Kate Ferdinand plans to undergo a caesarean section with her second kid after having a difficult birth with her first son.
The reality actress, 31, and her footballer husband, Rio Ferdinand, 44, revealed their second child together earlier this year.
Their happy news means that their family is growing even larger, as the couple has a two-year-old son named Cree, who was born in December 2020.
Kate is also the stepmother to Rio’s three children, Tate, 13, Lorenz, 15, and Tia, 11, whom he shares with his late wife, Rebecca Ellison, who died in 2015.
The former Towie actress is more prepared for her second child, since she battled mentally after Cree was born.
Kate previously confessed that she “cried every single day for five weeks” and suffered from severe anxiety.
Thus, she’s hopeful her next birth ‘may be simpler’, considering how her last ‘went awry’.
‘I’m having a C-section because I had an emergency one last time, and that’s fine,’ Kate said Zoe Blaskey on the Motherkind podcast.
‘Last time, I had an emergency C-section, and I had all the way pushing and then it went wrong.
‘I’ve kind of had both births [already]… I think I know what I’m doing and I’m hopeful that it might be easier.’
She told Fabulous last year that, while her husband was her support, she felt disappointed after becoming a mother.
She was so depressed that she couldn’t take Cree up from his cot and found it difficult to change his diapers.
‘You expect to be doing everything you possibly can for your baby and when you can’t… It was something I really struggled with,’ she recalled.
‘I was in my own little world, I felt really confused and had lots of anxiety and I didn’t think anyone understood.’
Yet, she found that talking about her sentiments helped her overcome them, and she encouraged other new mothers to do the same.
Kate’s C-section news comes after she and Rio revealed they are expecting a girl.
She’s expressed appreciation for being pregnant again after losing a pregnancy last year, while the worry of miscarrying again lingers.
The expectant mother-to-be said on her Blended podcast that she is being more ‘careful’ this time around.
Kate also stated that she felt ‘ungrateful’ for moaning about pregnant side effects the previous time, and she is attempting to do it less again.