Photo:Cristina King
Cristina King
In the first episode of the two-parter, Reed revealed that in the weeks leading up to her son’s birth, she wasn’t planning on using a midwife until “something in my plan still didn’t feel complete.”
“My first birth with my daughter, it was in the hospital and while it was unmedicated, which is what I was going for, it was still all kinds of chaotic, for all these different reasons,” she says. “I didn’t realize that for this whole pregnancy, that little bit that I haven’t totally unpacked was in the back of my mind like, ‘Is this going to happen again?’ "
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Reed’s water broke in her sleep in the middle of the night, panicking a sleeping Somerhalder. “I’ve never seen anything like it. It must have caught him in a moment, and he shoots up and starts running and shoots over to the door and yells, ‘YOUR WATER BROKE!’ as he slams on all the lights.”
Nikki Reed and Ian Somerhalder.Momodu Mansaray/Getty Images
Momodu Mansaray/Getty Images
In the caption to her birth photos, Reed wrote, “This was one of themost transformative nightsof my life, and walking through it again with these ladies was so sweet.”
“To be honest, the reason I felt compelled to share something so personal is because I have this burning desire to highlight the value of midwifery care, and showcase the incredible wisdom that these women bring to the birth space and beyond. Particularly in the postpartum period, so many women are left without support and together we need to change that,” continued the new mom of two, who also sharesdaughter Bodhi Soleil, 6, with Somerhalder.
“When I think back at my birth, I cannot help but feel an almost indescribable love for the care I was given. They quite literally held me up when my body needed support, and have held me in every moment of uncertainty since,” noted Reed of her team, which also included midwife Johanna Storey.
source: people.com
