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Nara Smith shared the birth story of her fourth child, daughter Fawnie Golden, on Nov. 4
The influencer welcomed Fawnie with husband Lucky Blue Smith in September
The couple shares three other children: daughters Rumble Honey, 5, and Whimsy Lou, 18 months, and son Slim Easy, 3
Nara Smith is opening up about her birth story.
The influencer, 24, shared a candid Instagram post recounting the events that led up to the birth of her fourth baby, daughter Fawnie Golden, with husband Lucky Blue Smith on Tuesday, Nov. 4. The story, which she shared in the caption of a montage of the newly minted family of six, comes a month after the couple announced the latest addition.
“Birth story🦌,” Nara began the post, which she also prefaced by explaining why it has taken weeks for her to open up about it. “Putting my birth story into words has taken me over a month,” she wrote. “Not because birth was traumatic or scary but because it hasn’t felt like I ever made it back into my body after to write it all down.”
Nara said she and Lucky, 27, had moved into a new house “and started making it a home,” just a couple of weeks before welcoming their new addition, she said.
“In between moving boxes, empty clothing hangers and making simple meals I wasn’t fully grasping that I could be giving birth any day,” the mom of four wrote. “When I hit 37 weeks I felt that shift. Instead of pushing all thoughts and worries about this big change aside I welcomed them, embraced them.”
Two days before Nara went into labor, she was 2 centimeters dilated. “Knowing how tired my body was,” Nara said, she asked her midwife “to do a membrane sweep in the hopes that it would move things along.”
Due to the “prodromal labor” she experienced with daughter Whimsy Lou, whom she welcomed in April 2024, Nara wrote, “I didn’t have high hopes of going into labor that same night. So, as the sun set and we started unwinding I bathed in the feeling of knowing that she would let me know when she was ready.”
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Nara Smith with baby daughter Fawnie Golden
While running errands on Sept. 26, the night before her birthday, Nara said she felt an “intense” Braxton-Hicks contraction, uncomfortable contractions that “are the body’s way of preparing for true labor, but they do not indicate that labor has begun,” according to the National Library of Medicine.
“Intuitively I knew I was going into labor but didn’t want to fully acknowledge it,” the mom of four wrote. “I started timing them and slowly made my way home. The drive back to the house felt like hours and with every deep breath I took, I felt realization washing over me.”
“When I made it home I didn’t want to have Lucky worry or get excited about us having a baby that night and surely I wouldn’t have her on my birthday, right?” she continued. “So I made us dinner, we ate and every time I felt a contraction I breathed through it. When Lucky came back downstairs after tucking the kids in bed I told him that my contractions were picking up in intensity.”
Seeing “how tense” she was, Nara recalled, her husband “grabbed my hand and ran me a shower.” “Unlike my previous two labors,” however, “the contractions kept rolling in gradually and in between I had the clarity to get myself ready for bed since I didn’t think she’d make her arrival,” she recalled.
At 10:30 p.m. that evening, things kicked up a notch. Nara’s “contractions started to shift into feeling the urge to push,” she wrote. Then, she dropped to her knees by the couple’s bed, and “Lucky knew it was time to call the midwife.”
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Nara Smith with daughter Fawnie Golden
Nara received lots of support after sharing her story. “Beyond special and so beautiful 🥹🤍,” wrote fellow influencer Avery Woods.
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Nara and Lucky, who wed in February 2020, first announced that they had welcomed their fourth baby in a home birth on Oct. 11.
Sharing the news in a joint Instagram post, the couple wrote in their caption, “She’s here! Welcome to the world little angel 🤍.” They did not reveal the child’s name, birthday or any other details.
The couple shares three other children: daughters Rumble Honey, 5, and Whimsy Lou, 18 months, and son Slim Easy, 3. Lucky was already a father to his daughter, Gravity, whom he shares with model Stormi Bree.
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