“They really stress you out,” she said, remembering that the doctors were “just all around you, looking at you, and you’re like a wounded animal on the table.”

But despite the complications surrounding Arlo’s birth, Allison wouldn’t trade the experience for the world.

“He is adorable, I’m very proud,” she told Savannah Guthrie of her son during a January 2023 episode of Today. “I get weird and shy when I talk about it because it’s so new. But I’m obsessed with him. It’s all I think about.”

And upon becoming a mother, every aspect of her life changed.

“I had some friends who were like, ‘Most of the things stayed the same, a couple of things about my routine shifted,'” she recalled. “And as it was happening, I was like, ‘Everything is unrecognizable to me now. It’s all different.'”

She added, “I don’t know how people do it any other way.”

For more stars that have shared insight into their own journeys to parenthood, keep reading.