LOUISE Thompson has shared a heartbreaking fertility update in the wake of her family struggling after she almost died during labour.
The TV personality, 35, welcomed her son Leo in 2021 through an emergency caesarean section after she almost passed away trying to deliver naturally.
Now Louise and her fiance Ryan Libbey have made the decision to put expanding their family on hold to work on their mental health before trying for another baby in the future via a surrogate.
Despite saying late last year that she hoped to have another baby in 2026, Louise will be getting her eggs frozen.
Speaking on Fearne Cotton‘s Happy Place podcast, which will release fully on Monday, Louise talked about the decision to freeze her eggs and how the journey to having another baby has hit Ryan the hardest out of the two of them.
“My partner and I feel like we would like to give Leo a sibling because we are really close with our siblings. I have been left with some fertility,” Louise shared in the podcast’s teaser posted to her social media platforms.
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“It’s not going to be an easy journey. I have decided to try and freeze some fertility while we continue to work on our mental space.
“This has affected Ryan almost worse than it has affected me especially when it comes to growing our family. For him he thinks ‘why would we risk anything?’.
“We’re so lucky because I survived, I’m here and I do have a good standard of living, I’ve also got the most amazing child, he’s so beautiful. But growing our family is our legacy and our right.
“I should have been given the right to a safe and dignified birth which would have allowed me to leave procreation to chance where I could have sex with my partner and maybe have another baby.
“We’re not alone in this infertility journey, our chances are just really different due to the scarring I’ve been left with.”
Leo’s traumatic birth left Louise with post-natal anxiety from her near death experience as well as PTSD.
She’s also since been diagnosed with lupus, Asherman’s symdrome, suffered a second hemorrhage, developed blinking issues, and has been fitted with a stoma bag.
Though her family’s journey looks different to the initial plan, Louise has still been sharing updates with her followers about her plans to have another baby someday.
After speaking to a surrogacy lawyer, Louise shared to Instagram: “What a day! From the news this morning that we only had four fertilised eggs out of 20 on day one that felt really heartbreaking to an appointment with a bank in Chelsea super dooper early to sort mortgage stuff, then jumping on a call with a brand to discuss a petite collection I’m bringing out.
“Which is bringing joy to me, but even mentioning family expansion on all these calls when I know that I’m harbouring the truth of the fact that it’s going to be so much harder for us than people might even envisage on the outside. Why would we have infertility?
“Obviously uterus poses a huge problem but, there’s no reason why a 35-year-old with a high AMH and a partner who is practically the cover of Men’s Health why we should be having an issues. Trying to hold onto the good and the positive is sometimes hard.”
Ahead of the New Year the happy couple shared how “all they wanted” for 2026 was another baby.
Though now Louise has admitted that the “complicated” journey has left her “afraid” and unlikely to ever carry another child.
Before welcoming Leo, Louise also suffered a miscarriage.
