OLIVIA Bowen fans have broken down in tears watching traumatic scenes as she recounted her near-fatal labour.
The TV personality, 31, – who met and fell for husband Alex on Love Island in 2016 – gave birth to baby Siena in August.
Opening up recently about her ordeal, Olivia and Alex exclusively told The Sun that it was the “scariest” experience of their life as they revealed exactly what happened.
During last night’s show, Olivia explained how she was hoping to have an easier birth after a traumatic experience when she had son Abel in 2022.
But, Olivia explained how she felt that something was wrong and got rushed to A&E in an ambulance.
This led the doctors to discover that she had a severe bladder prolapse, which occurs when the bladder slips down from its normal position and can bulge out of the vagina.
She said: “I was really scared, its a surgery and its a big thing and its not the easy was out.
“She came out crying which was incredible and beautiful and I had her on my face and I started to feel dizzy.
Olivia added: “The nurse started calling out how much blood I was loosing and all I could hear was 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 and it was going up and up quickly and the fear sunk in really quickly, it was really scary.”
A visibly upset Olivia then broke into tears and said: “They started yelling, major haemorrhage across all the surgery room and that’s all I remember.
“There was doctors in and out and no one was telling me what was going on. I felt so sick and dizzy and Alex said the blood just drained from me.
“I remember thinking don’t close your eyes because I thought I’d pass out or even worse.
“It was very close. I ended up losing 2.8 litres of blood and you only have 4.5 litres so the blood loss – to feel that you are that close to losing your life, was very very scary.”
Olivia explained she felt lucky to be alive and thanked the NHS for “saving her life”.
She said: “The doctors were absolutely incredible. The NHS were amazing, they saved my life.
“I was full of medication and I don’t know where I was but I wanted this natural birth and then being medicated and going through that to nearly losing my life it just made me not give a s**t what happened because I’m here and she is here. I feel so lucky.
“The recovery is a lot harder than I thought it would be. I have no strength, can’t drive for six weeks.
“The amount of blood I lost I haven’t got the energy to recover, the doctors said it will be three months until I feel like myself again.”
Fans took to Instagram to show their support after the emotional scenes reported The Daily Mail.
One wrote: “Such a brave person, made me real emotional; Watched it and cried my eyes out! Such a beautiful family;
Another said: “You’re such a brave woman. Watching this episode was so emotional. Its lovely to see you all so happy as a family of 4. Your positivity is unbelievable. Super woman”.
While a third said: “I actually got teary watching Olivia in labour, as I felt her pain….a pain you never forget. @oliviadbowen you are the most amazing mum & one strong woman”.
With two healthy happy children, Alex and Olivia recently confirmed that they have no plans to have anymore kids.
