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Montana Brown has confirmed she has given birth to her second child.
The former Love Island star, 29, who is already mother to 17-month-old Jude, has welcomed a baby girl with her fiancé Mark O’Connor.
Montana took to Instagram on Saturday and shared a photo of herself and Mark cradling their newborn who arrived early.
She wrote: ‘Look who decided to show up early. Bigger than expected and a bit of a rollercoaster.
‘We’re over the moon and taking it all in but just glad she’s healthy and happy.’
Montana revealed she planned to give birth to her baby at home despite being advised to have a C-section, she told fans earlier this month.
Montana Brown has confirmed she has given birth to her second child, a baby girl
The star was exploring giving birth privately after criticising her ‘inexperienced’ NHS midwives, who she claims ‘lacks training’.
Montana said she was advised by her NHS midwives to give birth in hospital but she has insisted she wants to follow her head and heart and stay at home.
Montana claims the reason her midwives aren’t advising a home birth is because they haven’t been trained to give birth to breech babies – and said that her private midwife is confident she will be able to give birth naturally, despite being breech.
In a TikTok video, she said: ‘So we are obviously nearing D-Day and she is still breech and for me, my mindset is on a home birth and It’s really hard to find people who are supportive of a home birth especially in my position of having a breech baby.
‘Which has been really really tricky because if you speak to midwives who are a little bit older and have had their training, they are quite confident at birthing breech babies because from what I’ve heard it’s just a different form of vaginal delivery.
‘Yes there are risks but as there are with any birth and there are certain things you look out for and certain positions that are better in order to make sure that the baby is delivered in a safe environment.
‘The hospital I am with, who have been incredibly supportive and have given me a lot of different options, are very against me giving birth at home and also if she continues to stay in the same positions that she has been which is footling breech, they have completely advised me to not give birth vaginally and have given me the option to book in for an elliptical [C-section].
‘But a lot of the midwives that have been trained a lot more and have a lot of experience in delivery vaginal breach birth are not concerned about me giving birth at home so yeah there is a lot of conflict.’
She added: ‘A lot of midwives at the hospital have never delivered a vaginal breech birth which is obviously concerning for me.
‘But I can completely see that the hospital are cautious about me giving birth vaginally and on the birth centre if I don’t have an experienced time without me, so we are now diving into the private midwife route.
‘And I spoke to two amazing private midwives and they both feel really confident delivery breech babies.
‘My partner and my mum are a bit like “Can we just go to hospital, it seems safer” and my instincts and my heart is just worried that I am going to get pigeon holed to make decisions on the day when I am trying to remain really focused.
