Made In Chelsea original Caggie Dunlop reveals the name of her baby girl as she shares first family photo after 'brutal and overwhelming' week with her newborn
The reality TV star, 36, who appeared on the E4 show for three series before leaving in 2012, revealed on Monday that she had welcomed her first child with her boyfriend Tom Liddell, who she tagged and identified for the first time.
In a new post on Thursday, Caggie shared a photo of the proud parents leaving Chelsea and Westminster hospital with their baby girl as she gushed: 'Our little family.'
Announcing her daughter's name, Caggie added: 'Lola Violet Liddell came into our lives last week- she's tiny, but oh so mighty.'
'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.'
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The lengthy caption also revealed that Caggie's 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.'
She continued that she is working through her anxiety and that 'with the anxiety comes instinct, and the former gets a little less sharp and spikey each day.'
'Someone offered to take a picture of us leaving the hospital and I'm so glad they did as it's a moment I'll never forget,' she added of the family snap.
'I had been there for 2 days and leaving felt like walking through a portal from another realm, a place I had to go to collect her. It was surreal, dreamlike and unlike anything I could ever of imagined.'
'The First 5 days were really brutal but 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.♥️ sending love from us all xxx'
Taking to Instagram on Monday, she shared a gallery of pictures of herself while still heavily pregnant and penned: 'These were the last pictures taken of me pregnant.
'I gave birth to our baby girl on Wednesday morning, Our hearts are exploding with love ♥️. And I'm completely overwhelmed by the tiredness.
She continued: 'I already miss her being in my belly—the safety, the unity. It's been replaced with a constant undercurrent of worry and anxiety.
'I remember someone once described this part as 'your heart now living outside your chest'—and I'm learning what that really means.'
Earlier this year Caggie announced her pregnancy news alongside a video documenting the first months of her 'surreal' pregnancy journey, admitting she's 'in awe of her body and what women do and create.'
Caggie shot to fame on MIC when the show launched over ten years ago as she joined the likes of Spencer Matthews, Hugo Taylor and Millie Mackintosh in the original line up.
She had kept her love life relatively under wraps since leaving Made In Chelsea but does share the rare loved-up snap with her current partner.
During her reality television days, Caggie's will they/won't they relationship with co-star Spencer - who is now married to Vogue Williams - was heavily documented.
In terms of her career Caggie launched her very own podcast, Saturn Returns, during lockdown.
On the podcast she chats to a plethora of experts on a whole range if subjects including sex and relationships, spirituality and diet culture.
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