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Sienna Miller Achieves Vaginal Birth After Two C‑Sections and Scales Back Work

Her account spotlights use of the Gentle Birth Method, reliance on private at‑home postpartum care, the strain of returning to promotion too soon.

Overview

  • Miller, 44, gave birth to a son in May 2026 and says she achieved a natural vaginal labour despite two prior C‑sections after working with Dr Gowri Motha and the Gentle Birth Method.
  • She credited a private postpartum service called The Tenth with providing food, belly‑binding help, lactation and hands‑on care that she called “unbelievable, invaluable.”
  • About four and a half weeks after the birth she flew to New York for press including an appearance on The Tonight Show and later said the schedule was “complicated and hard,” prompting her to halve the remainder of her commitments.
  • Family members publicly defended Miller from online criticism of her post‑birth appearance, with her mother noting the toll of night‑time breastfeeding and new‑parent exhaustion.
  • Reporters framed Miller’s experience within wider issues: roughly one in three UK women report traumatic births and structured at‑home postpartum services are growing but remain limited in availability, a gap that her story may help highlight.