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Naomi Opens Up on Motherhood

September 10, 2007 at 2:32 pm

Naomi Watts in currently in Toronto promoting her new film *Eastern Promises*, however, she has shared some details on her most important role as mum to 6 week old Alexander Pete.




In her new film, Watts plays a midwife and it was while researching pregnancy and child-birth that she discovered she herself was pregnant!

"It was really interesting timing actually, I didn't know I was pregnant until...I had been in London about two weeks when I found out. I was doing all this research of midwifery and turning up at hospitals watching live births, and thinking, 'Oh my God. This is going to be a hard thing for me if I ever get there.'

And there I was, pregnant all that time! It was just funny because I had been reading these books and then suddenly I was hiding them because I didn't want anyone to know I was pregnant. [laughs]

There were a lot of night shoots, and I didn't feel all that well, and my mind was filled with all these different thoughts about the fact that I was going to be a mother," she says."

Naomi also weighed in on the effects the changes of her body, lack of sleep, and breastfeeding have had on her. She also discloses how she will learn to balance motherhood and her career.

"My belly is empty, but it still hasn't gone away," jokes Watts about her tummy where six-week-old son, Alexander Pete, once resided. The couple have nicknamed the tot "Sasha" to pay tribute to his Ukranian heritage.

"There's no question I'm not as present as I would normally be right now," she says as she relaxes into a couch after having just fed the baby. "But I am here."

"I want to be a good mum. I'm not quite sure exactly what [that statement] means to me. But I've got friends who have given up everything to be there for their family, but I've always wondered, are they at peace with themselves? I think balancing career and family is just one of those things you have to work out as you go along. I think it's important to keep growing as a human being and to take care of your own needs as well as your family's but I don't know if you should abandon your own life for your child's. I love my work, and if it were just a job to me, I'd be happy to leave it behind. But it's not."

Watts heads back to work in November and is already planning on how she'll need to make adjustments to fulfill Alexander's needs.

"It won't be easy because I'm breastfeeding," she says. "But I'm committed to my work. I love it. It keeps me alive. Besides, I feel if I'm feeding myself creatively, I'm also feeding my child in a creative way."

Despite her desire to stay a working mother, she wants to focus on her primarily role as a mom.

"I think Sasha is going to help me find greater meaning in just about everything I do. I'm really just beginning to get a handle on it mentally, because the whole birth thing is such a physical and dramatic experience. You're so in your body that it's almost an out-of-body experience," she says.

"I keep replaying the birth in my mind because it was so powerful. There's a little tiny creature in that room next door, and I'm still getting used to that. Last year at this time, he was just an idea. Now he's a reality."

Although she's not stopping, she admits that she'll probably do fewer movies and balance the schedule with partner Schreiber.

"I think the two of us can keep working, but always with the idea of being together as much as possible as a family. But in the end, I think there is no right way. You have to figure out what's right for you as you go along," she says. "At least, at this point in my career, I take comfort in the fact that I feel I have nothing left to prove."





Sources: celebrity-babies.com & celebrity-moms.blogspot.com



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