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Joss Stone ‘grateful to be alive’ after 30-hour labour and emergency C-section-Tori Brazier-Entertainment – Metro
‘All of us mums have our best stories and many of us have war stories kind of with the birth – and I was hoping to not be one of those.’
The singer welcomed son Shackleton in October (Picture: Getty)
Joss Stone has said she feels ‘very, very grateful’ to be alive after ‘everything went a bit wrong’ during labour with her new-born son.
The 35-year-old singer gave birth to son Shackleton via emergency C-section in October, and now has a sense of relief after spending over 30 hours in labour.
The chart-topper, who also has Violet, 22 months, with Cody DaLuz, shared: ‘You know, it’s nice to be alive. It really is. I’m very, very grateful for it.’
Joss then revealed that ‘everything went a bit wrong’ during her labour, and the You Had Me hitmaker has thanked doctors for keeping her alive.
‘You know, we all of us mums have our best stories and many of us have war stories kind of with the birth – and I was hoping to not be one of those.
‘I wanted to be like, “Oh, you have beautiful four-hour labour. And then I just sneezed, and he fell out.” But no, that’s not what happened. But I’m here and there was 15 doctors that just like swarmed in when everything went a bit wrong. And they saved my life and saved my baby’s life for me.’
Joss is already back at work, performing at the 2022 National Christmas Tree Lighting on November 30 in Washington DC (Picture: Mary Kouw/CBS via Getty Images)
She introduced Shackleton on Instagram, alongside partner Cody and their daughter Violet (Picture: Instagram/jossstone)
She added to Entertainment Tonight that she ‘truly felt like they were angels’.
During a recent interview with Metro.co.uk’s Guilty Pleasures, the star revealed that she suffered ‘intrusive thoughts’ of slavering wolves after her imagination ran wild following the birth of Violet in January last year.
‘I was elated, super-happy. So happy I was annoying, which is a common thread for me,’ she explained.
‘But every now and then I had intrusive thoughts of something happening to my little girl, like wolves running through the front door and eating her.
Joss had hoped for a ‘beautiful four-hour labour’ but was grateful for doctors intervening when things started to become tricky (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)
‘I thought, “I can’t live like this, this is horrible”. I said to my mum, “I keep having these horrific thoughts”. And she goes, “It will go away. It’s just a mad time – you’ve got the hormones and you’re in love – and concerned”. Apparently, it happens to a lot of women.’
Fortunately, now the fears have passed, Joss has confirmed that she’d love to have more children.
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She told Hello! magazine: ‘I definitely want to have more children. The doctor has said I can have another one but I definitely can’t give birth naturally because my uterus split.’
The singer is now open to the idea of adopting a child, adding that she’d like ‘as many kids as I can’, with Cody onboard with potential adoption plans too.
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