Welcome to the world, Drew Hazel East!
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The Easts announced their new arrival on Monday, after firstrevealing they were expectingin April (one year after Johnson East revealedshe’d suffered a miscarriage) with a sweet Instagram photo shoot.
“At 14 hours when I chose to get an epidural I felt guilty,” she continued. “At22 hours when we were told I had to get a c sectionI felt like I had failed. But after holding our sweet girl in my arms and being told everything went well and she had made it to us safely I [couldn’t] have cared less.”
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Shortly before giving birth, Johnson East recorded an episode ofJamie OtisandDoug Hehner‘sHot Marriage. Cool Parentspodcast, where she opened up about losing her first pregnancy two years ago and how she blamed herself at first even though the doctor told her right out the gate that the miscarriage was not her fault.
And the guilt went even further than just short-term actions Johnson East thought could’ve caused the loss. In her mind, the blame went as far back as her gymnastics years,when she competed as a child and teenagerbefore retiring from the sport in 2012, at the age of 20.
“I had had testing done and blood work done and [doctors] said everything was good, which was a good reassurance. But again, at that time ofmiscarriage, I couldn’t help but thinkI did enough damage to my body at a young age that it was almost, like, payback,” she said.
source: people.com
