Kailyn Lowry (L), Kailyn Lowry’s son (R).Photo:Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty; Kailyn Lowry/Instagram
Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty; Kailyn Lowry/Instagram
The pregnant podcaster, 31, sat down with boyfriend Elijah Scott for anew episodeof herBarely Famouspodcast, where the two discussed sonRio’s birth last year.
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Kailyn Lowry with her kids, Isaac, Lincoln, Lux, and Creed.Kailyn Lowry Instagram
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Lowry says she was in labor for about 17 hours when it was time to push. “I remember them asking you if you were ready to start pushing, and you said, ‘Yeah,’ " Scott recalls. “And from you saying that it was two minutes and he was here.”
“I need you to tell the podcast listeners what you told me, because the first time I asked you why, I didn’t want to keep bugging you about it,” she shares. “I didn’t want to upset you and I didn’t want to upset myself, but I couldn’t wrap my head around it. Why didn’t you cry?”
“I’m worried about him and you’re over here crying asking if he’s okay. And I’m like, ‘Yes, he’s fine.'”
“But he wasn’t fine,” Lowry interjects, to which Scott replies, “No but I’m trying to keep you calm and still trying to worry about him. It’s kind of traumatic in a way.”
Lowry also says she only recently looked at photos from the birth because it was “all the way traumatizing” for her.
“When they took him over to the incubator thing, there were eight or nine nurses working on him,” she says. “And I didn’t know what was going on. We didn’t hear anything. He wasn’t breathing and they kept saying he wasn’t breathing, so that’s where I was like, ‘Okay, this is near death.'”
Scott disagrees about it being a “near death” situation but agrees it was worrisome that Rio “didn’t cry” for days. When Lowry was in a meeting with his medical team discussing her concerns about that, Scott’s mom came in and reported that he was finally crying.”
“I’ve had four children before this and never knew that you could get preeclampsia after you give birth,” she shares.
Of son Isaac, 13, she jokes, “He may be tired of me having babies but he’s not tired from helping.”
“Lux will fight to help,” she continues. “He wants to make bottles. We’ll be getting ready for bed and he’s like, ‘Just let me make the bottle.’ And I can make the bottle five times faster, but sometimes you just got to let them help because they’re asking.”
“My biggest thing right now is that I don’t want my other children to be the responsibility of their older siblings,” she concludes.
source: people.com
