Former Spice Girl Mel B has opened up about having a baby with a supportive partner who is willing to be involved.

The singer has two older children, Phoenix and Angel, from her first marriage to dancer Jimmy Gulzar and then relationship with actor Eddie Murphy, and she explained that both situations were less than desirable:

"Ideally you want to have your loving partner who you've created this baby with by your side throughout everything, and in Angel and Phoenix's cases, that wasn't the set up."

"I had a rocky marriage with Phoenix's dad. The relationship with Angel's dad, Eddie, was over halfway through the pregnancy, and I had to suck it up and get on with it."

She gave birth to baby Madison on September 1 and added to Hello! magazine that she finally feels as though she has done it right:

"This time I've done it with my partner - someone to come to every prenatal appointment with me, to get excited by every scan - and it feels like I've finally done it right. When I was moaning to Stephen about my trapped nerve I was thinking, 'I've never had anyone to complain to about these kinds of things."

"I'd just had to get on with everything on my own. I milked it because it was all new to me to have that kind of support."

Watch Mel B's interview on Chelsea Lately here: