Evangeline Lilly, who’ll play an elf in The Hobbit, opted for a natural birth in her own home when she delivered her son last May. She must be a sadomasochist because it lasted 30 hours and 8 of them was just her pushing.
“I actually skipped the hospital … We decided to have the baby at home because we wanted it to be a natural birth, and it turns out that it was 30 hours of natural,” the Real Steel star, 32, explained during a Monday appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
“Eight hours of pushing, that’s the part that men don’t understand. Women go, ‘Oh, dear, oh, dear God, eight hours of pushing?’ And the men are like, ‘Okay, eight hours of pushing.’”
“After about five hours of pushing, my midwife and my birthing assistant said, ‘You know, we have a few suggestions,’” she says. “And I was like, ‘Really? After five hours of pushing you have a few suggestions? You couldn’t have told me five minutes in?’” PEOPLE
Women always say men will never understand what they go through during childbirth. I respectfully disagree. 8 hours of pushing? Clearly they never ate at the Indian restaurant by me.
