Iman Shumpert and Tiyana Taylor Can’t Stop Having Kids In The Bathtub
Teyana Taylor and husband Iman Shumpert have welcomed a second child born in their bathroom without the assistance of a hospital.
The singer and the basketball player made headlines in 2015 when their first daughter, Iman Tayla Shumpert Jr., who is called "Junie," made a surprise entrance into the world in the couple's home bathroom with her proud dad delivering her.
Appropriately enough on Labor Day, Shumpert posted on his verified Instagram account that "At 3:28 am on Sept 6th 2020 Rue Rose decided that the baby shower thrown for her and mommy was too lit."
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Congratulations are in order But Iman Schumpert And Tiyana Taylor don’t appear to understand the timing of labor. By all accounts mom and the baby are healthy- and a hearty mazel tov goes out to Iman and Tiyana. I’m going to come off as somebody who’s trying to stir the pot here, and I’m not. I’m not trying to rain on anybody’s parade. I’m just trying to pull on some threads and get some facts straight.
At this point, this has happened twice. We’re at two times a baby has been born in the bathtub, and we’re at two times where it doesn’t seem like it was planned. Where am I getting that? Well I did a little digging:
He shoots, he so scores! Cleveland Cavaliers shooting and point guard Iman Shumpert delivered his own daughter at home Wednesday, and even tied off her umbilical cord...with a pair of headphones!
"On Dec 16th at 6:42am in our bathroom Junie decided she wanted to take her first breath into this world. She came out as a wonderful surprise to everyone! Not knowing I was in labor until I felt her head...it took two ten count pushes with my fiancé playing Dr and she entered this world into his bare hands!" Shumpert's fiancé Teyana Taylor wrote on Instagram, captioning the first photo of the baby.
If we’re tying umbilical cords with the last pair of samsung headphones we got at the airport, we didn’t plan this. Thank god that kid was born in 2015! AirPods are good for a lot of things, tying umbilical cords is not one of them. But keeping in mind that now we’ve had two accidental home births… are we just making game time decisions to skip the hospital? Because either you’re choosing not to go, or the baby’s head is legitimately popping out and you’ve missed the buildup. If the latter is the case, you’re waiting too long to go the hospital. Whatever your study habits were, you’ve missed a fundamental piece of Labor 101. I’ve never had a kid. I’ll never go through labor. I’ll never presume to know what it takes. But I will say that maybe a refresher wouldn’t hurt! You know, maybe these folks are just forgetting to carry the 1.
Regardless of whether there’s a fundamental misunderstanding about when the baby comes, I’ve got to give them credit where it’s due.
The fact that these two had a baby in a bathtub, and tied the cord with headphones, AND THEN DIDN’T MAKE SURE IT NEVER HAPPENED AGAIN- just shows an incredible amount of confidence. I can’t fathom it. I’m terrified of handling a baby horse, let alone a child. What kind of coward does that make me, scared of horse baby. If I’m tying off any umbilical cords for my children, your children, or any child for that matter, I’m going to need to take some time. If you need me, I’ll be a monk, or a rancher, or one of those guys that lives on the beach. I don’t know what I’ll do, but I do know that I won’t let it happen twice.
I just feel like we can congratulate and applaud and do all the things we do normally would do, but if you’re a close friend you’ve got to check-in, right? You’ve just got to make sure that a page from the birthing packet didn’t get stuck in the copier. How’s that saying go? “Once is an accident. Twice is a coincidence. Thrice is a pattern.” I think we can cut one off that whole process, “Once is an accident, twice is a pattern.” Come on now, this is having a kid, not shitting your pants after eating Dim Sum.
