Montana Brown particulars wrestle to conceive earlier than welcoming child son
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eality star Montana Brown has mentioned she was shocked when she struggled to conceive her first youngster though she was in her twenties.
The former Love Island contestant, 27, who welcomed son Jude final month, mentioned she thought she would discover it simple to fall pregnant when she first began attempting with fiance Mark O’Connor.
She informed Giovanna Fletcher’s Happy Mum Happy Baby podcast: “I thought ‘we’re young, this is going to be really easy’ …. for the first four months we’d used ovulation sticks, and then I’d do a pregnancy test and it’d be negative. And I’d be like ‘oh my god that is so hurtful’ and then you do that month after month.
“Then I was kind over-thinking, is there something wrong with me, should I be getting checked?
“Naturally I sent Mark off to the clinic, I said ‘there’s something wrong with your sperm! You need to get it checked out, it’s not me!’
“But, actually, we both went to the clinic and everything was fine.
“So, Mark loves going in the sauna and also he’s an avid cycler, two things which are not good for sperm, which I did not know.
“I also found out I had no oestrogen and no testosterone. It kind of left me a bit like, ‘Oh, I can be young, fit and healthy, and still really really struggle to conceive’.”
Brown mentioned because of this she was shocked when she did discover out she was pregnant, blaming her signs of tiredness, nausea and sizzling sweats on meals poisoning as an alternative.
She mentioned: “For some reason, like clockwork, in the evenings, I was having hot sweats. I had stabbing pains. And I was being sick every night.
“I said to Mark, ‘I’ve got food poisoning’. And he was like, ‘I don’t think you do’, he was like ‘you’re definitely pregnant’.
“I said, ‘Mark, please, come on, we had sex that one time’. I was like, ‘this is not happening, there’s no way’.
“So, I really avoided taking a pregnancy test. I genuinely was so convinced I was just ill.
“I remember Mark FaceTiming me saying ‘I have ordered you a pregnancy test to the house on Deliveroo’.”
She continued: “So, I was on FaceTime to him and I was like, ‘Fine. I’ll take the stupid pregnancy test just to shut you up’.
“I just remember weeing on the stick and just being like, ‘Yeah, it’s not loaded yet’. Just kind of a bit like blase. And then I just remember seeing it and I was like, ‘Oh, my God’.
“He was like, ‘No, you’re joking.’ I was like ‘I’m not joking, it says pregnant!’”
Brown and O’Connor welcomed their child boy on June 23.
Sharing the news on Instagram, she wrote: “Welcome to the world Jude Isaiah O’Connor we’re so smitten with you little man. 23.06.23.”
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