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The Sun
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Emily Andre reveals reason she'll never have another baby and breaks silence on ‘never seen by doctors before' issue
PETER Andre's wife Emily has revealed why she'll never have another baby, and broke her silence on a 'never seen by doctors before' health issue. The Mysterious Girl hitmaker welcomed his third child, Arabella, now one, with wife Emily MacDonagh in April 2024. 5 Together, the duo share two other children, Amelia, 11, and eight-year-old Theo. Peter, 52, also shares two kids, Junior, 19, and Princess, 17, with ex-wife Katie Price. But now, on the Happy Mum, Happy Baby podcast with Giovanna Fletcher, Emily has discussed plans for more children, and why it won't be on the cards for them. She said: 'It's absolutely cemented now. "We always said it would be the last anyway. Five's enough, we don't have any more bedrooms in the house for starters." And there's a reason behind this decision, after a traumatic birth with baby Arabella. Emily explained: "I had weird complications all the way through. She was breech. I've had two breech babies. 'She nearly made it to 38 weeks, and I haven't really spoken about her birth and what happened afterwards because it was so hard and awful. It was tough. I was really unwell after she was born, there was quite a lot of complications. 'So I had to go back for emergency surgery. She was a week old. I had to kind of hand her over and go in for another operation.' Peter Andre reveals heartbreaking reason he and Emily won't have any more kids Emily went on to explain that she'd developed a really rare type of hernia that was quite large. She went on: 'All the consultants I've seen have said 'we've never seen this in our whole career.' 'Basically part of my bowels were kind of in the wrong place. And the type of hernia that it was can strangulate quite easily and that ends up being an emergency. 'I knew things weren't right after she was born because I had a big, huge lump in my tummy sticking out. 'They got me back after a week to follow it up. The surgeon looked and said 'you need to come into hospital now'. 'They scanned and they could see it was my bowels that had come out basically. 'I was breastfeeding so I thought 'My God, I'm going to have to express milk'. So they let me go home and I could do all of that." Emily explained how she felt before going off for the hernia surgery, adding: 'Going off to theatre was the worst, like handing her (Arabella) over to my mum. I was a right mess. "There was one thing that made me smile. I got into theatre, I was lying on the table. The porter that got me across was so lovely. He said 'You know, I brought Pete here into this theatre'. "The way Pete and I met was my dad operated on him. We were then friends for years. He said 'This was exactly where he lay and this is the room where he met your dad'. It was just something that took my mind off it. "Then the recovery from that was quite awful. I was in hospital for probably two or three days and then the recovery was really, really slow. "They had to do quite a lot of stitching things up and moving things around so the pain was quite bad." Emily said it's taken over a year for her to almost recover fully. She said: "I feel like I'm pretty much back to health now. "Pete was amazing, my mum and dad were amazing. I can't thank the doctors enough who looked after me, and the nurses, and the midwives were absolutely amazing." Asked what caused the hernia, Emily said: "They don't know. There was some kind of defect in the muscle in my tummy quite high up. Whether it was caused from the previous C-section, or whether it just happened in the pregnancy, they don't really know. "It required quite a lot of follow up afterwards as well. Everyone I've seen was like 'I've never heard of that before'." But Emily still said the psychological moment of passing on Arabella after a week was the worst part for her. "It was the handing her over, that was the worst part of it." Download Giovanna Fletcher's Happy Mum Happy Baby podcast every Tuesday at 6am from 5 5
The Independent
04-06-2025
- Health
- The Independent
Couple take legal action after daughter dies hours after birth
A couple are taking legal action against a health board after their daughter died hours after her birth. Liliwen Iris Thomas died in October 2022 just 20 hours after she was born at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff due to complications during labour. Her parents, Emily Brazier and Rhodri Thomas, have launched a civil action against Cardiff and Vale University Health Board. The couple, from Cardiff, who are also parents to daughter Carys and son Ellis, have spoken of the devastation at the loss of Liliwen. They said Ms Brazier's pregnancy had been classed as high-risk and had been monitored accordingly during the antenatal period. But when she went into labour she was left alone to give birth, they claim. 'I have very hazy memories of my labour but then I vividly remember peeling back the covers and seeing Liliwen there, completely still and lifeless,' she said. 'That image will be with me forever. I still have flashbacks and nightmares and have been in counselling since it happened.' Mr Thomas said he was not present when Ms Brazier went into labour due to the maternity unit not allowing partners on the ward overnight, unless their partner was in active labour, which at the point of him leaving she was not. 'I should have been there, I could have been Emily's advocate,' he said. 'I would have pressed the call bell and alerted midwives that she was clearly in active labour and needed extra monitoring and help.' Shortly before midnight on October 9, Ms Brazier said she was given pain relief and left with gas and air before stirring from her drowsiness after 2am to discover her daughter had been born. 'It was absolute panic from that point, they took Liliwen away and rushed me up to the delivery suite, I had lost a lot of blood and needed stitches, IV fluids and a blood transfusion,' she said. 'All this happened while I was still on the induction ward, with only curtains around my bed separating me from four other women. It must have been horrendous for them too.' Liliwen was treated in the neonatal intensive care unit but died later that day. Since her death Ms Brazier, who at the time was studying to be a nurse, has opted against a career in the profession and has been diagnosed with PTSD. 'So many happy memories and special family moments are tinged with sadness,' she said. 'I dread family events and Christmas as Liliwen will never be there, she will always be the missing piece. 'I look at the faces of my living children and long to know what Liliwen would look like now at two-and-a-half years old. I will never get over her death, I feel stuck in time. 'I will never be the same person again. Holding your child as they take their last breath, leaving them behind after their last ever cuddle, walking out of the hospital with an empty car seat, there are so many painful memories seared into my brain. 'I have lost my child; it's every parent's worst nightmare and we live the nightmare every single day.' The couple are being supported in their case by lawyers Slater and Gordon. Lara Bennett, a senior associate at the firm, said: 'We are supporting Emily and Rhodri in every way we can to secure justice for their daughter after the most unimaginable and traumatic ordeal.' A spokeswoman for the Cardiff and Vale University Health Board said: 'Our sincere thoughts and heartfelt condolences remain with Liliwen's family during this incredibly difficult time. 'The health board is fully engaged with the inquest process and it would be inappropriate to comment further until the inquest concludes.'
