Louise Thompson admits she FORGETS she’s had a baby as she struggles with PTSD after horrific birth
LOUISE Thompson says she has experienced times where’s she forgotten she had a baby during her ongoing health struggles.
The Made In Chelsea star, 32, was diagnosed with PTSD after suffering complications while giving birth to her son Leo-Hunter with her partner Ryan Libbey late last year.
Louise recently revealed she had ‘forgotten’ she had a baby asked her fans if that made her a ‘terrible human.’
Posing for a full-length mirror selfie in a white crop top and dark flaired leggings, Louise made the confession on her Instagram stories.
“Some things are out of my control, some things are in my control,” she wrote.
“Getting up, showering, makeup and getting dressed are all on automation now for a second I actually forgot I had a baby.
“Does that make me a terrible human?”
Louise then shared an adorable selfie with baby Leo where the pair of them were smiling at the camera.
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“Gonna be honest, bricking it about the day ahead, feel like one step forward with my recovery then a leap back,” she explained.
“Coming down of my steroids is leaving me with NO energy. Maybe swimming wasn’t such a good idea.”
She added of baby Leo: “This guy look super cute though.”
Last week, Louise had fans concerned for her well-being again after another hospital visit.
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She shared a picture of herself in a bed with her arm hooked up to a drip, hours after revealing she had been “going in and out of consciousness”.
However, in reassuring posts hours later, Louise made it home for dinner and bath time with son Leo.
The reality star, who has been experiencing severe health issues since Leo’s birth last year, said she was “on the edge” yesterday after changing the dosage of her prescribed medication.
Louise nearly died twice during labour and was diagnosed with PTSD after the ordeal.
She has been admitted to hospital twice in the months since and is undergoing therapy, while also taking medication to treat her anxiety.
Her son Leo-Hunter had been treated in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and she was kept in the adult ICU after his birth.
On Christmas Day, she shared a heartfelt post in which she paid tribute to the NHS staff who “worked through the night to save my life”.
Earlier this week she sobbed as she revealed in her darkest moments she forgot that she had a son.
She also said she had gone temporarily blind and “my brain shut down”.
The reality TV star added there had been times she had wished that airplanes would crash into her house and could not think about anything “except death”.
“I was scared of everything in my house… I couldn’t see, couldn’t smell, couldn’t talk… when I would talk I would panic because every word that came out of my mouth didn’t make sense,” she said.
“I was not alive, I couldn’t have a normal thought. My brain basically shut down.
“When something really traumatic happens your brain can’t process it properly… and it means you live in fear.”
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The TV star appeared in Made In Chelsea’s first series in 2011, progressing to become one of the E4 show’s main characters, while partner Libbey joined the cast in 2016 during filming in the south of France.
The couple became engaged in 2018 after he proposed during a hiking trip in Los Angeles.