Gemma Atkinson: 'I hired a private midwife - she was fabulous'
ok.co.ukWhen Gemma Atkinson gave birth to her first baby Mia she needed an emergency C-section and then suffered a scary postpartum haemorrhage as her partner Gorka Márquez anxiously looked on.
So when baby Thiago Thomas Márquez was born, Gemma wanted things to be different and decided to hire her own private midwife to monitor the pregnancy and help after the baby was born.The former Hollyoaks and Emmerdale actress – who has been filming her pregnancy story for her forthcoming W channel documentary Gemma And Gorka: Life Behind The Lens – hoped to have a vaginal birth this time around However, when her contractions stopped after 24 hours of active labour, she elected to have another C-section.
In her documentary, Gemma answers the questions she was too shy to ask as a first-time mum and goes back to NHS Bolton where Mia was born to find out why she suffered a postpartum haemorrhage. “I was more confused than traumatised,” explains Gemma. “I was in labour for two days, then after the C-section, I ended up having a postpartum haemorrhage.
Mia was tiny and I thought, ‘Why did I really bleed out so much after what happened?’” For Gorka, watching the woman he loves being rushed from the room by medics was terrifying. “It was horrible,” he recalls. “I didn’t know what was going on.
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