Ashley Graham, Rebecca Minkoff and More Moms Share Postpartum Stories in Life After Birth

In the book's foreword, the model explains that her water broke during an at-home yoga class. "And with that, our labor journey began," Graham writes of the birth of her son Isaac Menelik Giovanni in January 2020.

Almost six hours later, after walking around her Brooklyn apartment, Graham was in the birthing pool in her living room. Her support team included her husband Justin Ervin, her midwives and her doula, according to Life After Birth.

"I was on my back. My knees were pressed into my husband's stomach. I was pushing. I yelled, 'Progress!' " Graham writes.

After Ervin told her he could see the baby's head, "with tears in his eyes," Graham writes that she found "the strength to push him out."

"A moment later, my son was on my chest," Graham, who just announced she's expecting twin boys with Ervin, remembers in the book. "He was looking his dad in the eyes. It was like we recognized him, and he recognized us."

Graham told her two boys, "We're a family forever now."