Louise Thompson, a former reality TV star, has revealed that she doesn’t believe she will give birth to her son Leo after her agonizing birth.
Louise Thompson, the Made in Chelsea star, has heartbreaking news that she will never have a child. Leo, the son of her and her fiance’s Ryan Libbey, was born in 2021 to the reality star turned influencer and campaigner, but he also went through life-threatening and life-altering complications.
Asherman’s Syndrome, where scar tissue accumulates in the uterus, causes pelvic pain, irregular periods, and possible infertility, are among the subsequent trauma and health issues. Since declaring she can’t carry and deliver a second child herself, Louise, 35, has called for better education and care for other women who have gone through similar experiences.
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Speaking to the Daily Mail, she said: “It’s something that a lot of people within my circle are talking about fairly regularly – the population problems we have. Thousands of women are crying out to me about this topic. Speaking on my own personal experience, I won’t be able to carry another child.”
Louise, who also experienced post-traumatic stress disorder after giving birth, is now a proponent of education and advocacy for high-quality maternity care.
After an emergency C-section, she lost three and a half liters of blood while giving birth, then suffered another terrifying hemorrhage at home, losing about five liters of blood before going back to the hospital.
She addressed the Birth Trauma All-Party Parliamentary Group (BPPPG), which was established this year, earlier this year, to raise awareness of the experiences of parents who have suffered physical and psychological harm as a result of childbirth.
Theo Clarke, a former tory MP who founded the APPG and chaired the first parliamentary inquiry into birth trauma in British history, has collaborated with Louise to discuss her experience and some of the changes she’d like to see in the health system as a result.
She said, “I do think a person who is going to have a long operation should be given the option to be put to sleep,” noting that she thought a lot of my trauma could have been prevented without seeing the operation while they were awake.
She also called for antenatal education to be more of a priority, and urged the NHS to look carefully at its staffing levels on weekends, when there may not be the appropriate skills around to help women in difficulties.
Louise, who first gained notoriety on Made in Chelsea in 2011, stated that despite her trauma, she was attempting to identify and retain some of the benefits of her experience.
“I suppose it completely put my life on on freeze, but then gave me an opportunity to rebuild it back in a slightly different way. And that’s one of the the benefits of going through something really really challenging is that it does make you see the world in a different way.”
Source: Mirror
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