Former AFLW star Moana Hope reveals incredible details of model wife’s natural birth

Former football player Moana Hope has revealed an incredible detail of her model wife’s “superhero” natural birth.

AFLW great Moana Hope has revealed model wife Isabella Carlstrom was a “superhero” during a 14-hour labour where she went without any form of pain relief.

The gushing couple this week revealed the name of their first child following a series of Instagram messages about the birthing experience they had with daughter Svea.

Hope revealed the incredible details of Carlstrom’s labour on Instagram on Thursday night alongside the first public image of her wife holding their precious baby.

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“I’ve been in love with this woman since the day I met her,” Hope wrote in a heartfelt message.

“My love for her is one that I didn’t think could get any stronger, and then you gave birth to our child.

“First, let me tell you giving birth is the most amazing, and most beautiful thing a human can do.

“It’s also the most exhausting, painful and scariest thing a human can do.

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Isabella Carlstrom with baby Svea Hope Carlstrom

“Mostly scary for me watching the love of my life in pain and feeling helpless.

“Watching her push through 14 hours of labour was the hardest yet most inspiring thing I’ve ever seen.

“She made me feel like I could do anything, yet she was the one giving birth.

“Giving birth is not looked at or appreciated the way it should be. Women who give birth should be looked at like superhero’s. Bell was our superhero, she did so amazing and I’m beyond proud of her.

“She wanted to attempt a natural birth (no pain relief) and she did it. @isabellasofiacarlstrom you are a rockstar, and Svea already has such a strong, beautiful and resilient Mumma to look up to.

Moana Hope and model wife Isabella Carlstrom.

“Thank you for bringing our Queen into this world. How the heck do you look this beautiful after giving birth.

“I would look a mess if I did what you did. I love you forever. Both of you.”

The pair, who were married last year, had been sharing their excitement about becoming parents in recent months.

“I’m grateful for the baby I’m about to bring into this world and grateful for the person I’m about to do that with,” Carlstrom recently wrote on Instagram.

“Spending the last nine months in lockdown with you has been truly special. Yes it was difficult but I’ve never felt more connected to you in my whole life.”

Hope has also addressed their plans to parent as a same-sex couple.

Moana Hope and model wife Isabella Carlstrom's first baby photo on social media.

“Who is going to be the Dad? We get questions like that often,” she wrote in September.

“My personal opinion on what makes a parent … it’s not the gender, or who makes the money or who’s name it is on the birth certificate.

“It’s someone who loves, protects, and cares for their child. Someone who will never hurt their child. And someone who shows up for their family for the good and challenging times.

“Our baby is going to have 2 loving Parents and those parents happen to be Mums.

“BOTH of us will love our baby, we will work hard to always put food on the table, we both will make sacrifices for our baby.

“We will be a partnership, and we will work together to raise our baby the best we know how.”