Sarah Jessica Parker Reveals Her Struggle to Conceive and Opens Up About Motherhood

April 14, 2010 by tiffanyb
Filed under: Celebrity Baby News

Sarah Jessica Parker is back as Carrie Bradshaw and in the latest issue of Vogue she reveals what it like as working mom as well as her struggle to conceive.

Parker, who welcomed twin girls last year via a surrogate opens up ans says, “[We] tried and tried and tried and tried and tried to get pregnant, but it just was not to be, the conventional way—I would give birth as often as I could, if I could. I cherished all the milestones, the good and the bad.”

When it came down to the day that her surrogate mother (who was in Ohio) unexpectedly went into labor, she says that her husband Matthew Broderick was out of town so it was up to her and her son, James Wilkie,6, to pack and get ready to meet the babies. She jokes and says, “And I came back into the room and saw James Wilkie combing his hair down in a certain way and standing in front of the mirror. And he doesn’t know that I heard him say, ‘I have to be handsome when I meet my sisters.’ It killed me.”

On her experience of meeting her girls for the first time she reveals, “Meeting your children rather than giving birth to them, it’s as if, um, it’s—suspended animation. The gestational experience is gone. It’s as if everything else disappears for a moment, and the world goes silent and—I can’t explain it except to say that nothing else existed. I don’t remember anything but the blanket on the bed that they were lying on and my husband’s face and their faces and my son’s. It’s literally as if sound is sucked from the room. Time stands still. It’s so different, and equally extraordinary. I am very poor at describing it. But it’s amazing.”

“I think the biggest thing is you can’t celebrate something that is potentially filled with joy, nor can you share fears and worries about every checkup, you know—the sixteen-week checkup, the amnio, the this, the that,” Parker says. ”The bone scan, the nuchal test. And the waiting is different, the whole nine months. We couldn’t talk about the fact that we were having children to anybody for soooo long. All the stuff that matters is secretive and worrisome. You can’t talk about how you feel about the woman who’s carrying your children; you can only talk about it to your husband And he just doesn’t want to talk about it as much as you do.”

Shortly after the twins were born Sarah Jessica had to start filming Sex and the City 2. She says, “I haven’t seen my daughters for almost two months, with the exception of Skype, and I have to tell you, I never felt like this. [James] Stayed here [London] ; he loved it. He also visited Morocco briefly, flying home without her (and filling in his own customs card on landing). But the twins were too young to get their H1N1 shots.”

Parker also revealed that the twins have their very own nicknames. “Tabitha Hodge (”or Babe”) and Marion Loretta Elwell (”or Kitty”). “Aren’t those great names? Babe Broderick! Kitty Broderick! It’s like it’s 1940. I wish it were 1940.”

When it comes to motherhood, it seems Sarah Jessica is just like any other mum. “I make my children’s food myself,” Sarah Jessica notes. “We put together their high chairs ourselves; we do a lot ourselves! We do our own grocery shopping, we go to the market ourselves, you know? I do my laundry.”