Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I'd literally just released my second album.

So when I was doing my first and second single from my second album, I remember being on top of the pops and thinking, I know I'm pregnant.

I'm seven weeks and no one else knows.

And I was thinking, this is...

This is a bit wild, actually.

But in amongst all the drama and the fallout and all the different shifts that were going on with my work and my home life and getting to know Richard as my boyfriend, something about having Sonny felt really right.

And, I mean, Richard only moved in two weeks before Sonny was born.

Wow.

Again, not knowing it would be that soon before, but it was like, oh, our baby's coming up in a couple of months.

We should probably start living together.

But my mum right at the beginning said it might not be the right time and it might not be the right man, but it's the right baby.

And I think for both of us, it gave us permission to look forward to having a baby because we both decided that was something we were happy to do together.

But then also try and...

have our relationship follow a slightly more traditional route, even though we knew we were having a baby.

So we would still go on dates.

We would still sort of let things unfold.

We just had this sort of slightly, well, it felt to us comedic element.

But yeah, with Sonny, I just couldn't wait to bring him home.

I think when he came home and there's, I think the wobbly bit about the prematurity is firstly,

It's a very medicalised way to start a new family.