Comments on: Natascha McElhone Opens Up About Delivering Rex Alone

By: victoria

victoria — Sat, 09 May 2009 18:32:00 +0000

wow this is heartbreaking to read but she seems so strong- i cannt even imagine doing what she does daily with out my hubby =( my heart goes out to her and her boys

By: eternalcanadian

eternalcanadian — Fri, 08 May 2009 08:51:04 +0000

Aw, what an intense story to read! Such a strong family to be able to enjoy the joys and fun a new baby brings and yet remember the man that helped make the baby. Blessings to this sweet family! Rex indeed is a “little Buddha!”

By: Erica

Erica — Thu, 07 May 2009 23:43:00 +0000

How incredibly brave and composed Natascha sounds in these interviews. Her boys are extremely lucky to have her and vice versa–Rex is so adorable on the magazine cover.

By: Marie

Marie — Thu, 07 May 2009 22:07:31 +0000

There’s a beautiful cover shot of Natascha and Rex, and some lovely ones inside the magazine:

http://www.hellomagazine.com/photo-galleries.html?imagen=/film/2009/05/05/hello-mcelhone-baby/imgs/hello-cover-1071-a.jpg

I too found this so sad to read yet so hopeful and beautiful. One of the things that stood out in the article was when Natascha said that she took Martin’s mother with her to her 20 week scan, just days after Martin had died and found out the sex of the baby because she wanted some certainty among the devastation.

I don’t know if any of you read the Martin’s obituary? Natascha wrote it for a national newspaper here in the UK and it was, as one journalist said, a heartbreaking piece of writing. It made me cry, not only because of what she and her sons had lost but because she could be so eloquent in her grief. She said she wrote it at the encouragement of Martin’s best friend who said she was the only one who could do it – and that she had wanted to get in there ‘and shout aloud his name, make sure no-one misunderstood him.’ She said that what she and Martin had been blessed with in their time together was more than ‘I could have wished for in my wildest dreams’ and why she still felt like the luckiest woman alive. She said: ‘I have love in my life.’

By: T

Thu, 07 May 2009 21:28:21 +0000

I just can’t even imagine what she’s been going through internally since her husband’s death. Trying to reconcile all those conflicting emotions! Ecstatic about giving birth to her baby, but equally devastated to have to do it alone. Watching the baby’s milestones but still sad because only she gets to keep those memories instead of getting to share them with her husband. When she talks about her situation she is always so wise and brave about it. She never sounds bitter just peacefully resigned. She makes me feel ashamed to complain about the insignificant issues in my life.

By: Rose

Rose — Thu, 07 May 2009 21:09:26 +0000

She’s amazing. Beautiful inside and out.

By: NIxx

NIxx — Thu, 07 May 2009 20:37:36 +0000

I say to the boys, ‘Daddy used to do this with you guys.’ They’ll say, ‘Lets do it to Rexy!’ And we all pile in and give him hugs.”

This warms my heart and breaks it all at the same time.

By: pia

pia — Thu, 07 May 2009 20:17:52 +0000

goodness… what an amazingly brave and beautiful person she is!
wonderful and entirely heartbreaking to read.

By: S

Thu, 07 May 2009 20:08:58 +0000

What a gorgeous baby! It’s wonderful that she seems to have such clarity about such a sad part of life.

By: Christine

Christine — Thu, 07 May 2009 18:56:01 +0000

I love hearing updates from her and I am so glad that she is doing so well, but for some reason, this post made me incredibly sad.