{"id":393060,"date":"2018-01-19T12:04:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T12:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=393060"},"modified":"2018-01-19T12:04:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T12:04:55","slug":"kim-kardashian-not-carrying-child-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=393060","title":{"rendered":"Kim Kardashian: Not carrying my own child was &#8216;so hard&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Kim Kardashian West has said that not carrying her third child herself was &#8220;so hard&#8221;, but that &#8220;the connection with our baby came instantly&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The reality TV star and businesswoman&#8217;s third baby with Kanye West was delivered by surrogate on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s as if she was with us the whole time,&#8221; she added in a post to her fans on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Kardashian West was advised against getting pregnant again because of possible medical complications.<\/p>\n<p>She carried her older two children, four-year-old daughter North and two-year-old son Saint, herself.<\/p>\n<p>But she suffered from pre-eclampsia and placenta accreta on those occasions.<\/p>\n<p>Pre-eclampsia is a condition that usually occurs in the second half of pregnancy and can cause serious complications if not monitored and treated.<\/p>\n<p>Placenta accreta is when the placenta attaches itself too deeply into the wall of the uterus.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image__img js-image-replace\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef-1.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/2BD0\/production\/_99661211_gettyimages-663923238.jpg\" alt=\"North West\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" data-highest-encountered-width=\"624\" \/>Kardashian West&#8217;s daughter North was born in 2013<\/span><\/figure>\n<p>Kardashian West said in a post on her app that &#8220;doctors said that it wasn&#8217;t safe for my, or the baby&#8217;s, health to carry my own&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old said she and her husband decided to use a &#8220;gestational carrier&#8221;, meaning the baby is &#8220;biologically mine and Kanye&#8217;s&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>She wrote: &#8220;Having a gestational carrier is definitely different, but anyone who says or thinks it&#8217;s the easy way out is completely wrong.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People assume it&#8217;s better because you don&#8217;t have to deal with the physical changes, pain or complications with delivery, but for me it was so hard to not carry my own child, especially after I carried North and Saint.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kardashian West&#8217;s surrogate was discussed on her reality show Keeping up with the Kardashians, but her identity was not revealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body__crosshead\"><strong>A &#8216;special&#8217; experience<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The star said she had a &#8220;great&#8221; relationship with the surrogate, and &#8220;trusted her completely throughout the entire process&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>She added: &#8220;I&#8217;m so grateful for modern technology and that this is even possible. It&#8217;s not for everyone, but I absolutely love my gestational carrier and this was the best experience I&#8217;ve ever had.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Having a gestational carrier was so special for us and she made our dreams of expanding our family come true.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star announced that her daughter was born at 12.47am on Monday and weighed 7lb 6oz.<\/p>\n<p>She has not yet revealed the baby&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Kardashian West has said that not carrying her third child herself was &#8220;so hard&#8221;, but that &#8220;the connection with our baby came instantly&#8221;. The reality TV star and businesswoman&#8217;s third baby with Kanye West was delivered by surrogate on Monday. &#8220;It&#8217;s as if she was with us the whole time,&#8221; she added in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":393063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[2720],"class_list":["post-393060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-showbiz","tag-kim-kardashian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=393060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/393063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=393060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=393060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=393060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}