Serena Williams had 'near-death experience' while giving birth and 'could not move limbs'
dailystar.co.ukSerena Williams has described her ordeal giving birth as a ‘near-death experience.’The tennis star, 40, gave birth to daughter Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr in 2017 but required an emergency cesarean section.
She was eight weeks gone when she won the Australian Open that year but five months later she had to have an emergency delivery as the baby’s heart rate was dropping during labour.."I asked a nurse, 'When do I start my heparin drip?
Shouldn’t I be on that now?'" she wrote in elle.com. "The response was, 'Well, we don’t really know if that’s what you need to be on right now.' No one was really listening to what I was saying.
The logic for not starting the blood thinners was that it could cause my C-section wound to bleed, which is true. Still, I felt it was important and kept pressing.
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