love to just let the body do what it’s supposed to do. Best way for me.
OMG, I bow to all those that gave birth to 9+lb babies. My biggest baby was 7lbs and he should’ve been a c-section (big head). I can’t imagine carrying around 9+lbs at the end.
I had the worst birth ever with my first. 72 hours of labor, all being induced. Epidural for 19 hours. Pusjed for two hours, finally had to use the vac and had tearing. Placenta then didn’t want to come out, which led to major bleeding. The friggin janitor had to mop up the blood before my family could come in.
Second baby was 9 pounds, 19 hour labor, three pushes and out he came. Worst part of vag deliveries is going #2 after the stitching. Argh!
You forget quick, as quick as it takes them to give you the baby. I’d do it 1000 times over to have my precious two children. Don’t be afraid, it is one of the most profound, feminine, empowering thing in your whole life.
I am throwing a baby shower this weekend for my friend who is ready to pop and she looks like a gorgeous goddess. It’s the best thing ever…
I did wonder if seeing it was going to freak my hubby out of wanting to see my “ladybits” in a sexual way ever again. Not to worry, that went fine too.
:)))
My oldest was 8 lbs, 5 oz. I laboured for 17 hours, and pushed him out in less than 10 minutes. My second was 8 lbs, 13 oz. Labour, 9-and-a-half hours, delivered her in 4 minutes. No drugs with either one. The thought of someone inserting a needle into my spine undid me! My youngest, though; he’s a different story (different daddy, too). At 3-and-a-half weeks early, he was born via ER C-section. He weighed in at 8 lbs, 9 oz. Now I’m a tall gal, but hubby is 6’5″. Had our little one not been early, he’d probably have been a monster, too.
To all my pregnant fellow Celebitchy fans: Anyone who says she’s not afraid of labour/delivery is lying. Don’t fret. You will get through it, however you must, and your health and the health of your baby are the most important things to remember!
Congrats to the impossibly beautiful couple on their little man.
Great story. They are adorable, and it’s so nice to hear about a healthy, big baby birth. Love all around!
Also…the 10 lb thing…Kaiser, your hoo-ha will be ripped and it will hurt like hell whether the baby is 7 lbs or 10. Does that help? 🙂
Looks like you got plenty of advice, Kaiser. The comments have gone “Ker-Bloom” here 😀
Kid #1: 33 hours of labor, 3 hours pushing, face up baby, 7 lb. 11.5 oz. Two cute residents “helping” me through the birth process = negative 1000 points for dignity.
Kid #2: Four hours of labor, 5 seconds pushing, 6 lb. 15 oz.
@Amy I am proof you can Kegel your way back from the abyss! It works only if you’re constantly doing it, but it works.
Love that first picture! They’re a darling couple!
This baby is going to be a fattie…I can’t believe this!!! Its parents are so thin…strange
I was originally planning a water birth, but since my daughter was breech, I ended up having to do a planned c-section. I recovered really well – much better than many friends who’ve had vaginal births – and I’m not exactly in great shape. Oh – and my babe was 9lbs 5 oz, so I’m glad it ended up being a c-section!
Now I’m 9 weeks away from scheduled c-section #2. My doctor gave me the choice of VBAC or c-section, and I told him he’s only allowed to violate one area, and that was determined last time with the c-section! The c-section scar is nothing, btw – the stretch marks, if you have them, are much, much worse and don’t go away to the extent that the c-section scar does. Wishing all the pregnant women on the board a healthy delivery that is as painless as possible!
@Ruby Red Lips, lol thanks! Clearly I’ve never had a C-section, I thought they were massive scars.
Emily- They used to be pretty bad. Doctors used to do them vertically. Not much luck hiding that in a bikini! They’ve come a long way thankfully!
I am about average size 5’6″ and my husband is 5’10” and our first son was delivered on his due date and he weighed 12 lbs and 2 oz. I pushed for 10 1/2 hrs before an emergency C-section. Our daughter was taken 2 weeks early and weighed 10 lbs 12 oz and our youngest was taken 3 weeks early (all c-section due to their sizes) and weighed in at 9 lbs 11 oz. It must run in my family because my aunt had twins that were 8 1/2 and 9 lbs delivered at 35 weeks. I would have died!
I am now done and wish the rest of you women the best of luck with your babies and deliveries!
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