BBC Breakfast star feared she was dying after ‘traumatic’ incident

Former BBC Breakfast prima Louise Minchin has elaborate a terrifying incidental successful hospital, wherever she was disquieted she was going to die.

The newsreader, 56, who co-hosted BBC Breakfast until 2021, shares 2 daughters with her husband, Mia and Scarlett.

Recalling the commencement of her eldest, Mia, Louise has shared she was successful request of counselling aft a ‘traumatic’ experience.

‘I deliberation I’ve been done rather a fewer things successful my beingness that I conscionable enactment them successful a container and unopen it,’ she began, speaking connected Gabby Logan’s The Mid-Point podcast.

‘That’s what I bash with tons of things, erstwhile Mia was born, that’s the lone happening I’ve ever benignant of had to question assistance for actually.

‘When Mia was born, a week aft she was born, I had a burst appendix. It was really, truly serious.’

Louise said that it was a ‘ridiculous’ coincidence that her appendix had burst portion she was successful hospital, but didn’t cognize if the symptom was linked to her gestation oregon not.

She continued: ‘It was my archetypal gestation truthful I didn’t know. I kept telling them that I had this pain, but they conscionable thought, “It was your body, you’re having this baby, what bash you expect?”

‘Literally six days aft she was calved and it burst portion I was successful infirmary and it was precise melodramatic and precise traumatic.

‘That’s the lone happening I’ve ever had assistance with actually, due to the fact that I thought I was going to dice six days aft my babe was born.’

Louise antecedently said that aft her appendix burst, she was diagnosed with post-traumatic accent upset and needed months to recover.

The I’m A Celebrity prima told The Mirror successful 2013: ‘After coming retired of hospital, I was inactive successful pain. I’d slumber for hours and was successful tons of pain. It took 9 months to recover.

‘At the time, I called the scars my M25. I’m gladsome to accidental that aft 11 years, the M25 is looking better. It’s inactive there, but determination aren’t truthful galore bumps immoderate more!

‘Although the scare didn’t enactment maine disconnected having much children, I delayed it. But the commencement of my 2nd was a breeze.

‘It was fortunate it each happened aft Mia was born. I can’t ideate what would person happened if I had been pregnant. It changed me, but I’m much affirmative now.

‘When thing similar that happens, it gives you a antithetic perspective.’

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