Reality star reveals baby’s adorable name after ‘brutal and overwhelming’ first week as a mum
REALITY star Caggie Dunlop has revealed the name of her newborn daughter after becoming a mum for the first time.
But the Made In Chelsea OG has also been frank with fans about her first week of motherhood, describing it as “brutal”.
Caggie, 35, has admitted there has been plenty of tears after her birth to her daughter did not go according to plan.
She also confirmed she and her boyfriend, whose name she is yet to share, have decided to call their daughter Lola Violet Liddell.
Caggie had to stay in hospital for two days following Lola’s birth and said she found life tough once they had returned home.
Thankfully, the honest new mum has admitted things have started to improve.
Caggie made her candid admission alongside a sweet photograph of herself and her boyfriend as they left hospital with Lola Violet.
She described their baby girl as “tiny, but oh so mighty”.
Caggie wrote: “It’s been a tender few days of sleepless nights and deep healing – physically, emotionally, psychologically.
“Tears of overwhelming joy and love but also of exhaustion.
“The hormone crash alone is enough to floor you, but then there’s the spiritual expansion that is so great it takes your breath away.
“In these first moments of motherhood, I’ve struggled to find words that truly capture it — but the one I come back to most is otherworldly.”
Crediting her team of midwives, Caggie continued: “My birth didn’t go the way I’d planned but I believe I had the birth I was meant to have.
“I was called to face my deepest fears – and divinely, I was graced with the most incredible midwives who held me through every moment.
“They made me feel safe, I trusted them. I could cry just thinking about them now as they were real life angels that made would could have been a gruelling birth experience into an overall positive one.
“This love is an all consuming and debilitating kind that brings you to your knees. I close my eyes and see her, I dream of her. I have nightmares of worry and confusion thinking I’ve lost her or imagined her.
“I wake moments before she stirs to feed or cry. I’m not quite sure what I’ve become, but I know I’m not the same.
“I think with the anxiety comes instinct, and the former gets a little less sharp and spikey each day.”
Caggie described the feeling of leaving hospital as “surreal and dreamlike”.
She has called the first five days of motherhood as “brutal”, but added: “I feel like she is settling now which allows me to sleep more than 1 hour in a row!
“And the cuddles are just the greatest thing. Trying to soak it all in, go easy on myself and remain in our new born bubble, I know it won’t last forever.”
Caggie is a Made In Chelsea OG and starred in the E4 show for three series.
She and her boyfriend discovered they were expecting their first child together in September but held off until February to announce their happy news.
Caggie confirmed she had given birth earlier this week alongside some photographs that were taken during her pregnancy.
“The initiation into motherhood has been unlike anything I could have imagined,” she admitted at the time.
“I’m just trying to keep my head above water. I’ll share more in the coming days, but for now, we’re deep in the ‘newborn trenches,’ as they say.”