The Pimped Out Pic Of Levi

New dad Matthew McConaughey details the labor and delivery of baby Levi in a way that sounds pure McConaughey. For starters, he tells Ok! that he and Camila Alves “danced, sweated, hummed, laughed and cried” through it all, adding proudly, “We were a real team.” Here’s what happened:

On July 5, Camila’s water broke. They wound up going to the hospital “59½ hours before the birth, but who’s counting,” he says. “Contractions started kicking in, and we found a great rhythm. We had a 14-hour session, her and I did. I sat there with her, right between her legs. We got tribal on it. We danced to it. I was DJing this native Brazilian music.”

Camila: “For 14 hours.”

Matthew: “We were jamming! She was sweating. No painkiller, let’s go. She just clicked into that gear that only a woman has at a time like this. We’d been up for 40-something hours, and we went from dead tired to a really steadfast, ‘Let’s handle this… let’s stay in the rhythm. Don’t let the contraction be more than you.’

Finally, says Matthew, “… the doctor said, “C-section. … He came out with the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck, so it was the right thing to do. Of course, if we’d known this was how it was going to go, we could have gotten it done in the first three hours. We laughed, but that was Mother Nature and the baby saying, “Thank goodness for Western medicine.”

Faded Youth