I had 18 hours labour after waters breaking and it was horrific. I don’t know how I am going to do this again. Great storytelling, brought me to tears.

Thank you for sharing your beautiful story.

Breastfeeding was horrible all 3 times I tried… I was depressed until I stopped. No one ever talks about that part. The minute I stopped breastfeeding and I started to sleep my depression went away. This happened with all 3 of my children. Congratulations on your beautiful baby❤️

I’m 37 weeks with my second and literally sobbed through this whole video 😂 it made me so excited to meet my sweet baby girl, Della ❤️ you’re such a warrior Allie!!!! So proud of you!!! Congratulations on your beautiful baby girl ❤️❤️

43 hours of labor with my first son.....total of 3 kids and never had an epidural. I was always too afraid to get one. Congrats on your new baby girl.

Such a sweet video keep the full story to share when its your daughters turn to be a mother. 3 out of my 4 was all natural and I wouldn't have it any other way. so much faster. I now have 12 grandkids and my youngest went all natural and said she's done.

Due dates are estimates. I wish women would understand this. 42 weeks is still a NORMAL due date. Rushing the natural process can end up hurting mom and baby.

Wow, this video is an emotional rollar coaster!!! Congrats to Allie, Adam, Landon and Jax on their new family member!!!

I’m 18 weeks & can’t wait to be holding my little one! It’s my second pregnancy as well. Congratulations to your family, I was tearing up with all the details & just seeing you glow with happiness! I’m so very happy for you and can only hope to have the same experience!

I wish I had given up breastfeeding sooner. I really hated it and I had trouble bonding with my baby because of it. I finally started formula after 3 months, and it was incredible. I also had a great pediatrician who told me on my first newborn appointment that his kids were all 100% bottle fed and not to worry about it if I needed to switch. Fed is best!

Wow… how magical! You are a WARRIOR! What a beautiful birth story!!! You must feel like a freaking beast birthing two beautiful babies!! You go momma and Ellie!!

Congratulations and what a beautiful story and little blessing. I gave birth 4 times naturally and I never wanted an epidural because my doctor told me it could slow down the birthing process. I was able to go back to my room, take a shower and put my own nice comfy clothes on. It definitely hurts and you definitely feel everything but I feel it was worth the pain. Merry Christmas ❤️

Congratulations to both you and Adam on the new member of your family! (And congrats to Landon on becoming a big brother 👏🏻)

The best thing for your baby is a healthy mommy! Killin it, mama!

Our stories are so similar!! My first son was named Landon Carter too and I had an epidural. My second born Jan 8, I needed to be induced due to pre-eclampsia symptoms and that made things progress so fast that I didn't have time for the epidural and yup 4 pushes later and my Finn was out 😍 and my recovery naturally vs with epidural was sooo.much easier, I didn't tear at all. it's so cool to be able to experience it both! Now my son is almost 1. Congrats Allie!!! ❤️ Ellie is precious ❤️

Congratulations 🎉 to you and your family. I'm so happy everything went well for you guys. Ellie is such a cutie and Landon will be an amazing big brother. I can't wait to see what the future holds for your family. Love you Allie ❤️

Loved hearing your story. You look so happy and glowing 🥰 love to you and your family xx

Thanks for sharing your story, Allie! You’re amazing ❤️ Something similar happened to me with my second baby. I had an unplanned emergency c-section with my first daughter, so the plan for my second daughter’s birth was scheduled c-section. Long story short, though, my labour progressed way too quickly and I wasn’t able to get a c-section or even an epidural, so it ended up being an unmedicated VBAC. It was AWFUL and so so hard, but I got through it! It’s amazing what our bodies can do - I’m super proud of myself, and you should be proud of yourself too! 💕

Congratulations! So happy for your little family 🥰 My husband and I are expecting our first baby in February and I am low key happy that hospital is limiting people as well.

Congratulations!!! I too found out the gender of my babies when they were born. What beautiful surprises. A son then a daughter.

I had 3 babies, only 1 epidural. The second was the same situation as yours, by the third I didn’t want the epidural. It’s so much easier to go without an epidural, IMO. My deliveries were also really fast! Congrats on your little family!!!

I had an epidural with both of my labour/deliveries! First one was 10 mins pushing and believe it or not the second one took 20 mins!

You know how proud I am of you!!!! You are amazing, and we are true super hero’s! 52 minutes of no epidural and pushing with CJ, so I feel you bestie! I love you and I love baby Ellie so so much!

That is so nice about the midwife. Nosy 71 y o woman back with comments. Having a midwife for your practitioner is wonderful. That’s what I’d chose if I was childbearing now too. I had the “ easy” deliveries of 4 hrs, 2 hrs and 9 hrs labor with my three kids.

I completely agree birth and early postpartum is a private time.

I think midwives want a fed baby above all, whether you breastfeed or bottle/formula feed! You look radiant! Congratulations!

I teared up so many times during this video ❤️❤️ you’re amazing thanks for sharing this

Your story is so similar to mine! I had my 3rd baby boy 11/2 at 2am. He was 8.5 and was born within 45 mins of making it to the hospital. I was in SOOO much pain when we got there. They rushed me to the emergency area to check in and be checked. I couldn’t even focus to sign in and everything it was all scribbles. So they hooked me up and checked me and I was a 7. They took my blood and told me they needed to get me upstairs to L&D. I got up there and they checked me again and I was a 10. They said I couldn’t get the epidural and I cried and cried! I thought I was gonna die! I told the ER dr over and over that I was gonna die! He was a blessing though, he coached me through it all and my baby was born safe and fast! He did end up having to cut me and I still had a 3rd degree tear but my recovery was still so much better than the other 2. I wouldn’t change a thing!!

Your emotions just show how important it is to have compassionate care ❤

I had my 1st baby natural and she came out in 20mins I do think natural may be faster. Congrats on baby ellie ❤ so cute

I'm so,so proud of you and so excited for your birth of your little girl, i bottle fed for my second child, i felt so much better for it,

Welcome to the world Miss Ellie. God bless her ❤️

Congratulations! She is beautiful. I had my twins natural without epidural or anything. It was worth every pain!

I had both of my daughters thru natural no epidural birth.. no doubt that is one of the most painful experiences but the good part was that an hour later I was up taking a shower and carrying my baby!! Congrats to you and your husband you are both troopers!!

Congratulations on your baby girl! 💕 you are literally the best mommy!!! ❤️

Congrats!!! I had my second son last year and I so wanted to go natural. I tried, I just couldn’t do it. Way to go!!!

Loved your transparency of your entire experience! Thank you for sharing! Also, thought your 712 numbers was so cool and that it would be fun to share that in many places in the world they write the date with the day first and then month making your numbers 7/12, 7:12, 7lb12oz ! What a cool detail to remember about your birth.

Allie, I love the way you spoke and carried yourself in this video in comparison to the videos you talk in, “TikTok speak” please keep it up!!

Congratulations. What a crazy labor story. I'm so glad you're happy with it despite the pain in the moment. I'm planning to combo feed baby #2 and I'm so nervous about talking to the lactation consultants. My doctor was super supportive. I gave her a brief description of my breastfeeding issues with my son and she said, "You were so relieved when you started formula, right?". "OH yes. I'm planning to combo feed from the beginning this time." "That's wonderful. That works well for many women." So I'm not worried about doctors or nurses, but the lactation consultants....I'm so glad it was in your file and they didn't bother you. That was encouraging. I'm going to ask my doctor to put that I will be both breast and formula feeding my baby in my chart to maybe prevent some of the formula shaming (I got formula shamed in the hospital with my son).

As a fellow Rhode Islander, as soon as I heard you say “women and infants” I felt SO connected with you!! What an empowering birth story. I love the name you chose for her❤ congrats!

I completely agree about the breastfeeding! I was easy with my first but so hard with my second! I’ll never forget the lactation consultant telling me that my baby was thriving at my expense.

Thanks for sharing your labor and delivery with Ellie. Wonderful story💗 I totally agree about midwives, I had one for both of my children. Best of luck and God Bless ♥️🙏

You and your baby girl Eille is so beautiful. Nice story!

I love your story 100%. Finding out at birth is wonderful. Back in my day they only gave pain meds for the last 15 mins of birth. My third was no time for meds. I was pushing when I got to the hospital. The doctor was washing his hands and saying, “pant, pant”. My water broke as I was pushing when I got the go ahead to push. I kept thinking geez, I would have chosen this had I know how “easy” it was.

Thank you for sharing! I’m seven weeks and this is so helpful! Congratulations!

Congratulations to you all!! I have been watching since you and Adam first moved in together and the Disney engagement etc! I love your story and am thankful for you sharing these precious moments with me and everyone! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your beautiful family!

Congratulations!! 🎉 Girl you look amazing for just having a baby! Radiant!🙌👏🥰 I was along the same pregnancy journey with you had my baby girl 3 months ago and also craved coffee when I was pregnant with her. 🥰 Also love the outfit! Where did you get it? 💕

My son had his baby on the 7th of February. Her name is Athena River Phillips. She was 8lbs 6oz and 21.75 inches long. Congratulations

Congratulations 🎊🎈 she is sooo adorable! Landon’s going to be an amazing big brother to his little sister 💙💜

Congratulations! You guys are beautiful and I'm so glad it went well and you're all safe and well! This story was really relatable - "give me an epidural" was the main point in my birth plan too, but my midwives definitely weren't sweet and calming once they realised I was 10cm and didn't have one because it happened too quickly, they PANICKED and the run to get me from the triage in the ward where they'd left me to get to the birth suite was CRAZY and I got told not to have a baby in the elevator too lmao. I still ended up pushing for nearly 2 hours though, so I think it may be a first time vs second-time baby thing for pushing to go that quickly! I stayed in the hospital for 5 days, but I gave birth 5 years ago - right now there are people giving birth where I live who are giving birth naturally with no epidural and being sent home after 6 hours, you're very much pushed out, even if you're a first-time parent which is absolutely terrifying to think about!

Congratulations 😇👶I had both my daughters with midwives and agree about the exceptional comfort and calm care! 😊

Congratulations again!! What a great story. So happy that you are feeling good after delivery! She’s beautiful and I wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a Happy Nee Year!

Congratulations! Fed is best, some people can't produce or when they do produce its not enough, strictly breast feeding is an incredible commitment that may not be best for mama and her mental health. I had a friend who couldn't produce. She breast fed for 6 months and supplemented with formula and donated breast milk. Another friend gave birth right before you and decided to strictly breastfeed and just said her nipples were incredibly sore. If you are giving your baby nourishment. Whether it be from the breast or a bottle with formula as long as you are feeding your baby you shouldn't be judged or mom shamed. You are doing what is best for you and for your baby in either situation. So rock on mama!

Congrats! Thanks for sharing your story. I’m due with my second in March and it’s so helpful to hear how different your two stories were and encouraging to know that even if I can’t get the epidural I can do it too! Great job!!! And I LOVE the name Ellie 💕

Your experience with check in was just like what I had with my oldest.

I’m 25 weeks pregnant and not finding out the gender. It’s my third but i found out for the other two so I’m so excited i decided to wait this time!! And also, i breastfeed my children for my multiple years, it was what worked for me and my family. Just because that’s what worked for us doesn’t mean that’s what works for everyone. Nobody should ever judge somebody for the way they decide to feed their child!!

Congratulations to you and your family on your baby girl. Thank you for sharing your experience with us. I love her name 🎀 I love how you added you liked that it was just your husband, you and your daughter in the delivery room to have that bond experience. I feel that is something i would want to consider for sure. I totally understand that.

She's beautiful just like her mommy congratulations 🤩 Allie and Adam y'all did great job

You are absolutely amazing!!! So glad you had a positive labor and delivery experience even if it didn't go how you originally planned. Welcome to the world Ellie!! 💖👶💗

Love your Birth Stories ! Thanks for sharing ! And CONGRATULATIONS 🎉🎊🎈🍾 🍼👶🏻

I have has 3 natural births. All boys and they were all a pound bigger than the last. For me it was the most wonderful experience. Congratulations on your baby girl.

Love her name glad she's here for you

Congratulations on Baby Ellie.

I'm so curious, why do you say/think that formula is best? I'm so curious!!

Oh my gosh you look AMAZING!

Congratulations and happy to know you and baby are happy and healthy

Congratulations! You are an awesome momma! ❤️

Congrats on your 2nd baby!! I did see your IG announcement and was so happy to see you had a healthy delivery. Ack to no epidural though! I went in with my second baby asking what my options were too after they told me he would be arriving a little late and we were able to make an appointment. I didn't know you could make an appt if you were not doing a C-section so that was great news to me, and it made the annoying check in hospital process smoother because I wasn't in pain (so I totally get what you were complaining about there. I also want hospitals to streamline that!). About 45 minutes after I checked in I was able to get Pitocin and an epidural and smooth sailing from there! In my hospital the triage part happened with my husband in the room (they do ask if that is ok with me first) so it is also interesting to hear how different hospitals handle that. Also so cool to hear about the numerology!! It was definitely fate! So happy for your family. Enjoy these precious weeks and congrats again!!

Moms are rockstars!!!! Thank you for sharing, congratulations!!!!💗

Ellie is so cute!! I am so happy you have one of each!

Congratulations on your baby girl. I'm so happy your birth was positive. My birth so was scary and traumatic it's nice to know there are postive birth experiences out there. Idk why people feel the need to judge a momma on how they feed their baby bottles and formula are a thing for a reason

Congratulations. What a story. Thanks for sharing.

YES! I just had my baby the 7th of December also

Bottle vs Breast: when you breast feed, you tend to have more face time with the baby naturally. With the bottle one tends to not make as much face time. Back in the 70s when I had my first one, the push was to breast feed, but not everyone did. If bottle feeding, we were told to always hold the baby while feeding. I guess too many would prop a bottle up, and walk away to do chores. Not until the baby could hold their own bottle should you not feed them. I did breast feed all 3 of mine for about 6 mos. They all seemed to prefer the bottle by then. I missed holding them, so until they drank from a cup, I held them while they ate (drank). Also, all 3 of mine had jaundice after birth, so my hospital stays were 3 days which gave them enough time to be under the Bili lights. Congrats to you and your family on Ellie's arrival.

Epidurals are also dangerous. They can cuase major back issues later, including nerve damage. They can also effect the baby, stop contractions and progress, and effect blood pressure.

That's so awesome that the same midwife delivered both your babies.

When they sweep your membranes they don’t ‘scrape’ anything. They use their finger if your cervix is open enough to just separate your membranes from the area around your cervix. I had this done twice with my first, once at 40 weeks and once a week later when I was in labour to speed it up.

YAY I’m so happy you had a girl I love the name that you picked out for her.

Congratulations!!! I have been so excited to find out what you guys were having😊congratulations on your baby girl💖

Aww she is adorable

My 2 sisters were each in labor for over 24 hours with each of their children (total of 5 between them). They had the epidurals etc... So when my water broke I was taken to the hospital where everyone thought the baby would be born the next day. Due to allergies I could not have any meds. My daughter was born in 1/2 hour. When they told me to push I told them that they didn't have to tell me twice. All I felt was my back hurting (had back labor) and I couldn't wait to get her out so the pain would stop.

Congrats!! I’ve been looking forward to this video!! I know you don’t put her on social media and it is probably hard to tell, but does she look more like you or your husband? Just curious, and you probably can’t tell yet, so it’s fine if you can’t answer

Im a second baby and i was nearly 2 weeks overdue 😅😅

I just had my 2nd baby. 1st water broke and I got pitcoin, she came 11.5 hours later with epidural. 2nd I was induced to due high BP, I got an epidural but it failed so I had no pain management and she came in 2 pushes. It was wild!!!

Ok , first of all, you look AMAZING!!! Go miss Allie!!!

Thank you for sharing your story and (parts of) your family with us Allison ♡♡♡ Congratulations and Blessings

Congratulations she's so beautiful. Merry Christmas and happy new year

Congratz to your baby girl!

Congrats on the baby

Also wow 😲 you look amazing ☺️ and I love the outfit

Congrats on the baby girl! 💗

Congratulations on baby Ellie Merry Christmas

baby number one is ALWAYS going to take longer to push out, epidural or not. you have to remember that it’s your body’s first time going through pregnancy and labor and delivery. think of how it’s a lot easier to stretch a rubber band the second or third time compared to the first time. if you didn’t have the epidural with Landon, it might have made a small difference but nothing major :)

Congrats on your new bundle of joy!!!!! Absolutely beautiful!!!!

Congratulations I love her name!

Congrats you guys are wonderful parents great job

When you choose to formula feed from the start what do you do about colostrum? I mean, do you try to get them that by breastfeeding or with a pump or do you go right to a supplemental colostrum? Just curious...

Did you say, women and infants in Providence? I'm in Portsmouth but will be delivered in Newport. Still so cool to see a local KZfaqr :)

CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!! ❤️

yay, congratulations! how incredible