Louise Thompson (photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)

This article includes details of a traumatic birth and may be triggering for some readers.

Former Made in Chelsea star Louise Thompson has opened up about how she couldn’t “engage with” or “look at” her son in the weeks after he was born.

The birth trauma survivor appeared on BBC Woman’s Hour to discuss how she had a “very bad relationship” with her son Leo after almost dying during his birth in 2021.

The 35-year-old previously described how her son’s head became stuck in her pelvis during labour, which resulted in her needing an emergency C-section.

She was reportedly told she’d experienced a uterine rupture and her artery had been nicked.

She ended up losing almost three-quarters of the volume of blood in her body, which she was wide awake for and therefore had to witness, and has previously described how she believed she was “bleeding to death”.

Her son also........

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