You've probably heard by now that Kim Kardashian wants to have a third baby. But doctors have warned her it would be high-risk, especially after suffering from placenta accreta, a condition where part of the placenta grows too deeply into the uterine wall and doesn't detach. She's been told to consider a surrogate but it looks like Kim is determined to carry her child the natural way. In a recent episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, she opened up to her family about considering uterus surgery. Is this even safe? Here are few other reasons why Kim having a third child right now might not be such a good idea.
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Kim really wants to have a third kid.
"I’m going to try to have one more baby,” Kim recently said on the show. "I want my kids to have siblings, but my doctors don’t feel it’s safe for me.”
Kim wants to get uterus surgery so she can conceive naturally.
"I have to have a surgery on my uterus to kind of repair this hole,” she explains in the new teaser for the upcoming episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians. "So they need to like clean that out and then there’s, like, scar tissue. It’d also be a really high-risk pregnancy, [but] I would be able to get pregnant.” This option still seems really risky.
It's probably becuase her previous pregnancies were complicated.
Kim suffered from placenta accreta with both North and Saint. Placenta accreta is when part of the placenta (or the entire placenta) grows too deeply into the uterine wall and becomes inseparable. This is a potentially life-threatening condition. While giving birth to North, Kim’s placenta never detached and doctors had to scrape it out by hand.
If it happens again she can lose her uterus.
“They think I’ll have placenta accreta again, so if the placenta grows a little bit deeper than it did last time, then they are prepared to have my uterus removed, which is a little scary for me,” Kim shared in a post on her website.
Saint was breeched.
Kim revealed that Saint was a breech baby that had to be turned around before labor. The procedure was even more painful than childbirth itself.
She had a diabetes scare during pregnancy.
Fortunately, she didn’t develop it but Kim had a diabetes scare during her pregnancy with Saint. She eventually got tested for it and the results were negative.
She had a hard time losing weight after both pregnancies.
"Pregnancy was a lot tougher than people saw on my show or from magazines,” she told People. "I always envisioned that I would have this easy time just being pregnant, only my belly would get big.”
Her doctor doesn’t think it’s safe.
In an episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians that aired in November, Kim revealed that her doctor said it "wouldn’t be safe” for her to get pregnant.
A fertility specialist recommended she consider other options.
He actually suggested she consider using a gestational surrogate but Kim has been on the fence about it. "I think my biggest fear is that if I had a surrogate, I just don’t know, like, would I love them the same?” she said.
Kanye had a mental breakdown.
After Kanye’s mental breakdown, are they really at a place to have a third child?
She’s been through a lot.
Let’s not forget that this past fall Kim experienced a traumatic robbery in Paris that she only recently got over. It might be too soon to be thinking about expanding the family. I’m just saying.
