Photo: Gretchen Rossi/Instagram
Real Housewives of Orange CountyalumGretchen Rossiis opening up about her pregnancy, revealing to fans on Tuesday that she will be having a C-section.
“Tomorrow is the Day!!!” she wrote in a lengthy caption of anInstagram postfeaturing photos from her recentPEOPLE maternity shoot.
“Doctor said I am only dilated 1cm and I guess I have a ‘cervix of steel’ 😜 so it’s not really cooperating at this point and just my pelvic exam yesterday was so beyond painful that I almost passed out, then started to hyperventilate because of that, which then lead to a panic attack! Needless to say I was a hot mess!” she continued.
“When you have this vision of how you want your labor and delivery to go and it doesn’t turn out they way you imagined, there is this sadness and internal struggle with ‘why isn’t my body cooperating’ or am I making the right decision etc,” she said.
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Rossi continued to say that God gave her a sign that it was the correct decision: “He literally had so many of my friends reach out to me yesterday and put me at ease about a potential c-section (and they didn’t even know what had happened at the appt.)”
Rossi also recounted the experience of the doctor’s appointment and decision-making process in an Instagram Story, asking for advice from fans who may have had a similar experience.
“I just really didn’t want to do a C-section,” she said. “I need some advice, help, support from any of you out there that have had C-sections so that I can feel like it’s going to be okay.”
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Inanother postfrom July 1, Rossi said that a C-section could be a possibility.
“#10 Days till I am induced and or doing a c-section (depending on what position Sky is in at the time)” she wrote underneath photos from an ultrasound.
Gretchen Rossi, Slade Smiley.Oxana Alex Photography
“I’ve just loved the name Skylar ever since I was a little girl,” Rossi told toldAccess Hollywoodin April.
“And it was so interesting because when I told Slade, it was so cute to see his reaction to it. He was just like, ‘Oh my gosh, I love the name Skylar!’ He immediately took to the name,” she added. “It is so perfect in so many ways and for so many reasons. We’ve spent so much time praying and looking to the sky for guidance and looking for help and supportin this IVF journey.”
Skylar’s middle name is in honor of Smiley’s 18-year-old sonGrayson, who has brain cancer.
Rossi told the outlet, “When we thought about that, we thought, Grayson has been so unbreakable and it seems like little Skylar Gray is so unbreakable, so we decided to name her Skylar Gray after Grayson.”
source: people.com
