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29th January 2018
11:32am GMT
She joined Lorraine on her show to chat about her experience and how she was on bed rest for the remainder of her pregnancy to keep her baby safe. After repeated visits to the hospital, she said she took one day at a time, with the constant worry that she would lose the baby. She said:A post shared by Jamelia (@officialjamelia) on
"Being the mother of two older daughters and having that happen, I didn’t for a second think that meant your pregnancy could continue, that you could still carry the baby, I was astonished. When your waters break you could go into labour within the hour and that’s how I was treated, they told me that the baby could come any day now, so I was given steroids, I’ve been repeatedly hospitalised, there are so many problems that come along with that happening. I was on monitoring twice a week at the hospital and every time they were like, ‘You’re really lucky if you get to tomorrow.’ It was literally one day at a time, I was on 100% bed rest. It was a very scary time for all of us, and to get to 36 weeks was just... I mean they keep calling my daughter a miracle baby, and she really, really is.”Thinking back to when her waters first broke, she said:
"When my waters first broke they said to me, ‘Unfortunately you’re going to have to prepare for the worst, this baby is coming and there is nothing we can do about it.’ And the next morning I saw a consultant and he said, ‘Look remain positive, surround yourself with positivity, concentrate on good things, act as if you’re going to have the baby, not as if you’re going to lose the baby. And I believe that’s what worked.”She decided to quit social media while she looked after her baby and herself. With the help of her two daughters, her family and her husband, she was able to carry the baby until the right time for her to go into labour. She welcomed her little baby on December 13.
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