Sofia Richie, the youngest daughter of singer-songwriter Lionel Richie, opened up about her pregnancy and postpartum experience after giving birth to her first child, Eloise, in May. “I had a great pregnancy up until about 32 weeks,” Richie told co-hosts Dr. Thais Aliabadi, of whom Richie is a patient, and Mary Alice Haney, before sharing what she texted Aliabadi one morning, “Hey, I woke up and I’m really tired today.
My back really hurts. I feel a little crampy.” “And I really thought it was going to be another one of those like, ‘Yeah, babe, that’s pregnancy.
You’re going to be fine, but you can come in if you want me to check you,’ type situations,” she said. Instead, Richie recalls Dr. Aliabadi saying, “‘You know what? Actually, I think you should go see the fetal specialist to monitor, to make sure that everything’s okay, and then you'll go home.
It’s not a big deal.’ Thank God she said that.” The 26-year-old followed her doctor’s advice and went to the hospital, where she was informed that she was in active labor weeks ahead of the usual timeframe.
“They hooked me up to the monitor, and they were like, ‘You’re in active labor,’” she said, noting that she was “really terrified.” Richie’s stay at the hospital went from a few hours to six days, where she was monitored and given IV fluids. After the sixth day, the mother-to-be had enough.
“I was begging. I was like, ‘Please, please let me go home.’ And she was like,.
