Naomi Osaka says she doesn't want many more kids because giving birth was 'traumatic'

Naomi Osaka says she doesn't want "many more" kids because giving birth was a traumatizing experience. Osaka welcomed her first child, Shai, in July 2023 with her partner, rapper Cordae. Naomi Osaka , 26, doesn't plan on having "many more" kids because she had a traumatizing experience giving birth to her daughter.

The tennis player posted a video on her TikTok account on Sunday, responding to a comment questioning whether she was pregnant and wishing her many more kids. "I just wanna say, I'm not preggos, but if I was, I wouldn't want many more because giving birth was traumatic. But thank you, though, for your blessings," Osaka said in her video, which has been viewed almost 60,000 times.

Osaka welcomed her first child — a daughter named Shai — in July 2023 with her partner, rapper Cordae. She has previously spoken about her complicated pregnancy and labor experience. In a December interview with InStyle , Osaka revealed that she had tested positive for Group B streptococcus — a bacteria that can cause stillbirths , or newborns to have sepsis or meningitis — while pregnant.

She shared that she even wrote a will before going into labor. "I don't think people know how hard pregnancy is; no one really talks about it as much," Osaka told InStyle. "Going into it, you kind of think: Oh, it's this beautiful journey.

But it's kind of rough." She also told the outlet that her labor experience took over 12 hours, and the umbilical cord was wrapped around her baby's neck. "I d.