Gemma Atkinson says she is able to have a second child after a “traumatic” first beginning.
The previous Hollyoaks actor mentioned she was so traumatised by the beginning of her daughter Mia, 2, that she had nightmares that left her “screaming”.
When Atkinson gave beginning to Mia in 2019, she wanted an emergency c-section and suffered a haemorrhage after the beginning, dropping almost a litre of blood.
Following the expertise she mentioned she was “adamant” that she and her associate, Strictly Come Dancing skilled, Gorka Marquez, wouldn’t need one other baby.
“All this stuff had been going by way of my thoughts, what did I do this prompted all that to occur? I used to be telling myself for weeks and weeks I’d failed at childbirth,” the 37-year-old informed Channel 4’s Steph’s Packed Lunch.
“I used to be having horrible goals that somebody was going to take Mia from me. I bear in mind my mum working into my bed room and I used to be sat up screaming, sweating.”
Atkinson added {that a} girl approached her and her mum when she was out with Mia sooner or later and mentioned: “Oh I consider it (the beginning) wasn’t successful was it, you recognize, what occurred?”
Atkinson’s mum replied: “It was an enormous success, Mia’s there, Gemma’s right here, complete success.”
“One thing clicked in me then,” Atkinson mentioned of the change. “My physique had carried out me proud as a result of it had recovered and bought me by way of.
“I’m on the stage the place I need a sister or hassle for Mia. The primary few months of Mia’s life, I saved saying to my associate, Gorka, ‘I’m not going by way of that once more’. I’ve now come of it and I really feel I might.”
In line with the Start Trauma Affiliation (BTA), round 30,000 girls per 12 months expertise beginning trauma within the UK.
“A traumatic beginning can result in signs of PTSD: flashbacks, a way of heightened anxiousness, consistently feeling on the alert, avoiding something that reminds you of the trauma,” BTA states on its web site.
Atkinson mentioned she met with a psychotherapist to be taught extra about beginning trauma and the way girls will be helped by way of it.
“It was surprisingly comforting talking to the ladies, it makes you are feeling such as you’re not by yourself, you’re not the one one that had a troublesome labour,” she continued.
“If anybody wants assist, please ask for it since you need to be the happiest, healthiest guardian.”
Extra reporting by PA.
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