Home Birth in Vogue

April, 2010 Vogue cover model, Gisele Bündchen, talks to the magazine's Joan Juliet Buck about her recent home birth:

Benjamin was born at home, in warm water in a deep bathtub that overlooks the Charles River. "I wanted to experience the transformation," says Gisele. A midwife friend of hers came in from Brazil as did her mother; her husband was there too. Gisele meditated through the birth. "It was the most amazing experience of my life, feeling him come through my body. And once he was born, I never felt so empowered as looking at him and thinking, Oh, my God, we did it together!"

Photos by Patrick Demarchelier, via Vogue.com