TW Mentions of miscarriage
Lottie Ryan opened up to VIP Magazine about her “traumatic” pregnancy recently.
She admits that she went through a lot of trauma during that time and she is “still processing it two years later”.
“Nobody had spoken about that stuff to me. I was scared and confused but I thought this was all normal.”
“That has put me off having another child,” she admitted to us.
Now on her podcast, Jen & Lottie Do.…Parenting she has confessed that she’s “pretty sure” she has PTSD from the pregnancy.
She explained: “I constantly thought I was losing him, constantly. And I was constantly in A&E. It was really, really tough to the point that I’m pretty sure I have some kind of PTSD from it.
“I’d heavily bleed constantly through the second trimester, which is very late in the pregnancy to be bleeding constantly.
“We knew I had a condition called bicornuate uterus which basically means your uterus is a heart shape. It means that point in the middle of the heart, it comes in three different stages. Depends how far down it goes.”
She went on to say: “Some people’s goes the full way down so their uterus is actually split in two. So, Wolf had a very small space to grow in. That’s why he came so early, because he was a bit squished. It was an emergency section because his head was up and he had no room to turn.”
“I now know that there was other stuff going on in my uterus but at the time, I just was constantly bleeding.”
She went on to say that she was almost certain that she had a miscarriage and went to the hospital “covered in blood” and holding “a lunchbox with an organ”.
“Without being graphic, I was passing things and going, ‘That’s my baby. That’s what’s happened now and I have to take this out of the toilet and go to A&E with it’,” she explained.
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“Thankfully, I went in that day and they were like, ‘No, you’re still pregnant’. Thank god. I was like, ‘What the hell is going on?’ and they said they’d have to do some proper testing when I had the baby but there wasn’t much they could do when I was pregnant.”
Lottie welcomed her baby boy, who was thankfully healthy.
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