“I just felt so much shame.”
Meghan Trainor has admitted that she felt “so much shame” following the birth of her son after nurses made a comment that he was born “asleep” due to her antidepressants.
Speaking about her new book Dear Future Mama on Today with Hoda & Jenna, the All About That Bass singer said she wrote heavily about mental health as it was a huge debate while she was pregnant on her first child.
Meghan shares her son Riley with husband Daryl Sabara and the couple are currently expecting their second child.
The 29 year old recalled a massive debate that was had during her pregnancy over whether she wanted to stay on her antidepressants, saying she felt “so much shame”.
Meghan recalled nurses implying that the reason Riley was born “sleepy” may have been because she chose to keep taking the medication while pregnant.
“It was a big debate, do I stay on my antidepressants or not? It was very safe, I got it approved by all my doctors, but my first OBGYN, this guy was like, ‘Oh you can throw those candies away,’ ” Meghan told co-hosts Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager. “I was like devastated.
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“[Riley] came out asleep, and that’s what they literally called it, he’s ‘sleepy.’ And I was like, ‘Wake him up, like what do you mean?’
“Some people were like, ‘Oh it’s because you were on your antidepressants.'”
“My doctors, I called them and was like, ‘You said nothing would happen!’ And they said there’s no science that backs that up, they’re just pointing fingers,” she continued. “I just felt so much shame, I just had a crazy surgery and I’m on all these drugs and I feel miserable and to get pointed at to say it’s your fault that your kid’s asleep.”
“My doctor who did the C-section was like, ‘C-sections are gnarly like the baby had trauma coming out. It happens all the time, it’s unpredictable and you did nothing wrong’.”
Riley was born via C-Section and after some breathing issues, he spent several days in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
Meghan was then diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder due to this as when Riley was rushed away, she was left needing surgery following her section.
