Serena Williams had a terrifying childbirth experience with her firstborn, Olympia . The tennis pro, who is married to Alexis Ohanian was forced into an emergency C-section after Olympia’s heart rate dropped during contractions. Thankfully, Olympia was safe, but Serena nearly died after complications.
After such a terrifying experience, Serena handled her second child, Adira's Glamour for Women of the Year, the 43-year-old opened up about her two experiences with childbirth. Emergency C-sections are scary enough, but Serena was diagnosed with a pulmonary embolism, a life-threatening blockage in a lung artery caused by a blood clot that had traveled from elsewhere in the body. Then, her surgical wound opened, and when she returned to surgery, doctors found a hematoma, which is a collection of blood that pools outside of blood vessels.
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I like to say I put my best effort out there, and this was no different," she sa.
