Gigi Hadidis getting candid about giving birth.
Opting against a hospital check-in during the pandemic, Hadid planned for a home birth and, according toVogue, set up an inflatable bath in their bedroom — and they had their dog and three cats looked after during so they wouldn’t accidentally puncture the vessel.
And rather than a birthing playlist of soothing music, Hadid requested to listen to the 1995 kids' movieThe Indian in the Cupboardin the background. “That’s something we’d never talked about but in that moment we discovered we both loved,” she recalls of the spur-of-the-moment entertainment decision.
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The new mom says she had to “dig deep” during the birth, admitting she “knew it was going to be the craziest pain in my life, but you have to surrender to it and be like, ‘This is what it is.’ I loved that.”
“There definitely was a point where I was like, ‘I wonder what it would be like with an epidural, how it would be different.’ My midwife looked at me and was like, ‘You’re doing it. No one can help you. You’re past the point of the epidural anyway, so you’d be pushing exactly the same way in a hospital bed.’ "
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Hadid recalls Malik and her family being “in terror” witnessing her labor — and she and Malik agreed to give some time before trying for another new addition.
“Afterward, Z and I looked at each other and were like, ‘We can have some time before we do that again!’ "
source: people.com
