Source : PERTHNOW NEWS
Sienna Miller was “euphoric” after becoming pregnant in her forties.
The 44-year-old actress had resigned herself to being a mother of one, to 14-year-old daughter Marlowe whom she shares with her ex-boyfriend Tom Sturridge, and was overjoyed to get pregnant later in life and welcome two kids with fiancé Oli Green, 29.
Sienna – who had a second daughter in 2024 and a son earlier this year – told British Vogue: “I had thought, by the time I was 40, that it wouldn’t happen. That I’d have my one baby and I kind of made peace with it. It was such a surprise, and it was such a bonus that I was just euphoric. I felt existentially relieved.”
“I’d wanted another baby for so long that my postpartum was just bliss. I also had the world’s easiest baby – she barely cried! She was so content. She was so peaceful. Of course, the hormonal shift happened, but I felt very cocooned.”
Sienna admitted her positive experience with her second and third children was completely different to how she felt after welcoming Marlowe following “a dramatic emergency” C-section.
She said: “I felt quite abandoned by all the support I’d had throughout the pregnancy. There wasn’t as much focus on postpartum then. I remember people saying to me, ‘I’m not going to ring you because you’ll be in your blissful little bubble,’ and feeling so disappointed that it didn’t feel like that. I felt like I’d really failed.”
And following her first emergency C-section and her second planned C-section, Sienna opted for a natural birth with her third.
She explained: “I really wanted to have a natural birth with my third, which is kind of unheard of – especially after two C-sections. And I did it.”
And, she signed up for The Tenth, a postpartum and maternal recovery outfit, to help her recover after.
She said: “To have that support of somebody being concerned for your wellbeing, as well as the baby’s, is essential for women. And I think it’s probably how things used to be. With Marlowe, when the health visitor would pop by, I was so relieved to have somebody. It was unbelievable, invaluable.”
