Charlotte Church has revealed that she welcomed her third child in her back garden under a tree.

The singer created her own "birth palace" under one of the trees in her garden where she gave birth to her daughter Freda.

However, the 35 year old admitted that she was "overconfident" about her third labour but she was quickly "b***h slapped in the face," as she struggled through the pain while she gave birth in the rain.

Charlotte went onto say that parenting is "unbelievably difficult" but she views it as "the pinnacle of her existence," as it has helped her to be "calmer" and to "know herself better".

Charlotte spoke on Rob Beckett's and Josh Widdicombe's Parenting Hell podcast, where she gave an insight into the birth of daughter Freda, who she welcomed in August 2020 with her husband Jonathan Powell.

She said: "I did love birth, but my third birth came and b***h slapped me in the face. I was so unbelievably overconfident, because the first two times, I was 21 and 22, and my body knew just what to do.

"I had two home births, they were quite simple. Don't get me wrong it is still birth. It's still incredibly intense and all the rest of it.

"But it was like.. the third time around. I have become a nature lover, tree hugger, or quite a deep hippy in the interim of having my first two and little baby Freda.

"So I set this birth palace outside basically among the trees. I dried flowers, it was so involved. It looked like a Baz Luhrmann set, I had candles everywhere."

She added: "It started drizzling at about 7am, and I live next to a golf course. And I started to really hear the golfers.

"My noise… I am a noisy woman anyway but if I'm in any sort of pain. My noise started to up, I thought: ''This is not going to work.' There I was birthing in the trees."

Back in March 2020, Charlotte announced she was pregnant to fans in a low-key tweet saying she was pulling out of a charity concert because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Charlotte said the new addiction "connected" her family.

The star said: "It was getting to the point before when the little ones start the process of adolescence so they start to grow away from you a bit but actually she has really connected us all and made every one a bit softer and a bit gentler."

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