SELLING Sunset’s Christine Quinn opened up about her traumatic labour on This Morning today saying she and her baby “flatlined”.
The Netflix star welcomed her son Christian on May 15th after a terrifying hospital experience.
And Christine, 33, told presenters Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield today her had son “changed” her life and made her “grateful” for her huge successes.
She said: “I have a four-month baby. I never knew that I could love anyone more than myself.
“The focus isn’t really on me anyway… it’s changed my life.”
Recounting giving birth to her son early back in May, she said: “I had a very traumatic birth. My water broke when we were filming.
“I was flatlining and the baby was flatlining, we both almost didn’t make it. So I learned to be so grateful for life and everything I have.”
The newlywed and her husband Christian Richard welcomed their child on May 15th, a son named Christian Georges Dumontet.
The reality star recently took to Instagram to explain the “trauma” of that day.
‘Dramatic Entrance’
“Happy 2 month birthday to my sweet little baby! Two months ago today, you made an extremely dramatic entrance, just like your mommy. (Except you were very early, and I am always late),” she joked.
She continued: “Reliving the trauma on Selling Sunset about my birth experience, was one of the most difficult things I have ever done; let alone allowing these very raw, personal moments of my life captured on camera.
“I am not often publicly vulnerable, as I feel the responsibility to put on a brave face, despite still feeling at the time hopeless, terrified, and to this day traumatized. Both myself, and baby Christian are lucky to be alive.”
The Selling Sunset star then explained how after her water broke, she was “rushed to the hospital already 9cm dilated.”
She disclosed: “Hyperventilating from the excruciating pain, I was immediately rushed in to an emergency crash C-section due to both our heart rates instantly plummeting.
“Baby C umbilical cord was wrapped around his neck. Baby C was seconds away from not making it,” Christine explained, adding that the “surgeons didn’t even have time to count their tools before stitching me up as I was flatlining.”
The model continued on to say that the doctors had to run her “through the X-ray machine immediately after surgery” to ensure there were no “remaining tools” left in her body.
“I am so grateful for the doctors and surgeons that saved BOTH of us. I thank God everyday for my blessings, and my miracle baby,” she gushed.
Christine told her followers to “always remember life is too short and grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Let go of what you can, and take chances.
“Give everything and have no regrets. Life is too short to be unhappy,” she urged.
