Louise Thompson has revealed the trauma she endured over the past few years which culminated in an agonising labour after it was found that her son's head was stuck in her pelvis, which meant he was born by an emergency caesarean after she had suffered a miscarriage in 2020.
The former Made In Chelsea star lost three-and-a-half litres of blood, more than three quarters of the volume in a body, when medics failed to stop a haemorrhage for more than three hours. The fitness influencer later was told that her womb had torn, which had caused the bleeding.
Speaking to MailOnline, Louise described the moment that she first heard her son after a difficult birth. She said: "I heard a cry as Leo came out, but I didn’t care that I had a child. I genuinely believed every second I was bleeding to death. I kept turning to [my fiancé] Ryan [Libbey] and asking him whether I was still alive – I didn’t believe I could be. No one gave us any reassurance; it was all like some sick nightmare."
Louise Thompson with son Leo (Instagram)
Louise Thompson with fiancé Ryan Libbey and their son (Ryan Libbey/Instagram)She added: "‘Everyone in the room looked very distressed, I could feel their shaky hands on my body. If they’d allowed me to have a planned c-section, things could have been very different."
Louise required several transfusions in the aftermath of the birth and was left with post-traumatic stress disorder which led to her questioning whether she had what it took to carry on. She said: "I didn’t care if I died. I just wanted someone else to kill me because I didn’t have the confidence to do it myself." The reality star added: "I was in a state of perpetual fear and hyper-vigilance, unable to function for a large period of time, sitting on the sofa, completely losing my soul, my personality."
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This led to her not feeling like she could parent Leo. She revealed: "I really was not a good parent for a very long time. For most of his first few months I couldn’t have told you what he was doing or even who was looking after him. When I did see him, I would hold him at arm’s length. I didn’t talk or sing to him."
In January, Louise revealed that her medical woes were continuing as she announced to her followers, "Hey, look I've got a stoma," as she shared a photo of herself wearing a grey bag. This followed Louise having her colon removed after she suffered chronic bowel disease ulcerative colitis, which left her in crippling pain and passing blood after months of diarrhoea. Louise will now wear the bag for the rest of her life.
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