Chloe Madeley had to have an emergency Caesarean section during childbirth.
Chloe Madeley reveals she had an emergency C-Section
The 35-year-old star – who is the daughter of former 'This Morning' presenters Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan - welcomed baby girl Bodhi with her husband James Haskell, 37, at the end of August but the pair admitted that the birth "didn’t go to plan" at all.
She said: “Like many women can relate to, my birth did not go to plan whatsoever. I really didn’t want to be induced but I always maintained throughout my pregnancy that whatever needs to happen would happen – all I cared about was my baby. They said the contractions would be no different but it happens faster and quicker with the drip, which means you don’t have a moment to catch your breath in between, so they advised me to have the epidural
The former ‘Dancing on Ice’ contestant went on to explain that her daughter's "heart rate had plummeted" and the obstetrician insisted on performing a C-section when her labour had "struggled to progress" despite the epidural.
She added: “I was in and out all night, I would say every time they tried to up the hormone drip to try to push me into transitional labour, to the point where I’d have to push, her heart rate plummeted and all the alarms started going off, and all the midwives ran in.
“I felt really protected by the midwives but it was really scary. Then at 8am the obstetrician came in and said. ‘I’m so sorry, it hasn’t worked, we’re going to have to do an emergency C-section and we should do it now’ because at that point her heart rate had gone from sporadically dropping and picking back up to just progressively dropping, and she said, ‘I’m not comfortable and I want to get her out’.”
Former rugby union player James - who tied the knot with Chloe in 2018 - admitted to freaking out internally but wanted to remain strong for his wife.
He said: “I didn’t know how much longer Chloe was going to be able to deal with it, or our baby. So when she went into theatre it was some relief, because whilst it was an emergency it was under control. My job was to support Chloe and I just held her head during surgery and tried to keep things light.”
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