Kimberly Walsh has opened up about her experience of giving birth, saying the pain she endured brought her “close to breaking point”.
The Girls Aloud star welcomed her first son, Bobby Jay, with husband Justin Scott earlier this month and told OK Magazine that she struggled to get through the demands of labour, with doctors eventually using forceps to help the delivery.
“I was quite close to my breaking point of what I could cope with and was worried about how complicated the delivery would be so I took the safe option. It’s that pain that’s so concentrated that nothing helps,” she said.
“However, you do have a break in between and that’s how you deal with it. You think thank God it’s over, and then it comes back again! I tried to breathe through it but I didn’t feel like I could. Your reaction is to wince to get through it.”
While she may have endured as difficult birth, Walsh said that she and Scott are adjusting well to parenthood, with the new father adding that he can “manage quite well without a lot of sleep, even though I’d like more!”.
“I think some dads feel like a spare part in the early stages so it is nice that I’m able to help out and it gives Kim the chance to have a nap here and there. I’m a night owl so I’m happy. I tend to do the first two night feeds or if Kim is doing them, I keep her company so that I’m not just laying there snoring.”
