Jess Wright, a reality star, has revealed that her first child was born via emergency Caesarean section five days before her due date.
The former The Only Way Is Essex star, 36, was ‘intent’ to have a natural birth with her husband, 39-year-old businessman William Lee-Kemp, and Loose Women panellist Carol Wright by her side.
However, baby Presley was born through Caesarean section on May 17 at London’s Portland Hospital after Wright observed his movements had slowed.
‘In those last few weeks he had been so active and then, all of sudden, it completely dropped, which was very scary, so our doctor told us to come straight to hospital,’ she recounted.
Medics tried for 48 hours to induce the labour. Jess said that ‘They monitored him again and found his heart rate was dropping slightly. They thought he might be lying in an awkward position, so the sensible decision was to have an emergency C-section and get him out quickly.’
She told Hello! magazine: ‘I had been so intent on having a natural birth and to go through that experience as I’d done all the hypnobirthing, but I had a sense of “this is our destiny, this is how it is supposed to happen”, and we accepted it, and then got excited that it was happening so quickly.’
Opting to be ‘strong and positive and embrace it’ over panicking, she called her labour ‘the most incredible, surreal, overwhelming experience ever’.
Jess added that the couple chose the name Presley months before the birth of their kid after she heard it from someone when she was eight weeks pregnant and her husband liked it as well.
She went on to say that becoming a mother had been a ‘whirlwind,’ but it had been ‘amazing.’
‘It is such an intense, crazy time having your first child and not knowing what to expect. We are learning more every day,’ she remarked.
‘What we have taken from the first few weeks is that there is no set routine, there are no set rules. You learn as you go along.’
The reality star revealed that her TV and radio presenter brother Mark Wright, who also appeared on Towie, ‘loves being an uncle,’ but his wife, actress Michelle Keegan, has yet to meet Presley because she is filming in Australia.
Jess confirmed in November that she was expecting her first child with Will, whom she married in September in Majorca.
She previously disclosed that the pair found out she was pregnant during their wedding celebrations.
They tied the knot in a grandiose ceremony on the Spanish island, which was followed by a poolside celebration and a banquet in a castle and was broadcast on ITVBe.