Caggie Dunlop Compares Childbirth to ‘Car Crash’ While Sharing Newborn Photos

Made In Chelsea’s Caggie Dunlop has likened the birth of her first child to ‘being in a car crash’ as she shared photos of her newborn daughter on Thursday. 

The reality TV star, 36, who appeared on the E4 show for three series before leaving in 2012, welcomed her first child with her mystery boyfriend, on June 2. 

Giving a candid insight into the birth, Caggie uploaded some black and white photos to Instagram and described it as ‘both horrific and magical.’

She wrote: ‘The first moment I held my daughter. Everything moves so fast. After nine slow months of pregnancy, labour arrives – and from that moment, it’s one initiation after another. 

‘The challenges come thick and fast. I underestimated what recovering from birth would be like.’ 

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Made In Chelsea’s Caggie Dunlop has likened the birth of her first child to ‘being in a car crash’ as she shared photos of her newborn daughter on Thursday

The reality TV star, 36, who appeared on the E4 show for three series before leaving in 2012, welcomed her first child with her mystery boyfriend, on June 2

Caggie continued: ‘Someone once described it as being in a car crash and then being handed the most precious thing imaginable to care for. And honestly… that feels pretty accurate. Motherhood is the ultimate paradox. So is birth.

‘But maybe that’s what it means to be a woman — not necessarily to become a mother, but to hold the complexities and multitudes within us. So much tender care…and yet, a wildness too. Pure, primal instinct. Deep, quiet strength. Intuition that roars.

‘Birth is both horrific and magical. It’s unimaginable what you go through. You might feel traumatised. And yet, if I were told I had to do it all again tomorrow for her — I would, in a heartbeat.

‘Birth showed me I could be stretched to the very edge, seconds from breaking. And yet, I didn’t break. I found a new depth. A new strength. A new edge.

‘I’m in awe of my friends who are mothers. Of every woman who, behind closed doors, walks this path.

‘How did I not know? It is not for the faint of heart. It is the work of warriors.

‘If you’re in the thick of it – the baby blues, the blurry early days – I’m sending you all the love I can. And a gentle reminder: just like every other phase you thought you wouldn’t survive, you will rise from this too.

‘Softer. Stronger. And with an even bigger heart. To birth a child, you contract. But you do so in order to expand. And the expansion is vast. Breathtaking. Sacred.’ 

Giving a candid insight into the birth, Caggie uploaded some black and white photos to Instagram and described it as ‘both horrific and magical’

She wrote: ‘The first moment I held my daughter. Everything moves so fast. After nine slow months of pregnancy, labour arrives – and from that moment, it’s one initiation after another’

Caggie has not named her boyfriend (pictured together)

Earlier this year Caggie announced her pregnancy news alongside a video documenting the first months of her ‘surreal’ pregnancy journey 

She concluded: ‘I’m doing my best to lean into rest and recovery — but I’ve been overly ambitious and set myself back once or twice. So this is also my reminder to myself: Go slow. Honour the sacredness of this time. The rest is not a pause. It’s part of the becoming.’ 

Earlier this year Caggie announced her pregnancy news alongside a video documenting the first months of her ‘surreal’ pregnancy journey, admitting she’s ‘in awe of her body and what women do and create.’ 

Caggie shot to fame on MIC when the show launched over ten years ago as she joined the likes of Spencer Matthews, Hugo Taylor and Millie Mackintosh in the original line up.

She had  kept her love life relatively under wraps since leaving Made In Chelsea but does share the rare loved-up snap with her current partner.

During her reality television days, Caggie’s will they/won’t they relationship with co-star Spencer – who is now married to Vogue Williams – was heavily documented.

In terms of her career Caggie launched her very own podcast, Saturn Returns, during lockdown.

On the podcast she chats to a plethora of experts on a whole range if subjects including sex and relationships, spirituality and diet culture.

She previously reflected on her time on Made In Chelsea with Tatler, saying: ‘Made in Chelsea gave me PTSD!’

‘I wanted to be a certain person in order to fit in… I was living for other people, or [being] what I thought I needed to be.

I wasn’t really paying much attention to who I really was. I concealed the more melancholic aspects of myself that would write poetry.’