Glenda: I got a bolt from the baby blues...
Gilson reveals her first born son didn’t take to his little brother
GLENDA Gilson said she struggled with baby blues because her first son didn’t take to his little brother.
The Virgin Media presenter, 39, and husband Rob Mcnaughton, 44, welcomed Danny in October.
Lifting the lid on how she has been adjusting to her expanding family, Glenda, who is also mum to two-yearold Bobby said: “I didn’t get down with Bobby at all so I wasn’t expecting to get emotional and teary when Danny arrived.
“I think it was because he was giving me such a hard time. He kept saying, ‘Baby down, baby down’.
“He didn’t want me to have Danny in my arms at all and he didn’t take to him when we came home. So that kind of affected me.
“But thankfully Rob and my mum were brilliant and were able to give me time every day to sit on the ground with Bobby and play. But we have to watch him like a hawk.”
Speaking to VIP Magazine, Glenda added: “He’ll go over to the crib and say ‘hug hug’ but the hugs are a bit of a squeeze – and you’re afraid of your life.
“Or he puts his head in to give him a kiss with a hard plastic dinosaur toy in his hand. It’s just that Danny is so new and tiny,”
Due to the Covid-19 restrictions, Danny’s birth was very different to what she experienced when she welcomed Bobby to the world.
And Glenda recalled not having Rob at her side for the whole experience made it hard.
She said: “It was hard. Rob would drive me up and wait outside, even he felt out of touch. And going into labour was tough.
“Rob pretty much dropped me at the door and handed my bag to a security guard and said goodbye.
“I rang him at one point when I was going through contractions in a corridor on my own feeling upset.
“But the minute things really kicked off he was in, masked up, and then he was able to stay while I had the baby, and he could stay for an hour after – and then he went home
“I was thankful it was my second time round.
“I do feel sorry for first-time mothers going in alone. But look, the staff are incredible and us women are incredible, we can get through anything.”
But urging any pregnant mothers not to fret about the situation, the former Xpose presenter said: “I would like to reassure all pregnant mothers that it will be fine.”
As Danny arrived three months in the grip of the pandemic, he has yet to be formally introduced to anyone outside their immediate family.
Since their return home, they’ve been settling into life as a family of four, enjoying the precious moments in their own bubble.
Glenda said: “You are in a bit of a bubble and you are home a lot in the early days.
“But you can’t show your baby off – no one has met Danny, only my family.
“I have to show him off on Instagram.”
Bobby was giving me a hard time & kept saying, ‘baby down, baby down’ GLENDA GILSON
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