Laura Anderson honestly details daughter's ‘horrendous’ birth with ex Gary Lucy by her side

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Reality TV star Laura Anderson recently welcomed her beautiful baby daughter Bonnie with ex Hollyoaks' Gary Lucy, but the 34-year-old has now admitted just how 'horrendous' the birth was.The former Love Island contestant told fans about her full birth story where she suffered a vaginal tear and a postpartum haemorrhage that left her feeling "mentally quite torturous".The traumatic event caused Laura to lose 1.6 litres of blood in the process, but thankfully the star is now at home recovering with her medication.

While she takes the new chapter of motherhood in her stride, Laura gave a really detailed account on Instagram. She described that she had four sweeps - something that is thought to help start labour - then suffered "horrendous contractions" after getting the non-hormonal cervical balloon to induce labour.

In the video, she said: "I was in the hospital and I was only one centimetre dilated but I just felt no one was taking me seriously. "I was having contractions like every minute and a half and I was like this is a lot, and I have got so long to go, and I wasn't in the labour ward yet because you have to be four centimetres.

I found it mentally quite torturous because I felt it was going to be so long with no pain relief." Laura then bravely opened up and admitted that she started bleeding as they reached a delivery room, but within the hour she went from four to nine centimetres dilated and using gas and air.