Serena shared this information earlier this year in a essay ElleOlympia’s birth into the world was not an easy task. Serena’s birth plan had to be changed when Olympia’s heart rate continued to drop, which led to Serena having to have a C-section. Serena then spent the night in Olympia’s hospital room. “excruciating pain”She had a constant cough and swelling in her legs that caused her to burst her C section stitches.
After spending one week in hospital where doctors found a blood clot on Serena’s lungs and required her to have numerous surgeries, she was finally able go home with her baby.
However, as Serena herself wrote in her essay, “Despite my body’s wreckage—and the fact that I couldn’t get in much breastfeeding—connecting with Olympia at long last was amazing; it was both the reward and the validation for all I’d been through.”