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Mandy Moore says delivering her newborn son August was a “harrowing” experience.

The “This is Us” star detailed her son’s birth on Dr. Elliot Berlin’s “Informed Pregnancy” podcast this week, explaining she and husband Taylor Goldsmith planned for a home birth with a midwife, but had to pivot their plans and head to a hospital.

And while the 36-year-old “Candy” singer didn’t explain why the plan changed, she said she was “writhing around in pain” during the “awful” 40-minute car ride to the hospital.

By the time they got there, she recalled she was “moaning like an animal.” Unfortunately, due to her platelets dropping “exponentially” during labor, she was denied an epidural for the “intense” and “grueling” labor.

She described the labor pains as “diving into a wave” and admitted that all the classes and prep went out the window and instead she relied on “instinct.”

“It’s like you’re on this trip, you’re on this acid trip or something. I was in my own head, doing my own thing,” she explained. “But ultimately it was such an insular experience that I … which sounds silly that I guess I didn’t really imagine it.”

After three hours of labor the medical staff noticed that the baby’s heart rate was dropping, so a decision was quickly made to attach a vacuum to the top of the baby’s head.

“It all happened so quickly,” she said. “It was, one second everything was fine and then the next second it was like, this is happening. And literally, I pushed harder than I had. And it went from no baby to a full body out in seconds.”

Moore, who also revealed on the podcast that she’s eating her placenta, said “tore a lot” after labor.

“I didn’t know until he (doctor) started sewing me and you feel the little pinch of novocaine or whatever they were using to numb me,” she explained. “And then I realized, ‘Oh it’s been like 20 minutes and he’s still down there sewing away.’”

Nevertheless Moore says she “can’t wait to do it again.”

Moore welcomed August Harrison, who she and Goldsmith call Gus for short, in February.

“We were prepared to fall in love in all sorts of brand new ways, but it goes beyond anything we could have ever imagined,” she announced on social media at the time.

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