In an interview on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Hilary Duff opened up to guest host Brooke Baldwin about how she’s been suffering from a side effect of pregnancy that isn’t talked about as much as it should be.
While Hilary is mom to 8-year-old Luca from a previous marriage and she and her husband, Mathew Koma, share a 2-year-old daughter, Banks — Hilary was shocked by her latest side effect while carrying baby no. 3.
“I didn’t have it with the other kids,” she shared.
“So, I texted my midwife the other day and was like, ‘What’s up with the stabbing pains in my vagina?!’ … It feels awful like you’re being struck by lightning,” Hilary with Brooke.
Thankfully, the complication is not serious.
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The “stabbing pain” is something medical professionals call “lightning crotch.”
“She just wrote back, and she was like, ‘Oh, lightning crotch’ — like it was no big thing,” Hilary said.
“I was like, ‘This is quite traumatic.’ Like, it’ll just strike, and all of a sudden, you’re doubled over. And then it’s gone.”
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Hilary revealed how, from a medical perspective , it is “no big thing,” but it is, very, quite painful.
“The term is called lightning, which is the baby getting ready for birth, lowering, so that you can actually breathe and … fill your lungs up with air, which I haven’t been able to do in months,” she explained. “But you get stabbing pains.”
Have you or someone you know ever dealt with this while pregnant? We want to know!
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