Louise Thompson has shared that she wants another baby in 2026 after almost dying with the traumatic birth of her first child.
The former Made In Chelsea star, 35, nearly died when she welcomed Leo-Hunter in 2021 after a emergency caesarean in which she lost ’12 and a half litres of blood’.
She went on to suffer with PTSD and post-natal anxiety due to her near-death experience and has since been diagnosed with Lupus, Asherman’s syndrome, suffered a second Hemorrhage, and has also had a stoma bag fitted.
And Louise has spoken candidly about how she struggled being a mother as she recovered from the trauma of the birth.
However on New Year’s Eve Louise shared that she is hoping to ‘expand her family’
She wrote: ‘next year is going to be full of health, growth and prosperity. I’m ready for newness and if we are lucky family expansion.’
Louise Thompson has revealed she wants another baby in 2026 as she shared her hopes to ‘expand her family’ to Instagram after almost dying during traumatic birth
She wrote: ‘next year is going to be full of health, growth and prosperity. I’m ready for newness and if we are lucky family expansion’
The star also teased her upcoming Substack post which will be published on Saturday titled: ‘all I want for 2026 is a baby’.
Louise was placed on suicide watch due to being ‘mentally checked out’ following the traumatic birth of Leo.
And last year her fiancé Ryan Libbey revealed heartbreaking details of her battle with postpartum depression.
Speaking on an episode of Giovanna Fletcher’s Happy Mum Happy Baby podcast, Ryan, 34, shared: ‘We even had a crisis-management team come very regularly, which – to be really honest with you – was a suicide watch because she was so mentally checked out.
‘Which is absolutely terrifying, and I don’t think I’ve quite processed that one. I think that was something that I wanted to reframe straight away.
‘It’s really, really sad to know that Louise was hurting like that and she couldn’t, and I suppose I didn’t really understand what was happening.’
He continued: ‘I could understand that she was in shock and that she was completely reduced to a version of herself that was… she was just surrendering to the whole thing.
‘She’d lost the fight, and I could understand it because she would have been exhausted and her body would have been looking and feeling so different.
The star also teased her upcoming Substack post which will be published on Saturday titled: ‘all I want for 2026 is a baby’
Louise, 35, nearly died when she welcomed Leo-Hunter in 2021 after a emergency caesarean in which she lost ’12 and a half litres of blood’
‘And to lie on the sofa with a vacant look on your face for days and weeks, I could understand that, but I couldn’t understand that we were in the place of potential: she wants to end her life, and she doesn’t really recognise or care for the baby in the room. At the time, I couldn’t quite understand that.’
It comes after Louise was forced to spend her Christmas Eve in hospital amid her ongoing health battle and thanked the NHS for their help.
Last week she gave fans an update as she shared a snap of herself in a hospital gown, writing: ‘Looks dramatic but it wasn’t. I had a proctoscopy today. It’s like a colonoscopy but not as invasive because I don’t have a colon so there isn’t very far the camera can go’
‘Still bloody awkward and a tiny bit uncomfortable but fentanyl is a wonder drug.’
In another picture shared on her stories, Louise was seen with a nasal cannula on her face and inserted into her nostrils.
She continued: ‘These appointments are so important and they managed to fit me in quite urgently so I jumped at the offering of a 24th December date, then when it came around I realised the magnitude of it being Christmas Eve.’
The TV personality sang the praises of the NHS, thanking them for ‘running in full swing’.
‘Despite all the chaos of what I’ve been through, I still think we are incredibly lucky to have the NHS which NEVER clocks off in case of emergencies,’ she said.
‘The NHS never sleeps,’ Louise continued in the next following Instagram story.
It comes after Louise was forced to spend her Christmas Eve in hospital amid her ongoing health battle and thanked the NHS for their help
The TV personality sang the praises of the NHS, thanking them for ‘running in full swing’
‘I had a proctoscope today. A nice little Christmas Eve camera up my bum.
‘The NHS was still running in full swing. Well not quite, but you know what I mean.
‘It prompted me to say a big thank you to everyone that is working as part of the NHS over the bank holidays.’
‘Thanks for keeping the country ticking along and for keeping our loved ones alive,’ the former actress concluded.
