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DJ Fisher and his wife Chloe have shared the traumatic details of her 15-hour labour after giving birth to their first child.
The couple welcomed their daughter Bobbi Maree on June 20, and have now opened up about her difficult birth which saw Chloe spend the night in the ICU.
The model, 31, was in labour for more than 15 hours and was forced to spend her first night as a mother alone in the ICU without her family and friends.
Chloe was induced to give birth at 29 weeks pregnant because the baby ‘was big’ and has now described it as the ‘scariest’ moment of her life.
‘That was pretty sad and emotional and so frightening,’ she told listeners of her DarlingShine! podcast on Wednesday.
‘It really has left me physically weak and completely shaken. The trauma of that and leaving Paul [Fisher] very much lingers.’
After the assisted birth, Chloe told how she was left feeling ‘spacey’ and ended up back in the hospital theatre after holding her daughter for no longer than an hour.
‘It was a massive reminder of the fragility of life,’ she said. ‘You can go from the most incredible moment of your life to the scariest moment in the blink of an eye.’
DJ Fisher and his wife Chloe have shared the traumatic details of her 15-hour labour giving birth to their daughter Bobbi
The couple welcomed their daughter Bobbi Maree on June 20, and have now opened up about her difficult birth which saw Chloe spend the night in the ICU
The couple had been trying to conceive for almost five years with multiple rounds of IVF and Chloe suffering multiple miscarriages in that time.
Fisher, whose full name is Paul Nicholas Fisher, also reflected on the life-altering experience and praised his wife Chloe for her strength and calmness while welcoming their first child.
‘[Chloe was] getting into her breathing and trying to focus on not being in pain and I’m like “right, I’ve got to get the fairy lights, the crystals, I’ve got to get the things the girls made her at her baby shower”,’ he explained.
‘For me, that moment was so beautiful, I was giving her ”you’ve got this”,’ he recalled of the first five or six hours, which Chloe spent in-between ‘the bed and bath’ in the hospital birthing suite.
Chloe added: ‘I’m not going to sugarcoat things because it is f**king insane.’
After going into labour at 10pm, Chloe went for five hours without any pain relief, before being given shot of Pethidine, an opioid pain-relief medicine that ‘took the edge off things’ for an hour and a half.
At around 4.30am on June 20, she requested an epidural and described waiting for the nurse to arrive as ‘the longest 45 minutes of my life’.
‘As soon as we got the epidural, me and Chloe were high-fiving,’ Fisher recalled. ‘Smiling, laughing, that’s when the tunes came on.
‘We put on the push playlist and were bopping around. We even rang my manager at one point and we were all crying.
The model, 31, was in labour for more than 15 hours and was forced to spend her first night as a mother alone in the ICU without her family and friends
‘She got life in her face again. I was like ”wow, she’s back”. My wife is back in the room and we were chatting away. This is a piece of p**, you got this, no worries.’
However, Chloe detailed her pain after the epidural wore off and her water broke at 5am and she admitted she thought she would die from the agonising pain.
‘I honestly think I forgot that you have to push,’ Chloe laughed. ‘I was like I’ve nailed it, eight in the morning, I’m having this baby before ten, let’s go… Then, the epidural wore off.
‘At that point, I thought ”holy sh*t I cannot do this. I think I’m going to die. How do I make this pain stop?” The next thought was, you can’t.
‘I remember screaming at Paul at that point, saying if you think I’m ever doing this again, you’re tripping.’
Fisher, 37, admitted he found a whole new respect and love for Chloe watching her give birth to their beloved daughter as he heaped praise on the new mother.
‘I found so much more respect for women, and what Chloe went through,’ he shared. ‘It’s just crazy what women have to go through to give birth. My respect for Chloe is just through the roof. It’s like a whole new love.
‘You’re seeing your wife in so much pain and they’re getting exhausted from all the pushing. What she had to go through was so gnarly. The midwife said have a hold of her leg, and I remember looking down, and the nurse said do you want to touch the hair on the head, and I was like: ”Are you kidding?”’
Chloe had been in labour for more than 15 hours when she asked for a C-section, and was offered forceps and an episiotomy, which is a procedure used to make the vaginal opening wider for childbirth.
Chloe was induced to give birth at 29 weeks pregnant because the baby ‘was big’ and she was committed to having a natural birth
‘I turned over, I got back on the epidural, and on the gas,’ she continued. ‘Basically she was bouncing off my pelvis and coming up and down. I was never going to be able to birth her myself.’
The couple didn’t know if they were going to have a boy or a girl and detailed their joy upon laying eyes on their baby daughter for the first time.
Fisher gushed: ‘Normally you see movies and stuff like that where the, you know, the baby comes out there just crying and and everything like this, and Bobbi just gave out like a little sigh, I feel like it was just like, not like anything massive, and she was so mellow, and I was like she’s our Bobbi girl right there and then.’
The electronic artist choked up as he told his wife: ‘To see you go through so much intensity, agony, beauty and love just to give birth is insane.’
‘I can’t say how much I respect this woman,’ he added.
Chloe went on to reveal that she has been struggling with postpartum depression and asked people to respect her space as she ‘heals’.
‘This is my story of the birth of our baby. It might not meet everyone’s criteria for an ideal birth, but it was scary and extremely beautiful to me and to Paul,’ she added.
‘I’m just not in a place to receive advice and feedback on what I should or should not have done at this point.
‘The trauma of pushing was just hectic and the moment I held our little daughter on my chest for the first time, nothing else mattered.’
Chloe revealed she has been struggling with postpartum depression and asked people to respect her space as she ‘heals’
Just two weeks after welcoming their daughter Bobbi, Fisher had to jet off to Europe to continue his international tour, which had been pre-booked long in advance.
The Grammy-nominated star is currently performing across the US and Europe, and is next set to travel to Toronto, London and Germany, before heading to Las Vegas.
He has a string of shows booked until the end of the year while Chloe is remaining in Australia to look after their daughter Bobbi.
Fisher previously said he hopes to bring Bobbi and Chloe on his travels with him as soon as possible as he showed his support for his new family.
