{"id":222208,"date":"2026-01-01T19:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T19:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/222208\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T19:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T19:58:11","slug":"louise-thompson-reveals-she-wants-another-baby-in-2026-as-she-shares-hopes-to-expand-her-family-after-almost-dying-during-traumatic-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/222208\/","title":{"rendered":"Louise Thompson reveals she wants another baby in 2026 as she shares hopes to ‘expand her family’ after almost dying during traumatic birth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Louise Thompson<\/a> has shared that she wants another baby in 2026 after almost dying with the traumatic birth of her first child.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The former Made In Chelsea<\/a> 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’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

And Louise has spoken candidly about how she struggled being a mother as she recovered from the trauma of the birth.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However on New Year’s Eve Louise shared that she is hoping to ‘expand her family’\u00a0<\/p>\n

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.’<\/p>\n

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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<\/p>\n

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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’<\/p>\n

The star also teased her upcoming Substack post which will be published on Saturday titled: ‘all I want for 2026 is a baby’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Louise was placed on suicide watch due to being ‘mentally checked out’ following the traumatic birth of Leo.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And last year her\u00a0fianc\u00e9 Ryan Libbey revealed heartbreaking details of her battle with postpartum depression<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking on an episode of Giovanna Fletcher’s Happy Mum Happy Baby podcast<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n

‘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.<\/p>\n

‘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.’<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

‘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.<\/p>\n

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The star also teased her upcoming Substack post which will be published on Saturday titled: ‘all I want for 2026 is a baby’<\/p>\n

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The teaser image for the upcoming Substack is a page detailing IVF\u00a0<\/p>\n

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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’<\/p>\n

‘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.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

It comes after Louise was forced to spend her Christmas<\/a> Eve in hospital amid her ongoing health battle and thanked the NHS<\/a> for their help.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Last week she gave fans an update as she shared a snap of herself in a hospital gown, writing:\u00a0‘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’<\/p>\n

‘Still bloody awkward and a tiny bit uncomfortable but fentanyl is a wonder drug.’<\/p>\n

In another picture shared on her stories, Louise was seen with a nasal cannula on her face and inserted into her nostrils.<\/p>\n

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.’<\/p>\n

The TV personality sang the praises of the NHS, thanking them for ‘running in full swing’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘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.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘The NHS never sleeps,’ Louise continued in the next following Instagram story.<\/p>\n

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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\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The TV personality sang the praises of the NHS, thanking them for ‘running in full swing’<\/p>\n

‘I had a proctoscope today. A nice little Christmas Eve camera up my bum.<\/p>\n

‘The NHS was still running in full swing. Well not quite, but you know what I mean.<\/p>\n

‘It prompted me to say a big thank you to everyone that is working as part of the NHS over the bank holidays.’<\/p>\n

‘Thanks for keeping the country ticking along and for keeping our loved ones alive,’ the former actress concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Louise Thompson has shared that she wants another baby in 2026 after almost dying with the traumatic birth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[539,93,61,60,1489],"class_list":["post-222208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-dailymail","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tvshowbiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}