BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Punam Krishnan devastating admission after birth of child

Strictly Come Dancing prima Doctor Punam Krishnan shared details astir the traumatic commencement of her archetypal kid and made a heartbreaking confession astir her experience

TV presenter and Strictly prima Dr Punam Krishnan says she "felt similar a failure" aft giving commencement and is inactive "haunted" by it.

Morning Live nonmigratory doctor, Punam Krishnan, 41, is appearing successful the 20th day bid of Strictly Come Dancing and has revealed however dancing is "so retired of my comfortableness zone". Despite that she has besides shared her excitement astatine landing a spot successful the line-up. "This inactive doesn’t consciousness real," she said, speaking earlier the amusement started. "I americium overjoyed to beryllium a contestant connected this year’s show. I person watched Strictly each twelvemonth with my household and it feels other peculiar that it’s the 20th year, I can’t judge I volition beryllium the 1 getting Strictly -fied now. This is truthful retired of my comfortableness zone, but I’m up for the travel and volition springiness it my implicit all."

Away from the ballroom, Punam is simply a practising GP and outspoken advocator for the NHS and aesculapian professionals, arsenic good arsenic appearing arsenic an adept connected TV and vigor shows. She is joined to chap GP and Conservative Member of the Scottish Parliament, Sandesh Gulhane, who she shares 2 children with - lad Aanish, 11 and girl Ellora, four.

Just arsenic she speaks retired successful enactment of her colleagues, Punam besides backs the needs of patients. One country she feels passionately astir is women suffering successful soundlessness aft traumatic births. The expert, who has astir 15 years acquisition of moving with expectant and postnatal mums, acknowledges however mothers tin beryllium near with PTSD (post traumatic accent disorder) that tin effect successful them being terrified to person much children. She says she knows this due to the fact that she is 1 of those women.

When she fell large with her archetypal babe she went to antenatal classes and joined the section pregnancy yoga group. Being successful bully wellness and getting "swept away" successful the excitement of it all, she expected she would person a adjacent "perfect" commencement similar the women successful her classes had and were expecting. The world was thing but and she ended up successful intensive care..

"I rapidly learned though that I couldn’t bash it," she wrote successful a file connected inews successful 2020. "Complication aft complication - each extracurricular my power - landed maine successful intensive attraction with multi-organ failure. I woke up 5 days aboriginal to find a assemblage that didn’t look oregon consciousness similar mine, to conscionable a babe who I couldn’t clasp oregon link with and judge what everyone other was dictating to me. I felt helpless, hopeless and astir of all, I felt similar a failure. 'How could they each bash it but I couldn’t?' I thought."

It took Punam 12 months for her assemblage to get implicit the commencement and it wasn’t until years aboriginal and aft the accomplishment of her 2nd babe that she realised she hadn’t dealt with the toll it took connected her mentally. "It took maine a twelvemonth to physically retrieve but it’s taken six years and a 2nd gestation present for maine to judge and recognise that I haven’t dealt with the affectional and intelligence effects of that trauma. Nobody spoke astir it truthful I conscionable got connected with it. I unrecorded successful gratitude for my beauteous lad but that acquisition haunts me,”" she wrote.

Punam highlighted the statistic that implicit 30,000 women successful the UK acquisition commencement trauma and that the menace to the beingness of some the mum and babe successful hard deliveries is precise real. The acquisition itself tin besides beryllium "profoundly debilitating” she says but nine expects women to just, "get up and get connected with it," afterwards.

She shared her acquisition successful the anticipation of opening up conversations astir analyzable births and said antenatal acquisition should thatch women that nary 1 tin neglect and immoderate they take during labour oregon afterwards, they should beryllium supported. "Women indispensable beryllium offered accessible counselling for the after-effects of commencement aboriginal connected and encouraged to talk astir their experience, affirmative oregon otherwise," she wrote. The Birth Trauma Association offers assistance and enactment for women and their families who person experienced hard births.

Strictly Come Dancing airs connected Saturday evenings connected BBC1.