The Real Housewives of Potomac’s Candiace Dillard Bassett is soaking up life with a newborn.
“Motherhood is great. My pregnancy was amazing. Labor was amazing. Birth was amazing,” Dillard Bassett, 37, exclusively told Us Weekly on Sunday, November 17, at the EBONY Power 100 Gala held at NYA Studios West.
However, Dillard Bassett noted that the postpartum period was the most challenging phase. “For me, postpartum is what I would categorize as ghetto,” she said. “It’s been a hard adjustment for my body. Just getting back, I don’t want to say getting back to because it’s new, but getting to a place where I feel like myself.”
Dillard Bassett explained that she has been dealing with health issues since giving birth. “I found out I had a blood clot in my left ovary, and I’m having to be on anticoagulants for the foreseeable future,” she said. “So that has been hard for me just because as a healthy person, to have to take medicine every day and rely and depend on that to be healthy and to be able to be upright is a change, so I’ve had to grapple with that.”
She continued, “But I feel blessed and I have the most beautiful baby. It’s weird to experience that kind of love. It’s so strange and new and different and beautiful.
After showing viewers her IVF journey, Dillard Bassett revealed in April that she and her husband, Chris Bassett, were expecting their first child together. (Bassett has three children from a previous relationship.)
The pair, who tied the knot in 2018, revealed exclusively to Us in September that they were expecting a boy. Dillard Bassett and Bassett welcomed son Jett Maxwell Lee Bassett in October.
While reflecting on what she’s learned as a new mom, Dillard Bassett told Us it’s “trusting yourself.”
“Trust the love you have for your son or your daughter, for your baby, and trust your partner or your village, whoever you have around you,” she said. “You cannot do it all by yourself as much as you want to. I’m talking to myself there as well. You’ve got to trust your village, and just enjoy it.”
Dillard Bassett said she has already felt time passing since welcoming her son. “It really goes by, I’ve looked at pictures of him from four weeks ago and it’s like, ‘Oh my God, he’s already so different and so big,’” she told Us. “So, cherish and just sop up every moment.”
