Myleene: I am a mother of seven... but I lost four through miscarriages
MYLEENE Klass yesterday spoke of her heartache at suffering four miscarriages before giving birth to her latest child.
The presenter said losing the first baby was ‘nothing short of traumatic’ and the second was ‘torture’.
Following the four tragic pregnancies, she gave birth to ‘miracle’ son Apollo in August last year – her first child with fiance Simon Motson.
Miss Klass also has daughters Ava, 13, and Hero, nine, with her ex-husband Graham Quinn. She said yesterday: ‘I am Mama to seven babies, Ava, Hero, Apollo my rainbow baby and four little stars in the sky.’
The 42-year-old said she had lost one of the babies while away on holiday
‘The saddest sight I’ve ever seen’
and another while she was at work. And she described a scan of the first unborn child as ‘the saddest sight I’ve ever seen in my life’.
Posting photos on Instagram of her baby bumps when she was still carrying two of the unborn children, she wrote: ‘I know after my own [miscarriages] how I scoured the internet for stories similar to mine for peace, reassurance. I hope this helps even one lost soul.’
Of her first miscarriage, she said: ‘As the doctor pushed the camera on my belly, the familiar black and blue image of my baby sprung on to the screen, then started to sink and slowly floated down, till it just hunched over.
‘I knew. [They said,] “I’m sorry there’s no heartbeat”. The feeling is nothing short of traumatic, shock.’ The Smooth Radio host then had to undergo a medical procedure common for women who have just miscarried, adding: ‘I cried so hard the nurse held my hand.’
Miss Klass said she ‘woke to emptiness and the horror of what had happened’ and was left feeling like ‘I’d failed my baby and my partner’.
Her second unborn child stopped growing at ten weeks for reasons unrelated to her first miscarriage.
She continued: ‘Walking past the pregnant women in reception was torture... In fact, the familiarity of it cut deeper. The “wishes to dispose of the products of pregnancy” form, the walking to theatre, the ugly socks. ‘Having everything one minute, a name, a school, then nothing. The third, I miscarried at work. The fourth, the loo. Whilst I could get pregnant, there was no explanation for why I couldn’t keep them.’ However, she now has baby Apollo. She added: ‘He signifies everything good in the world to me, my miracle.’ Miss Klass said she wanted to reveal her story to mark International Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day yesterday.