What a wonderful interview! It’s so nice to see a celebrity that chose names that are real. Beautiful family. I was surprised that anyone could find a reason to comment negatively on her story. Having a baby is beautiful, regardless of how the delivery goes. I have four boys…two vaginal w/epidurals, one vaginal natural (do not recommend unless you are made of steel) and the last one unplanned c-section due to breach presentation (ultrasound found his butt completely wedged in my cervix with legs going straight up). I would gladly go through vaginal-natural three more times than another c-section. To ME, it was awful! I am diabetic, so when I had my fourth son c-section, he had very low blood sugars (he was at 4, 0 you are dead or close to it). He was immediately taken to the NICU and I was taken to my room. I was not allowed to see my son for 14 hours, other than pics my husband would go take with the digital camera and bring them back for me. I was incredibly numb and they wouldn’t attempt to put me in a wheelchair until I had quite a bit of movement back. My son was too sick to leave the nursery for them to bring him to see me. A very wobbly me was finally dumped into a wheelchair (still not moving much, but I think they just wanted to shut me up and knew that taking me to my baby was the only way to accomplish that!) and I was wheeled in to see my beautiful new baby. He had wires all over him, an IV in his head (they shaved his beautiful hair), and a tube down his throat. But he was the most beautiful thing I’d seen since my last son (who was just as beautiful as the son before that and the son before that). I didn’t get to hold him, but I was allowed to reach in and touch him. I was only able to touch and rub his leg as that was the only thing that didn’t have wires and machines attached. The next day I was able to hold him while sitting in a chair next to where he was still connected to everything. He developed billi ruben on top of everything else so for the next six days, I only got to hold him for 30 minutes every three hours to breastfeed him. I couldn’t even hold him in the nursery since he had to stay under the lights. I would just sit in the rocking chair and watch him until I got to feed him again. Those 30 minutes went by way too fast, but I cherished those minutes and fell in love more and more with him each time!!! Needless to say, after he was brought home at a week old, his butt rarely touched anything that was not part of mommy or daddy. We couldn’t put him down. If we had to go potty, Grandma took over and held him. Recovering from the C-sec was awful as well. It was definitely worse than the vaginal recovery. IT HURT LIKE HELL!!! Well, my last son is almost 3 now and still loves to be rocked nighty nighty and is the most loving, affectionate child. He loves to be snuggled, even for just a minute, gives out kisses and hugs all day and says “Of You” (his version of love you) every chance he gets!!! So, see, everyone has different experiences when having a child. Mine was frightening and just plain horrible all the way around, but I certainly don’t think mine was any worse than Dayna’s deliveries. Hers were what they were to HER and mine were MINE. I have respect for her and any woman that can be open and honest about their experiences. Those who say everything was smooth and perfect and they were up doing jumping jacks the next day are still taking the drugs for pain (maybe a few too many!!!!).

Congrats Dayna – enjoy those babies…they grow up too fast! My first son is now 16 and driving!!!

And Dayna…thanks for having respect to us mothers. I have four boys that I take care of on my own as I am a stay at home mom and I love my life! Of course, the weekends are especially wonderful…Daddy/Hubby is home and he is a wonderful, involved father so I do get a little break.

Sorry for such a long post. But I wanted to share too!

I’m glad to see celebrity moms being honest out there. They are not making it sound glamorous and easy to have it all — the perfect birth, bouncing back to perfect weight, career and family (without a nanny), etc. As a mom, you see these false images out there and you don’t hear the bad stories…or that your baby is kind of a “blob” for a while…you only get the dream of the child. I’m so happy women like Dayna and others are giving women a little reality when they talk about birth, babies, etc.

Oh thank you Danielle for publishing this interview, I happen to love Dayna on Extra and just love her bubbly personality and reading this interview just warmed my heart. Emmi and Cole are just so adorable. Congrats Dayna on your family.

Shannon did all the work!

This a weird bunch of comments. There is only one OB/Gyn group in my large miswestern city that will do VBAC, because none of the doctors can afford the malpractice insurance.
Why be demeaning about someone else’s birth experience?

So when Angelina used the word blob (the interviewer did, not Angelina) the outcry was outrageous. People screamed how Angelina is a terrible mother and must not love her biological child. And think of poor Shiloh when she grows up to find out her mother called her a blob. Gwen Stefani used the word and now Dayna Devon. I guess these two must hate their children too but a bit more than Angelina hates Shiloh because Gwen and Dayna actually said the word.(sarcasm)

For those of you who do not WANT a second Csection but think that your doctor or hospital will not “allow it”. They HAVE to. EMTALA is a law that protects women in a hospital in labor. If you are in *active labor in a hospital they cannot refuse to treat you – federally. And YOU can refuse to consent to any procedure, including a section.

Kudos to Dayna and CBB for a beautiful and candid interview!

P Dawn, you did such a great job negating and destroying Dayna’s comments you forgot to dissect her book recommendations.

It is sad when mothers we are not able to merely accept other’s opinions and narratives of their life experiences.

Again, I enjoyed the interview and behind the scenes look at a celebrity mom!

Love this site!

Oh…Thanks for the post. Dayna seems so happy and in love with her family and Emmi is just cutest girl. I saw her birthday party on Extra and I was jealous(seriously)..she had her red-carpet party. Go Emmi.

Well I just wanted to say CONGRATS on two beautiful children. I think everyone is too concerned with the details of your birth experience and your comments -well I enjoyed it very much. You have a beautiful family Dayna and I wish you guys the best! Oh yeah – Happy Early Mother’s Day!!
Taylor