'Bachelor' Alum Jade Roper Tolbert Says She Held The Baby In Until Paramedics Came During Closet Birth

If you think Bachelor in Paradise is dramatic one week in, consider what happens after the happy couples leave the beach. Case in point: Jade Roper Tolbert and Tanner Tolbert had a baby boy (their second child, after daughter Emerson) in their closet. Yep, she went into surprise labor at home and that was definitely not part of the plan.

Baby Brooks entered the world a little over a week ago, and Jade is ready to fill in all the details of what went down in her closet. She chatted with fellow Bachelor alum Carly Waddell on their podcast Mommies Tell All. Carly opens up the episode: "You've lived to tell the tale."

Jade laughs but calls Brooks's birth "one of the scariest in the moment. When it's unplanned it's scary." Carly, like all of Bachelor Nation, waited patiently for the big birth story reveal.

Jade jumped right into the play-by-play of her dramatic evening on their Mommies Tell All podcast. It all started around 9:15 p.m. when they were watching the Bachelorette finale (nobody wants to miss that!). Jade said she felt like her tailbone snapped. "I think he literally just went into my hips," she recalls. A few minutes later, her water broke and she started pacing. "I felt a shift and some pain," she shared. "More water just starts leaking on the floor."

Tanner captured this moment on camera, too. After timing contractions and checking in with the midwife, Jade decided to hop in the tub for a bath. She listened to her birth affirmation play list, but she says it only made her "pissed" so she got out. It was part of her "peaceful slow labor" birth plan, which is already going out the window.

My birth story episode is now up on the Mommies Tell All podcast! I sat down with Carly a couple days ago and opened up to her about the details of the night and how it exactly came to be that Brooks was born in our closet. *link in bio to listen or check out my stories* My biggest gratitudes to Tanner, my mom, my mother-in-law, Laguna Beach OBGYN and Midwifery, the nurses at Mission Hospital and of course the Orange County Fire Authority Paramedics who all helped me through this labor, delivery and recovery. A post shared by Jade Roper Tolbert (@jadelizroper) on Aug 9, 2019 at 8:38am PDT

By 9:30 pm she recalls feeling dizzy, sweaty, and hot. "In the bathroom buck naked, I look in the mirror and I see my face," she tells Carly. "My eyes look so distant. This is labor, I'm going into active, intense labor."

Tanner's mom, who was there the whole time, offered relaxing encouragement, which worked much better than the play list. "I was able to go into this space to forget the pain into this weird relaxing state," Jade explained. "I was able to mentally go somewhere else and hold the baby in." She added, "I have my hand over the baby's head." The paramedics arrived within five or six minutes, with not a moment to spare.

After two pushes, he came out. Carly audibly gasps on the Podcast. "He was already there and they were like you need to get the head out," Jade shared. "I was trying to do it gently, it felt like my vagina was on the ring of fire. It felt like my **** was gonna tear in half." Jade compares the sensation to when Jesus tears the curtain in half in the Bible.

I cant stop staring at his sweet face! Thank you to everyone for the outpour of love and support regarding our little man and his birth! Our hearts, hands and home are full and we are so grateful. We are all well, recovering and resting, and I am excited to figure out this new life as a family of four. (Also, an extra thank you to @avawomen for helping us conceive our little miracle and bringing this joy into our lives! ) A post shared by Jade Roper Tolbert (@jadelizroper) on Jul 31, 2019 at 11:45am PDT

As soon as he came out, Jade said she felt "So much shock, my whole body was shaking I was crying." "I'm listening and I don't hear him crying," she adds and gets emotional on the Podcast. "Is he breathing, is he okay?" Jade said he was fine, he just had a bit of fluid in his lungs due to the quick labor, but the paramedics helped.

Tanner still got to cut the cord, and changed the mood by singing R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet lyrics on repeat.

Watch Jade and Tanner's experience as first-time parents with daughter Emerson:

Jade said she went to the hospital with Brooks, and she was able to hold him with skin to skin contact in the ambulance on the way. "I wanted him to have a good breastfeeding journey with me," she explained. Once at the hospital, she gave birth to the placenta and after both mom and baby underwent tests, had more quality time as a family. "They let me hold him for the sacred hour, lights down low." Still, Jade admits: "I had a hard time processing and bonding with him at first. I was comparing how I felt with Emmy, it was immediate love. I don't feel that right now."

Jade also answered the burning question: Why didn't you just go to the hospital when your water broke? "We thought we had at least time to shower."

She didn't know she would experience "precipitous labor," which is defined as first contraction to birth in under three hours. It's rare. "It was insane," Jade says.

The new mom of two added a status update: "He is so chill. At least he threw me that bone after that labor," Jade shared. "I'm comin' in hot but I'll be chill after."