Gisele Bundchen is no stranger to giving birth having welcomed two children with her ex-husband Tom Brady. Following news that she is now pregnant with her third child – and her first with her boyfriend Joaquim Valente – Gisele has no doubt already considered her birth plan. It's highly likely that the supermodel will stick to tradition and have another home birth, which she did with her son Benjamin, 14, and daughter Vivian, 11.
However, at the time of their births, Gisele was advised by her doctor that it was "too dangerous" for her to give birth at home, and she should consider a C-section instead. Gisele went against her doctor's warning at the time and insisted on welcoming her children at home because she has "always dreamed of giving birth naturally, at home". The supermodel admitted in the past that her insistence on a home birth also stems from her fear of hospitals after her twin sister, Pati, developed double pneumonia when they were ten years old.
In her 2018 book, Lessons: My Path to a Meaningful Life , Gisele recalled how she met a woman named Mayra who was studying to be a midwife. Mayra told Gisele that the "most soothing way for a newborn to enter the world was into water," a conversation that stuck with Gisele so much, that she had water births with both her children and will likely do the same with her third. In her book, Gisele also said that giving birth to Benjamin and Vivian at home were the "two most extraordinary experiences" of her life.
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