Sofia Richie Shares Details About ‘Traumatic’ Labor and Postpartum

Taking that advice, she went to the infirmary wherever they informed her that she was successful progressive labour astatine 32 weeks.

“I was truly terrified, Sofia—Lionel Richie’s youngest, whom helium shares with ex Diane Alexander—said astir the doctor’s reveal. "Thank God she said that, due to the fact that they hooked maine up to the show and they were like, 'You're successful progressive labor.'”

What she thought was going to beryllium a fewer hours stay, ended up arsenic a six-night enactment successful the infirmary portion she was monitored. 

But aft being released and enactment connected furniture rest, she was successful progressive labour for six weeks, earlier being induced astatine the 38-week mark.

When it came clip to invited Elosie, Sofia said “I had a fantastic delivery.”

"I gave commencement and I was like, 'Wow, I truly did that,’” she gushed. “I did six weeks oregon nevertheless galore weeks of contractions and I person my beauteous daughter. I'm healthy. I'm safe. She's healthy. She's safe."

Still, Sofia’s betterment wasn’t needfully creaseless sailing arsenic conscionable 2 days aft welcoming her babe girl, Sofia began to consciousness sick.

"I went location and I blew up similar a balloon” she recalled. “Quite literally, conscionable swelled. I felt precise ill... So she [Dr. A] sent implicit her fantastic caregiver and my humor unit was 165 implicit 103, which is like…”

According to Dr. A, Sofia was suffering from Postpartum preeclampsia, which according to The Mayo Clinic is, “a uncommon information that occurs erstwhile you person precocious humor unit and excess macromolecule successful your urine soon aft childbirth.” And ultimately, to her devastation, it landed Sofia backmost successful the hospital.

 "The hardest happening I ever had to do, I deliberation literally, was permission my girl 2 days postpartum,” she admitted. “It was horrendous. I really hid successful the closet and cried."

"And my mediocre hubby was like, 'I person to get you to the infirmary due to the fact that the doc is saying it's conscionable not safe. It's not harmless that you're home,’” she added. “So I spent 24 hours successful the infirmary and it was really, really, truly hard.”

It was the ma guilt that made the days of betterment distant from her babe miss hard.

"My ma guilt kicked in,” she said. “I don't cognize why, from the 2nd Eloise was born, I was like, 'I can't miss an awake time. I can't miss a moment. I don't privation idiosyncratic other taking attraction of my kid.'”

Now, 3 months aft welcoming her babe girl, Sofia is “finally feeling similar myself again.” And though she had a small setback with her pregnancy, she misses that clip with her baby.