Fans were brought to tears as Olivia Bowen bravely recounted her near-death experience during childbirth
OLIVIA Bowen fans have broken down in tears watching traumatic scenes as she recounted her near-fatal labour.
The TV personality, 31, – who met and fell for husband Alex on Love Island in 2016 – gave birth to baby Siena in August.
Opening up recently about her ordeal, Olivia and Alex exclusively told The Sun that it was the “scariest” experience of their life as they revealed exactly what happened.
During last night’s show, Olivia explained how she was hoping to have an easier birth after a traumatic experience when she had son Abel in 2022.
But, Olivia explained how she felt that something was wrong and got rushed to A&E in an ambulance.
This led the doctors to discover that she had a severe bladder prolapse, which occurs when the bladder slips down from its normal position and can bulge out of the vagina.
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She said: “I was really scared, its a surgery and its a big thing and its not the easy was out.
“She came out crying which was incredible and beautiful and I had her on my face and I started to feel dizzy.
Olivia added: “The nurse started calling out how much blood I was loosing and all I could hear was 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 and it was going up and up quickly and the fear sunk in really quickly, it was really scary.”
A visibly upset Olivia then broke into tears and said: “They started yelling, major haemorrhage across all the surgery room and that’s all I remember.
“There was doctors in and out and no one was telling me what was going on. I felt so sick and dizzy and Alex said the blood just drained from me.
“I remember thinking don’t close your eyes because I thought I’d pass out or even worse.
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“It was very close. I ended up losing 2.8 litres of blood and you only have 4.5 litres so the blood loss – to feel that you are that close to losing your life, was very very scary.”
Olivia explained she felt lucky to be alive and thanked the NHS for “saving her life”.
She said: “The doctors were absolutely incredible. The NHS were amazing, they saved my life.
“I was full of medication and I don’t know where I was but I wanted this natural birth and then being medicated and going through that to nearly losing my life it just made me not give a s**t what happened because I’m here and she is here. I feel so lucky.
“The recovery is a lot harder than I thought it would be. I have no strength, can’t drive for six weeks.
“The amount of blood I lost I haven’t got the
Fans took to Instagram to show their support after the emotional scenes reported The Daily Mail.
One wrote: “Such a brave person, made me real emotional; Watched it and cried my eyes out! Such a beautiful family;
Another said: “You’re such a brave woman. Watching this episode was so emotional. Its lovely to see you all so happy as a family of 4. Your positivity is unbelievable. Super woman”.
While a third said: “I actually got teary watching Olivia in labour, as I felt her pain….a pain you never forget. @oliviadbowen you are the most amazing mum & one strong woman”.
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With two healthy happy children, Alex and Olivia recently confirmed that they have no plans to have anymore kids.
Cory Wharton Says Daughter Maya’s Open-Heart Procedure Has Inspired Him to Give Back to Families in Need
Cory Wharton says his three-year-old daughter Maya’s latest open-heart surgery has inspired him to give back to other children and families, noting that his charitable efforts are “a far cry from MTV.”
As The Ashley previously told you, Cory and ex-girlfriend Taylor Selfridge’s daughter Maya, who was born with a rare form of heart disease called tricuspid atresia, recently underwent her final open-heart surgery called the Fontan. Two weeks after the surgery, Taylor– who also shares daughter Mila with Cory– told fans that the procedure had improved Maya’s oxygenation levels, as well as her overall coloring.
(According to the Cleveland Clinic website, a Fontan procedure “improves circulation in people who have only one working heart ventricle. This problem happens because of one of several congenital heart diseases. The Fontan procedure lets oxygen-poor blood from the lower part of your body go straight to your pulmonary artery– and then lungs– for oxygen instead of going through your heart first.”)
Cory revealed to TMZ this week that, while Maya’s surgery was successful and she was ultimately discharged from Children’s Hospital Los Angeles after a two-week recovery, he realizes that some families aren’t as fortunate.
“I was just happy that we were able to leave the Children’s Hospital, because there’s a lot of families there that they’re not gonna leave, they’re waiting a year or two for a heart transplant,” he said. “ … It’s sad man, walking around there, but there were people in that building that found a way to smile and … just by talking to them over time, I was just like, these people are staying positive when they’re at their lowest and it was crazy for me to see and experience.”
Cory went on to say that the recent experience has inspired him to find ways to help those in need.
“I’m just so thankful to God that we made it out of the hospital, my daughter’s fine and now the biggest thing for me is, like, I’m trying to give back,” he said. “I wanna do whatever I can to try to help out [at] Children’s Hospital or [with] young ones that are in need.
“I wanna give back a little bit … it’s a far cry from MTV, but I wanna try to do something positive with what I got going now,” he added.
As you may remember, Cory and Taylor previously shared that they learned about Maya’s heart condition when Taylor was about 22 weeks pregnant, at which point they were told that Maya would need a series of procedures due to the condition. At just six days old, Maya had a stent put in place; later that year, Maya– then seven-months-old– underwent her first open-heart surgery, during which she suffered some complications.
Taylor shared this month that Maya should not need any more open-heart surgeries in her lifetime; and if she does, it would not be until adulthood.
