Though Lala Kent had a “perfect” second pregnancy, her quick labor and delivery of daughter Sosa led to some scary complications.
The “Vanderpump Rules” star — who welcomed the baby girl with the help of a sperm donor earlier this month — took to her “Give Them Lala” podcast Wednesday to share details about the birth experience.
“During my second-to-last push, [my obstetrician] kind of stands up really fast, and he’s fixated on the monitor,” she explained.
“And he’s making eyes with the nurse who’s reading things to him that I clearly don’t understand ’cause I’m not a doctor. And he looks nervous.”
Kent, 34, said she asked if everything was OK, to which her doctor replied, “Yep, I just want you to keep pushing.”
It turns out “the [umbilical] cord was wrapped around [Sosa’s] neck a couple of times,” but Kent’s doctor “stayed calm” and “didn’t let [her] know that.”
“She comes out, they put her on my chest and I go to hug her — you know, embrace my baby — but the way that the nurse is acting with the baby … and she’s not crying. She does one cry and then it stops,” Kent recalled.
“And my hands are freezing, so I’m like, ‘I’m not touching her because I don’t want to send her into shock.'”
The Bravolebrity said the nurses began “rubbing her chest” and “sucking things out of her mouth.”
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“For mama, it was great that she came out so quickly ’cause I didn’t have to push very many times, but with a fast birth like that, she swallowed a lot of amnionic fluid,” Kent told her listeners, adding that her newborn “had so much fluid that she was vomiting all the food she had.”
Kent recalled the moment her daughter “turned purple,” which “freaked out” the nurse who was with her, who then called for backup.
“They then bring in a specialist, and they’re like, ‘We want a surgeon to look at her ’cause this isn’t normal, and we got 10 milliliters of amnionic fluid out of her stomach the first time, then we got another eight, then we got another however many milliliters,” the Give Them Lala Beauty founder shared.
“And they go, ‘And now we’re draining it through the nose, and it won’t stop.’ And they said, ‘We’re either going to have pediatric surgery deal with it, or we wanna keep her in the NICU.'”
Kent remembered being “beside [her]self” and asking, “What the f–k?”
When questioned about her pregnancy with Sosa, Kent responded, “It was perfect.”
However, she soon “started feeling guilty,” wondering what she did during the pregnancy that she didn’t do during her first with daughter Ocean, 3, whom she shares with ex-fiancé Randall Emmett.
“I started crying, and they were like, ‘You did nothing wrong during pregnancy; we’re just a little confused,'” Kent explained, noting that Sosa ended up being “fine.”
