Rumer Willis Shares Candid Details About Birth of Daughter Louetta

Apr 15, 2023

Rumer Willis is opening up about some of the most intimate details from the birth of her daughter, Louetta Isley Thomas Willis, whom she welcomed to the world less than two months ago.

Rumer, the eldest daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, gave birth to her baby girl with partner Derek Richard Thomas in an at-home water birth on April 18.

The new mom, 34, recently sat down for a two-part conversation on the Informed Pregnancy podcast, where she shared some candid details about her labor and delivery experience, including the breaking of her water, which apparently she got to do herself.

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After she "dilated from two to eight inches in about an hour," Rumer moved into the bathtub, where her doula noticed that her water still hadn't broken.

"She was checking me and felt my water bag bulging, but still not popping, which was wild," the actress recalled. "And so, I was like, 'Well, should we break it?'"

She continued, "She goes, 'Well, you can.' I'm like, 'What?' I was like, 'Are you serious?'"

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Rumer then decided to seize the opportunity and break her own water. "I reached my finger up there, and I'm feeling and it was crazy. I could totally feel this little bag— it feels like a water balloon, but with a bit tougher skin," she recounted.

"She just said, 'Okay. On the next contraction, just push against it with your finger,' and I popped it," Rumer continued. "I think there's a photo of me and I just have this look of shock and surprise on my face. Because it's a different sensation when the water bag is pushing against your cervix to when the baby's head is."

Rumer went on to explain the process of actually delivering her baby girl, which she said felt like it happened in the blink of an eye.

"It was like I pushed a little bit. Like, I pushed—well, I didn't push a little bit, I pushed harder than I've ever probably, but it was literally like I pushed, her head was out. I pushed again and her whole body was out," she shared. "There was no pause. There was no pause in between. It wasn't one of those moments where it was, 'Oh, your head is out."

"My midwife and my partner caught her," Rumer added. "It was the wildest thing. She had a cord wrapped around her neck, but it was also wrapped around her body in like almost like a prom sash. We had four hands under there, under the birth stool. I'm going, 'Give me the baby. Give the baby.'"

"But then, as soon as they untangled her, she was in my arms," the new mama remembered, calling her daughter's birth "the most ecstatic, joyful moment of my entire life."

"I just started sobbing with joy," she added. "I have some of the most beautiful photographs of it of just me looking at her, and looking at my sisters, and looking at my mom and my mom holding me."

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During the birthing process, Rumer was in the company of her partner, her mom, and her two sisters Scout LaRue Willis, 31, and Tallulah Willis, 29.

She further noted, "My sister actually told me something later that I didn't even realize I said. I looked at Louetta at one point, and I said, 'I missed you so much.' I thought that was so sweet because it truly was like this moment of, 'Oh, yes! We're back together.'"

"It's like, 'Oh, yes. This person who I've known and I've been waiting for forever, here you are,'" she concluded.

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