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And though she admits to experiencing “sadness and depression” afterward, she’s opening up about the pain in an effort to help other women.
“It took me a long time to share it,” thePretty Little Liarsalum, 35, said on Wednesday’s episode ofDr. Berlin’s Informed Pregnancypodcast. “[But] if I can make one person feel less alone … Because it happens so much, I think it’s 1 in 4 [women].”
Sean McEwen, Tammin Sursok and daughter Phoenix.Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images
“I said to my husband afterwards, ‘Wow, imagine if my birth could be like this,’ ” Sursok said. “It was the first feeling of what contractions felt like. Everything opened up and we were at home and it just felt better than a c-section. Even though it was bad, it felt better than a c-section.”
“It wasn’t as traumatic as the other one because a) we’d been through it, and b) [the fetus] wasn’t as big,” she added. “So it was more of a shock.”
How has she maintained a positive attitude throughout it all? “I just feel like if you’re not laughing, you’re crying,” Sursok said. “What’s the other choice? I just feel like everyone has something. Everyone’s struggling with something. Everyonehas a battle you don’t know about. I feel like you have a choice to feel negative or positive and I do feel negative a lot of the time, but I have to switch that.”
Now that’s she’s been pregnant on and off for a year and a half now, Sursok said she’s going to “take a little break” after she gives birth.
source: people.com
