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Olivia Bowen has revealed husband Alex has undergone a vasectomy after the couple decided to not have any more children following the traumatic birth of daughter Siena.
The Love Island star, 32, shares the six-month-old tot as well as son Abel, three, with with her husband, 34, whom she wed in 2018 after meeting on the reality show.
Olivia said she could ‘never go through childbirth again’ after nearly dying as a result of losing litres of blood during the delivery last year.
Speaking in October on her ITV2 reality show Olivia & Alex: Parenthood, she broke down in tears as she recalled suffering a major haemorrhage during her C-section.
Now in a new interview, Olivia said: ‘We are absolutely done. Alex had a vasectomy the other day, so no more kids for us’.
‘There were a lot of reasons – personal ones, environmental ones, external ones, but ultimately we just feel complete now’.
Olivia Bowen has revealed husband Alex has undergone a vasectomy after the couple decided to not have any more children following the traumatic birth of daughter Siena
She went on to tell The Sun: ‘We’re lucky enough to have two and I think what happened with Siena’s twin made me think: “I just can’t do that again”‘.
A vasectomy, or male sterilisation, is a procedure to cut the tubes that carry a man’s sperm to permanently prevent pregnancy without further contraception.
It can usually be done under local anaesthetic and takes about 15 minutes, according to the NHS.
The reality star has been very open about her health anxiety after ‘nearly dying’ when she gave birth to her daughter in August.
On her reality show viewers saw Olivia attempting a home birth with a birthing pool before she began to struggle so much with the pain that they had to call an ambulance to rush her to hospital.
She said: ‘We had a plan but it didn’t come off. I felt something that didn’t feel right. I was only 5cm dilated after 10 hours but I was determined to push through, I then felt a lump in my vagina and we made the decision to go to hospital.’
She revealed that ‘my bladder had fallen down into my cervix and was obstructing the exit for the baby’ meaning she had to have a c-section.
‘I was really scared, it’s a surgery and it’s a big thing and it’s not the easy way out,’ she said. ‘She came out crying which was incredible and beautiful and I had her on my face and I started to feel dizzy.
‘The nurse started calling out how much blood I was losing and all I could hear was 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 and it was going up and up quickly and the fear sunk in really quickly, it was really scary.’
Breaking down in tears, she said: ‘They started yelling, major haemorrhage across all the surgery room and that’s all I remember.
‘There was doctors in and out and no one was telling me what was going on. I felt so sick and dizzy and Alex said the blood just drained from me.
Olivia said she could ‘never go through childbirth again’ after nearly dying in child birth last year (Pictured with six-month-old daughter Siena and son Abel, three)
‘I remember thinking don’t close your eyes because I thought I’d pass out or even worse. It was very close.
‘I ended up losing 2.8 litres of blood and you only have 4.5 litres so the blood loss… to feel that you are that close to losing your life, was very very scary.’
Olivia continued by thanking the NHS for ‘saving her life’ and explained that she ‘feels so lucky’ to be alive.
She said: ‘The doctors were absolutely incredible. The NHS were amazing, they saved my life.’
While she said that she had now ‘processed’ to terrifying ordeal, her husband Alex admitted he was ‘traumatised’.
Olivia told him: ‘I feel like I’ve processed it, we got through 20 hours of labour at home, I think you were more traumatised.’
Alex agreed, adding: ‘Yeah its the worse thing I’ve ever seen and never want to go through it again.’
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