Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake are among the many parents who come up with a detailed birthing plan, only to find it fall apart when it comes to the big day itself.

 

The couple, who are parents to nearly three-year-old Silas, revealed how difficult labour was for Jessica in a book by 'Nanny to the Stars' Connie Simpson, Entertainment Tonight reports.

 

"Our story with Nanny Connie started the day we brought our son home from the hospital," Jessica wrote in an excerpt from The Nannie Connie Way: Secrets to Mastering the First Four Months of Parenthood.

 

"That may sound like a normal statement coming from new parents, except our birth plan was anything but normal." 

 

 

The mum-of-one explained that they had 'two midwives, one doula, one meditation birthing class, a ton of hippie baby books, and a lovely home in the Hollywood Hills that we had turned into a labour training facility that we called The Octagon'.

 

"So, not exactly normal," the 36-year-old joked.

 

Jessica's ideal labour wouldn't have involved a hospital at all. However, Silas ended up having to be delivered via an emergency caesarean.

 

"When all our plans fell apart and the serene, natural childbirth we had envisioned ended with a transfer to the hospital and an emergency C-section, we arrived home exhausted, disillusioned, and totally in shock."

 

 

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"I was obsessed with everything organic, toxin-free, natural, and homoeopathic for our kid, who came into this world in an operating room through an incision," the actress confessed, "I was a dictator, making myself and my husband insane!"

 

And that's where nanny Connie came in! She helped the first-time parents adjust to their exciting new lives, in which things don't always go as planned.

 

We're happy everything worked out for Jessica and Justin in the end.

 

Deviating from our well-laid plans can be scary, but it's less so when we have supportive people by our side.

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