Kiwi celebrity chef Nadia Lim has opened up about the "impromptu but wonderful home birth" of her second child.
Ms Lim welcomed River at home last month but admits that it wasn't the intended strategy, with plans in place to give birth at the nearby Birthcare.
However, Ms Lim told Woman's Day that after her contractions began to intensify, "intuition told me to stay at home".
She added she gave birth on top of a pile of towels and a plastic backpack liner which her husband Carlos Bagrie spread across their bedroom floor.
"All I can say is thank goodness for Carlos' back pack liner or the carpet would have been a write-off!" she wrote in a Facebook post following the birth.
Ms Lim told Stuff River was delivered in the "exact spot he was made".
"He just threw it down on the floor and chucked a pile of towels on top, and before we knew it, the baby popped out."
Ms Lim advised others who were afraid of a home birth that there are some comforts you can't replace.
"It felt so relaxed and natural to be at home," she told Woman's Day.
"It was lovely to wake up the next morning in our own bed and with our little boy next to us."
Ms Lim and her husband now have two sons - River and two-year-old Bodhi.
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