Celebrities Who've Had Home Births, Including Ashley Graham, Hilary Duff & More

The new mom and her husband Justin Ervin are enjoying every moment with their newborn, Isaac Menelik Giovanni. "I remember holding Isaac for the first time and telling Justin, 'Now we’re family forever,'" the model wrote alongside a photo of the proud parents gazing adoringly at their little one on Instagram. "I have so many reasons to be grateful; all of the love and support from this amazing community, an incredible husband, and a beautiful baby who has opened my eyes to just how amazing this world really is," she added.

The Olympic medalist skier helped his wife deliver their identical twin sons at home last year on Nov. 8. "I’m really just over the moon that it went as smoothly as it did and that they were as big as they were," Morgan told PEOPLE. "They’re super healthy. The delivery was fast and not necessarily easy but no issues, no problems, and it was honestly a dream for me." "I’ve done a home birth for all my kids. Honestly, it’s the only thing I know," explained the professional beach volleyball player, who’s also mom to sons Easton Vaughn Rek, 16 months, and Edward Nash Skan, 4, plus stepmom to Bode’s son Samuel Nathaniel, 6, and daughter Neesyn Dace, 11. (The couple’s daughter Emeline Grier died after a tragic drowning accident at 19 months old last year.)

The Pose star shared a photograph depicting the scene immediately following the birth of his daughter Gwendolyn, including a "messy bed," "plastic sheeting underneath old sheets," a "vomit bag (unused)," an "inflatable birthing tub (also unused)," a "happy, healthy baby," a "happy, healthy mom in her own shower right after giving birth" and the placenta, which sat in a metal bowl (out of frame here).

The Bless This Mess actress "felt very empowered" by her first home birth, which "was this amazing primal bonding" experience with daughter Nova, 5. "When my daughter came out, she had the [umbilical] cord wrapped around her neck, and it was very scary. She was on my chest and she wasn’t breathing. The midwife gave her three lifesaving breaths on my chest and my husband was there. She came to life and we saw it," Bell told costar Dax Shepard on his Armchair Expert podcast. Unfortunately, her second home birth in 2017 had further complications. It also resulted in the umbilical cord getting wrapped around her son Ozgood's neck, but unlike his older sister, "he was not coming to." "Now you’re in really f—ing life and death. Your child is there and the entire room is trying to resuscitate him and they can’t." Ultimately, he stayed in the NICU for 11 days, Bell shared: "Children's Hospital Los Angeles saved his life."

“This weekend our angel arrived healthy & perfect in every way in our bathroom at home,” the singer wrote in March 2019 after the arrival of daughter Adeya Nomi. “Unmedicated homebirth was the absolute hardest yet most powerful thing i've ever done.” After facing some backlash from followers, she clarified her comments, tweeting: “All birth is extremely hard and transformative. Homebirth is a medical decision as is hospital birth, all birth is mind blowing & powerful. Using my experience to shame another’s isnt what i want. Power to anyone who brings life forth, it’s a next level journey whichever way.”

Before welcoming her second child, daughter Banks Violet, in 2018, Duff opened up about her decision to have a drug-free home birth following a hospital birth with her first. “I just started thinking that I wanted a different experience,” she explained. “I’m older now — I love motherhood more than anything. I never thought it could be this way. I never thought I could be so happy and so fulfilled.” “And I thought to myself that I want to get the full experience of what it is to bring a baby into the world and how incredible our bodies are,” Duff added. “My body gave me this incredible little boy and now I get to have this little girl and I want to experience it to the fullest.” With three midwives and an "amazing doula" helping her — plus boyfriend Matthew Koma, sister Haylie Duff and her dogs — Duff got her wish, and months later, shared photos of the emotional first meeting between herself and her daughter.

Like Duff, the former Lost actress had a medicated hospital birth with her first, daughter Vera, but wanted something different for her second. Of delivering son Theo "off the side of the bed" in late 2018, de Ravin said, “It felt like I was pushing for so long ... Him coming out was, apart from obvious pain, it was a really cool experience,” she recalled. “It was … the main part of why I didn’t want to ever be medicated if I [could] help it.” “It was so nice to be able to just feel what your body is doing and what it can do and going through it with him,” de Ravin added. “Just being able to have … the physical and emotional connection at the same time. As opposed to just looking in a mirror, like I was with [Vera].”

The wife of Midland guitarist Jess Carson opted to have her third baby at home in March 2019 (perhaps in part because of their son's super-fast arrival in 2017!). “Camille is the strongest woman I know,” Jess told PEOPLE. “She wanted to do a home birth and she did it 100 percent natural — I’m still just awestruck by her.”