Kailyn Lowry talks about her experience with child no. 5.
The pregnant podcaster, 31, sat down with boyfriend Elijah Scott for a new episode of her Hardly known podcast, where the two discussed the birth of son Rio last year.
The two remember sitting down after dinner only for Lowry to go into labor, a month before her due date. When she arrived at the hospital with Scott, her baby was given a “biophysical” in which the unborn child “scheduled every last part.”
“So that was the deciding factor that they were going to increase the process by speeding things up. I don’t know how I feel about that now,” Lowry admits, saying she felt very anxious during the process. “I never experienced increased labor and that was a big part of it, too.”
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Kailyn Lowry with her children, Isaac, Lincoln, Lux and Creed.
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Lowry says she was in labor around 5pm when it was time to push. “I remember they asked you if you were ready to start pushing and you said ‘Yes,'” Scott recalls. “And how did you say two minutes passed and he was here.”
Scott laughs, calling Rio “Mr. Rocket.” Lowry then asks him to explain why he didn’t cry when the boy was born.
“You have to tell the podcast listeners what you told me, because when I first asked you why, I didn’t want to bother you about it,” she says. “I didn’t mean to upset you and I didn’t mean to upset myself, but I couldn’t wrap my head around it. Why weren’t you crying?”
Scott explains, “The reason is when it came out, they said [his breathing] it was hard to find. They took him to a tiny baby stand and he was barely breathing and had fluid in his lungs.”
“I’m worried about him and you’re here crying asking me if he’s okay. And I say, ‘Yeah, he’s okay’.”
“But he wasn’t well,” Lowry interjects, to which Scott replies, “No, but I’m trying to keep you calm and I’m still trying to take care of him. It’s kind of traumatic.”
Lowry also says she only recently looked at the birth photos because it was “completely traumatizing” for her.
“When they took him to the incubator, there were eight or nine nurses working on him,” she says. “And I didn’t know what was happening. We didn’t hear anything. He wasn’t breathing and they kept saying he wasn’t breathing, so I said, ‘Okay, this is close to death.’ ”
Scott disagrees that it’s a “near death” situation, but agrees that it was concerning that Rio “didn’t cry” for days. When Lowry was in a meeting with his medical team and discussed her concerns about it, Scott’s mom came in and reported that he had finally cried.”
“And I lost it. It was like I lost it. I just thought it was really weird because I know they do stimulation and things like that to help the baby cry. I thought if they weren’t crying something else was wrong. It could have been something else unrelated to the other health problems he had.”
Lowry also reveals that she was unable to see her child for 12 hours due to concerns that the stress would cause preeclampsia.
“I had four children before that and I didn’t know you could get preeclampsia after giving birth,” she says.
And while she was still learning things when it came to baby no. 5, also said that Scott was no stranger to children himself, explaining that he helped raise his niece, who was born when he was 14. The conversation then turned to how Lowry’s older boys got involved.
Of son Isaac, 13, she jokes, “He might be tired of having kids, but he’s not tired of helping out.”
“Lux will fight to help,” she continues. “He wants to make bottles. We’re getting ready for bed and he says, ‘Just let me make a bottle.’ And they can make a bottle five times faster, but sometimes you just have to let them help because they’re asking.”
“The biggest thing for me right now is that I don’t want my other children to be the responsibility of their older siblings,” he concludes.
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