Former Little Mix star Jesy Nelson was devastated to “miss” the birth of her twins after doctors decided she needed to be “put to sleep” – revealing it was “the most awful feeling” to wake up and the babies are “not there”.
Jesy Nelson was devastated to “miss” the birth of her twins after she was “put to sleep” for an emergency caesarean-section.
The former Little Mix star became a first-time mother last year when she welcomed daughters Ocean and Story with her former partner Zion Foster, but she faced a number of complications which she meant she spent three months prior to the birth in hospital on bed rest and she missed the girls’ arrival into the world because she was sedated.
During an appearance on the Great Company with Jamie Laing podcast, Jesy explained: “I’d been living in hospital for nearly three months …
“[Then the doctors said] We’ll have to put you to sleep. Oh, my God, are you actually kidding me? So now I’m gonna miss this [the birth]as well.
“I feel like, in my whole pregnancy, everything like, was taken from me. Like, all the things you’re supposed to enjoy, they were all taken from me.
“And I was like, that [the birth] was my one thing. I was so excited to see the birth of my children, and I didn’t get that either.”
Jesy’s heartbreak was compounded when she was unable to see or touch her daughters after they arrived because they were premature and needed special treatment.
She added: “It’s the most awful feeling when you’ve carried babies for nine months in your belly and you wake up, they’re not there, and you can’t even see them.
“And I remember being like, well, I want to go see them, so you can’t we can’t see them yet. We need to make sure you’re okay, and then you can go see them. And then when you do go see them, they’re in a plastic box, and you can’t touch them”.
Jesy’s daughters were born nine weeks early and she admits they were “tiny”.
She added: “They were 31 weeks, and they were tiny. They were so, so small. It’s so mad, because I remember seeing like full term babies around the time that I had them, and full term babies were like toddlers.
“To me, that’s how tiny they were. And I just remember thinking that I would kind of can’t ever imagine them being that big size”.
Jesy Nelson was devastated to ‘miss’ twins’ birth
