Sharna Burgess Details ‘Scary’ C-Section and ‘Painful’ Postpartum Recovery: It’s ‘No Joke’

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Sharing her truth. Sharna Burgess opened up about her pregnancy and postpartum recovery weeks after welcoming her first child with Brian Austin Green.“I didn’t expect a C section,” the Dancing With the Stars pro, 37, wrote via Instagram on Monday, July 25, alongside a selfie that showed her scar from the procedure. “I didn’t necessarily have a birth plan but even my relaxed go with the flow approach got tested when we were told this was the safest option.

Our little Zane was trying so hard to get out but after 30+ hrs of labor and my water breaking TWICE, i just wasn’t dilating enough.”The choreographer and the Beverly Hills, 90210 alum, 49, welcomed son Zane on June 28.

Burgess noted that she thought she would give birth vaginally, so she was surprised when doctors told her she would need a C-section.“In the moment it was scary, s–t even on the table it was scary,” she wrote. “But Zane arrived healthy and happy and that was always the priority.”The ballroom dancer admitted that she was initially “afraid” to look at the incision after Zane’s arrival. “I looked and thought, ‘wow, I am utterly unrecognizable and my body has been through some serious shit,'” she continued. “But of course it had… I grew a life inside me.

That miracle makes it all worth it.”Burgess also detailed her postpartum recovery, telling her followers that the process is “unlike anything else” she’s experienced. “However you delivered your baby, C- Section or vaginally, postpartum recovery is no joke,” the So You Think You Can Dance alum wrote. “Women, we are incredible, remember that when you’re crying peeing for the first time, or unable to physically get yourself out of bed.