When Brooke Vincent suggested to Gemma Atkinson she should hire a private midwife for her second pregnancy, Gemma agreed she'd benefit from extra support
When Gemma Atkinson gave birth to her first baby Mia she needed an emergency C-section and then suffered a scary postpartum haemorrhage as her partner Gorka Márquez anxiously looked on. So when baby Thiago Thomas Márquez was born, Gemma wanted things to be different and decided to hire her own private midwife to monitor the pregnancy and help after the baby was born.
“I was more confused than traumatised,” explains Gemma. “I was in labour for two days, then after the C-section, I ended up having a postpartum haemorrhage. Mia was tiny and I thought, ‘Why did I really bleed out so much after what happened?’” “I can deal with pain. I wouldn’t mind if I was bleeding myself, but when the person you love is bleeding and they’re gone, you’re like ‘No!’,” he explains, full of emotion.
Gemma is especially grateful to have a bit of extra expertise, as Gorka is required to go back to work seven days after Thiago was born. “We’ve been lucky to have this week all together. Mia was two days old when Gorka went on tour,” she says. For Spanish Gorka, 32, leaving is clearly a wrench. With the clock ticking until his departure, he noticeably doesn’t put Thiago down once during our interview. However, he admits there is one silver lining to going away. “It’s hard work, but at least I’ll get to sleep every night!” he grins.
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