Justin Bieber is reflecting on his wife Hailey Bieber’s childbirth experience nearly one year later.
“My emotions are heightened. I don’t want you to take away from my moment either as the dad,” Justin, 31, recalled of his delivery room conversation with Hailey’s midwife during a recent Twitch livestream. “Like, I got this too. There are times when I need to console Hailey, and I felt like she was pushing me to the side so that she could do it.”
He continued, “I have good instincts. It’s, like, instinctual to be a dad and to be there. [She was] supposed to be there to help facilitate where I don’t know.”
Justin and Hailey, 28, welcomed son Jack Blues in August 2024.
“Giving birth was the hardest thing I’ve ever done,” Hailey told Vogue in a May profile, revealing she spent her nine-month pregnancy preparing for childbirth. “I was on that s***. I was doing everything. I felt stronger physically than I ever had before.”
Hailey was ultimately induced at 39 weeks after she started leaking amniotic fluid.
“That s*** was so crazy. That was not fun,” she told the outlet of her 18-hour labor. “They broke my water. I went into labor and I labored for a few hours. No epidural, nothing.”
After Jack was safely delivered, Hailey suffered a postpartum hemorrhage.
“[It] was a little bit scary,” she recalled. “I trust my doctor with my life, and so I had peace that I knew she would never let anything happen to me. But I was bleeding really badly, and people die, and the thought crosses your mind.”
Hailey’s doctors eventually inserted a Jada device, a vacuum apparatus meant to provoke uterine contractions, to control the bleeding.
In the days after her delivery, Hailey and the Swag singer basked in their new life as a family of three.
“It’s total bliss for the two of them,” a source exclusively told Us Weekly at the time. “Hailey is enjoying and savoring these moments being a new mom. She is over the moon and in [the] mom zone, and completely focused on the health of the baby.”
According to the insider, Justin was equally “overjoyed” about welcoming their baby boy.
“[He is] very hands-on,” the source told Us. “A lot of things will change. He’s a dad now and will be a lot more private and protective and focused on the family first.”
Amid the highs of becoming parents, Hailey also admittedly struggled with her postpartum new normal.
“Every day I have to talk to myself, like, ‘Hailey, you had a baby,’” she told Vogue. “’You grew a human. You birthed a human. It’s OK. Give yourself grace. Give yourself time.’ When people talk about ‘bouncing back’ — back where, because my hips are wider, my boobs are actually bigger than they were before. They did not go back, and great, I’ll take it, but it’s not the same body that it was before.”
She continued, “You’re not the same person that you were before. You change head to toe. And I think there was a minute where I kept really hyper-fixating on getting back to what I was. And then I had to go through that acceptance of, ‘I’m not going back.’ So it’s really about, ‘How do I want to move forward? Who do I want to be?’”
