Louise Thompson has endured a lot of trauma over the past four years. The former Made in Chelsea star turned fitness influencer ended 2020 with a miscarriage. She then became pregnant again with her son Leo, undergoing an agonising labour that culminated in an emergency caesarean.
Medics took three hours to staunch a haemorrhage, during which Thompson lost three-and-a-half litres of blood: more than three quarters of her body's volume. She later found out it was because her womb had torn.
'I heard a cry as Leo came out, but I didn't care that I had a child. I genuinely believed every second I was bleeding to death,' she says softly. 'No one gave us any reassurance; it was all like some sick nightmare.'
In truth, the nightmare hadn't even begun...
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