Kardashian Barker underwent emergency fetal surgery last year when she was pregnant with ππππ¦ Rocky
Kourtney Kardashian Barker is opening up about a scary moment in her life.
During the season 5 premiere of The Kardashians, the mom of four, 45, spoke about the emergency fetal surgery she received last summer ahead of welcoming ππππ¦ Rocky Thirteen. Kardashian Barker describes how she had a scan at home right before husband Travis Barker, 48, was leaving for his Blink-182 tour.
βThe doctor who will come to the house to do the scan is a high-risk doctor, really detailed and thorough at looking for everything,β Kardashian Barker explains. βAnd something caught his eye where he wanted me to see a couple of specialists and I had to go in for fetal surgery where they do surgery on the ππππ¦, which was terrifying.β
Kardashian Barker says she was home the night before the surgery, which she admits was βstressful.β At that point, Barker was out of the country and flew home for the surgery.
βThe timing of it was miraculous. That like saved everything,β Kardashian Barker says. βI just feel so grateful that, you know, how everything played out and for the doctors that really helped make the best decisions that really saved our ππππ¦.β
β[The] doctor was like, βThat was a trauma and I want you guys to be able to take a second and know that that was really traumatic,β β the mom of four remembers.
In a confessional, Kardashian Barker says that she relied on her βsuperpowerβ to get her through the stress of the surgery.
βThereβs some superpower that I have that in emergency situations, I get really calm. And then right when we left I was like, βOkay, I could take a deep breath. I could cry. I could get it out,β β she explains.
Discussing her decision to share her experience on social media, Kardashian Barker says that sheβs happy she posted about the surgery so that others could learn from her experience.
βThey were so grateful that I posted something about it because they said so many people donβt feel comfortable, even telling their friend or their family members because theyβre like, βDid they do something wrong or different things?β β Kardashian Barker says.
βI feel good. But I also felt good. So Iβm like, yeah, if I donβt feel movement for like, five minutes, Iβm like shaking him up because of the emergency fetal surgery that I had to have,β she says.
βIβm now like mostly on bed rest because thereβs a hole in the amniotic sac from where they had to go into the surgery. So Iβm not allowed to drive, Iβm not allowed to stand for more than 20 minutes. Iβm really not leaving the house.β