Lala Kent revealed the terrifying moment when her newborn Sosa “turned purple” amid the delivery as nurses “freaked out” and called for backup.
The Vanderpump Rules star gave birth on September 3. Lala shared that she used a sperm donor. She also has a three-year-old daughter Ocean, whose father is Lala’s ex Randall Emmett.
On her Give Them Lala podcast, the star opened up about the fast labor and delivery.
“During my second-to-last push, [my obstetrician] kind of stands up really fast, and he’s fixated on the monitor,” said Lala, via Page Six. “And he’s making eyes with the nurse who’s reading things to him that I clearly don’t understand cause I’m not a doctor. And he looks nervous.”
Lala then asked if things were okay, and her doctor responded, “Yep, I just want you to keep pushing.”
She later found out “the [umbilical] cord was wrapped around [Sosa’s] neck a couple of times,” though the doctor “didn’t let [her] know that” and “stayed calm.”
“She comes out, they put her on my chest and I go to hug her — you know, embrace my baby — but the way that the nurse is acting with the baby … and she’s not crying. She does one cry and then it stops,” said Lala. “And my hands are freezing, so I’m like, ‘I’m not touching her because I don’t want to send her into shock.’”
She recalled that the nurses started “rubbing her chest” and also “sucking things out of her mouth.”
“For mama, it was great that she came out so quickly cause I didn’t have to push very many times, but with a fast birth like that, she swallowed a lot of amnionic fluid,” said Lala.
“[She] had so much fluid that she was vomiting all the food she had,” she explained, noting how the nurse “freaked out” and called for backup after noticing that the baby “turned purple.”
“They then bring in a specialist, and they’re like, ‘We want a surgeon to look at her cause this isn’t normal, and we got 10 milliliters of amnionic fluid out of her stomach the first time, then we got another eight, then we got another however many milliliters,” she said. “And they go, ‘And now we’re draining it through the nose, and it won’t stop.’ And they said, ‘We’re either going to have pediatric surgery deal with it, or we want to keep her in the NICU.’”
At the time, Lala was “beside [her]self,” asking, “What the f–k?”
Though the pregnancy itself was “perfect,” Lala “started feeling guilty” as she wondered what she did during her first pregnancy that she didn’t do with Sosa’s.
“I started crying, and they were like, ‘You did nothing wrong during pregnancy; we’re just a little confused,’” said Lala, who explained that her daughter is now “fine.”
