Taye Diggs Says Wife Idina Was A "Warrior" During Natural Childbirth

"Warrior" seems like a fitting description for a woman who gives birth with nothing for pain! Taye Diggs described the day his son was born while visiting the 'Ellen DeGeneres Show' (it'll air today).

"There was something going on that morning, so we knew this is going to be a special day," he says in an interview on the Ellen DeGeneres Show (airing Thursday). "She said, 'Go off to work, and if I need you, I will call you.'" So I went off to work. I got that call.

"In the movies and on TV, you always hear everyone's rushing, but everyone is telling me when it actually happens, there is no need to rush. There is no need to speed," Diggs, 38, continues. "So on the way home, I was constantly telling myself, 'Relax, relax, be cool.'"

Taye told Ellen he'd planned to stay right by Idina's side with the midwife, but he had a change of heart once he saw her in pain.

But as he watched Menzel's face when the first pain hit, Diggs says, "I was like, "OK, I'm just going to be in this other room....'"

And Idina never opted for anything for the pain.

"No drugs," Diggs says. "She is a warrior."

Once it was time for the delivery (after seven or eight hours of labor- not too bad!), Taye got back into the action.

"I was holding her hands and cheering her on," he says. "I said I would look two times. I would look when the baby was crowning, and I wanted to look right when [son] Walker came out. And then when he came out, all the sudden it was like my inner gangster came out. I was like, 'Yeah baby, that's what I'm talkin' about, that's my boy!'

"It was crazy," Diggs says of his son's birth. "I couldn't control myself. It was like the Super Bowl, World Series, World Cup, everything wrapped up into one."

LOL! Walker was born on September 2.

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