Louise Thompson admits she was ‘triggered by babies’ for a long time and says she’ll ‘never carry another child’ following her traumatic labour

Louise Thompson has admitted she was ‘triggered by babies’ for a long time following her traumatic childbirth with son Leo.

The former Made In Chelsea star, 34, nearly died while giving birth and spent a month in intensive care with ‘serious complications’ while her son Leo, two, had been treated in the adult ICU after the birth.

With plans to extend her family in the future, Louise has spoke of the difficulties, admitting she will ‘never carry another child’.

She told Grazia: ‘For a long time I was so triggered by babies – I couldn’t look at people’s babies and pregnancy announcements and those sorts of things. 

‘The tricky thing for us is that this just isn’t really possible in the conventional way because I’m not going to carry another child. I really wanted to freeze my eggs and some embryos last year, but I was overcoming by stoma surgery for a good chunk and then that was then when I started to feel really well. 

‘And I feel like I slightly missed the boat but I can’t put the blame on myself because there wasn’t really an appropriate time before I started taking a bit of a dip again.’

Louise Thompson, 34, has admitted she was ‘triggered by babies’ for a long time following her traumatic childbirth with son Leo

The Made In Chelsea star nearly died while giving birth and spent a month in intensive care with ‘serious complications’ while Leo, 2, had been treated in the adult ICU after the birth

Louise endured an agonising labour that culminated in an emergency caesarean.

Medics took three hours to staunch a haemorrhage, during which she lost three-and-a-half litres of blood, more than three quarters of her body’s volume. She later found out it was because her womb had torn.

After five days, mother and son were discharged, only for Louise to haemorrhage at home two days later. 

This time it took four hours to stop the bleeding and she lost five litres of blood, requiring several transfusions.

In the aftermath she suffered severe post-traumatic stress disorder that left her struggling even to look at Leo, let alone engage with him. She begged her fiancé Ryan Libbey at the time for ‘a pill to end it all’. 

Louise has been in and out of hospital ever since being diagnosed with ulcerative colitis in 2018.

Ulcerative colitis is a chronic bowel condition where the colon and rectum become inflamed and small ulcers develop on the colon’s lining, which can bleed. The condition has no cure, but can be effectively managed with time.

In a post to mark Crohn’s and Colitis Awareness Week, Louise detailed her struggles with the condition since her diagnosis and wrote about her ‘tough time’.

With plans to extend her family in the future, Louise has spoke of the difficulties, admitting she will ‘never carry another child’ (pictured with her fiancé Ryan Libbey and their son Leo)

She said: ‘For a long time I was so triggered by babies – I couldn’t look at people’s babies and pregnancy announcements and those sorts of things. The tricky thing for us is that this just isn’t really possible in the conventional way because I’m not going to carry another child’

Louise has been in and out of hospital ever since being diagnosed with ulcerative colitis in 2018

In the aftermath she suffered severe post-traumatic stress disorder that left her struggling even to look at Leo, let alone engage with him

She bravely opened up about how her symptoms became worse amid her mental health struggles because she didn’t ‘really care if she died’.

Another haemorrhage followed a few months later. 

In December 2022, Louise revealed she had been diagnosed with Lupus – one of the chronic autoimmune conditions, where the body makes antibodies against itself and starts to attack it. 

The TV personality held back her tears as she explained ‘constantly navigating’ her different health issues has left her wanting to cry.

Just one month later, Louise revealed she had undergone a ‘small operation’ amid her gruelling battle with Asherman’s Syndrome.

Asherman’s Syndrome is a condition where scar tissue form inside your uterus. The scar tissue can build up, decreasing the amount of open space making some women infertile

Meanwhile, she was still suffering from the chronic bowel disease ulcerative colitis. In January last year, after months of diarrhoea requiring ’18 to 20 trips to the loo’ each day, crippling pain and excreting blood, she had her colon removed. 

The first that Louise’s 1.4million Instagram followers knew of this, when she posted an image of herself with a grey pouch attached to her stomach, commenting ‘Hey, look I’ve got a stoma!’

Louise regularly documents her ongoing health battles in candid posts shared to fans, and Ryan has revealed how his mental health suffered watching Louise in such pain. 

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