Singer Meghan Trainor Suffered PTSD After The Birth Of Her Son

Updated: June 11, 2024 | Published By: Radha Sharma | In Child , Pregnant | Published On April 23, 2023

Source: EOnline

Meghan Trainor has revealed she suffered from PTSD after the birth of her son.
She has shared her traumatic birth story in an excerpt from her new book, Dear Future Mama.

Meghan Trainor has revealed she suffered from PTSD after the birth of her son

Meghan Trainor is opening up about the experience of giving birth to her son Riley via cesarean section in 2021 with her husband, Daryl Sabara.

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Her child Riley had difficulty breathing and had to spend several days in the NICU before being discharged.

Trainor also reveals that she was diagnosed with PTSD after the birth, as she was left alone on the surgical table while her husband rushed with their baby to the NICU. The singer discusses all of this in her upcoming book, Dear Future Mama.

Meghan Trainor and her husband Daryl Sabara — Trainor and her husband Daryl Sabara (Source: The US Sun)

She told PEOPLE:

“Usually when you’re being sewn up for 45 minutes, you’re like, ‘Look at my gorgeous baby. We did it. This is everything.’ But I was laying there alone.”

She added:

“In the moment, I was so drugged up, I was calling my mom, and she’s crying on the phone, like, ‘Are you okay?’ And I was like, ‘We’re fine.’ And then when I tell people what happened, they’re like, ‘Jesus Christ,’ and I’m like, ‘Yeah, that was kind of messed up, right?’ “

Trainor realized after returning home that something was wrong after she started having nightmares and flashbacks to the C-section.

“I couldn’t go to sleep at night. I would be in tears and tell Daryl, ‘I’m still on that table, dude. I’m trapped there. I can’t remind myself I’m in bed and I’m safe at home. I had to learn how traumatic it was.”

She later went to therapy and recalls the therapist telling her:

“So, you know how you cry every night when you go to bed and you feel the pain, even though there’s no pain left, and it comes back to you? It’s chemical reactions in your brain. Something’s off, and we have to open that up and heal that wound.”

Trainor revealed that she worked through it with therapy.

“Time heals all.”

Also read: Meghan Trainor and husband Daryl Sabara have a Baby no. 2 on the way

Trainor is now welcoming her second baby

Meghan Trainor confirmed that she was expecting her second baby with husband Daryl Sabara in January 2023. She was four months into pregnancy at the time.

She told PEOPLE:

“What a blessing. I’m just so grateful I can get pregnant. And I’m like, ‘I’m crushing it. This is amazing. This is my dreams.’ I’m halfway there — I want four kids!”
Trainor is now expecting her second baby after Riley (Source: EOnline)

The couple welcomed their son Riley in February 2021. She also talked about how they try to tell him she has a baby in her belly:

“We try to tell him, ‘There’s a baby in the belly,’ but then he points to his belly now and is like, ‘Baby.’ And we’re like, ‘Oh no, it’s not in yours — it’s in Mama’s belly!'”

Trainor also described how this pregnancy was different than her first:

“I had no symptoms with Riley to the point where I was like, ‘We need to go to the doctor. There’s nothing in me.’ I got my symptoms late in my pregnancy with Riley.”

She added:

“I got them a right away with this baby. I got red perioral dermatitis all over my face. I was sick, my boobies were aching. This one was a ride. It was a rocky ride, but luckily it was during the holidays, so I could just chill and lay down. I pee every 20 minutes, and I’m fully out of breath just from talking. It’s great.”

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