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The Bachelor star Krystal Nielson shared a traumatic story about her experience giving birth to her now-healthy baby boy.
The reality TV personality, 38, described her second time around giving birth as 'extremely traumatic' and explained that her uterus had 'exploded' in her body.
She recalled the harrowing incident when she was giving birth to her second child, son Rowan Vincent, with husband Miles Bowles in November 2025.
The couple are also parents to daughter Andara, now four, but Nielson recalled having a similar experience while giving birth to their first child too.
On Tuesday, she made an appearance on an episode of iHeartRadio's Almost Famous podcast and explained how she had to be taken into the operating room at one point while giving birth.
She described the experience as 'definitely the most horrific thing I've been through.'
Krystal Nielson shared a traumatic story about her experience giving birth to her now-healthy baby boy and described it as 'definitely the most horrific thing I've been through'
During a recent podcast appearance, she explained the many hurdles she experienced while trying to give birth and, at one point, thought her baby boy was not going to 'make it'
The reality star began her story by explaining how she had to get induced after she was informed by doctors that her baby had an 'umbilical vein varix.'
'So with Andara, I progressed pretty quickly,' she said about a similar situation the first time she gave birth.
She explained that when she gave birth to her daughter, it was a 21-hour experience including 'an hour and 15' minutes of pushing.'
Her second child is healthy now, but she said giving birth to Rowan was a different experience and took 40 hours in total as well as a 'traumatic' operating room trip.
She said she was 'already dilating' at 36 weeks and believed their baby boy 'was going to come early' and 'really quick.'
Nielson also explained that she initially wanted to give a natural birth and opted out of an epidural, but when the situation turned more serious later on and it had been already '35 hours of me being induced,' she had no choice.
At one point in the hospital, she explained that a balloon was giving her contractions every five minutes, but it ended up getting 'stuck' and she 'just started bleeding a lot.'
'Things just really started to go downhill, honestly, from that point because it got completely stuck,' she said before adding that she was 'almost screaming in pain and they couldn't get it out.'
She recalled how she had contractions for a long time while giving birth to her first child Andara, who is now four, but the second time around turned into an emergency situation
She shares both children with husband Miles Bowles. She shared the story about giving birth to their second child, their newborn son Rowan Vincent in November 2025
She explained that not only did she have to undergo emergency surgery, but her baby also had to receive treatment in the NICU
She said that later an obstetrician had to come deflate the balloon entirely.
'Long story short, flash forward, they're like, "Let's give you the epidural. Let's break your water and that should get things going." And it did.'
Then, she explained she encountered another situation when the nurses in the hospital had a 'shift change' when she reached 10 centimeters and felt like she was about to give birth.
Fortunately, while she was feeling her baby 'drop,' she recalled how the nurses arrived and instructed her to start pushing.
After three hours of pushing, she recalled how she started 'feeling extremely woozy' and felt like she was 'on the verge of passing out' when a doctor came in and told her that her baby was 'stuck in my pelvis.'
When the doctor tried to rotate her baby, she said it was 'extremely painful' and she 'kind of blacked out.'
'When she pulled her hand out, blood gushed out. All this blood and clots. At that point, it was Code Pink,' she said as she recalled how the doctor and nurses immediately brought her to the operating room.
'We don't know if her trying to rotate him had caused my uterus to rupture or if it had ruptured before, because my energy was fading very fast and had been for awhile,' she added.
Though both mom and baby are healthy now, she said that her uterus suffered a major injury and essentially 'exploded,' and she may not be able to have any more children
She explained that she and her husband believed they would be bringing their baby boy sooner rather than later but her plans for a natural birth changed after a dire change of events
'Being in the [operating room] was extremely traumatic. Definitely the most horrific thing I've been through.' She said she was 'convulsing off of the table and shaking' while the doctors were 'cutting and then pulling' her to deliver her baby.
'Because he was so low, someone had to go in through my vagina and push him higher because they couldn't get him out,' she said as she explained how surgeons had to 'cut' into her left side as her abs 'were too tight' to deliver her baby via C-section.'
Nielson continued, explaining that they were not sure her son would 'make it' — because amid all of that, his placenta had been prematurely detached from the uterus — and he was taken to the NICU for treatment.
At the same time, she was put under anesthesia to 'repair' her uterus after it had 'ruptured.'
She explained that she ended up delivering baby Rowan after '40 hours,' an emergency C-section operation and a following surgery to repair her uterus
Nielson admitted she and her husband had plans to have a third child together soon but was 'strongly' advised against it. Fortunately, they have all returned home safely and spent the past holiday season together as a family-of-four for the first time
The doctors did end up saving her uterus, but she recalled how the surgeon later told her that her uterus 'completely just exploded' and 'they weren't able to put it together' with stitches.
Following the emergency situation and terrifying birth experience, she explained that she was 'strongly' advised against ever getting pregnant again 'due to the severity' of the injury to her uterus.
'That was really hard hearing that we won't be able to get pregnant again,' she said before admitting that she and her husband had planned to conceive and give birth to their third child 'within a year of giving birth to Rowan.'
She said she had been hoping for another daughter but has now 'surrendered' to 'God's plan' and 'if there will be a third' pregnancy and baby. 'I just want to keep it open, fluid and moving. We'll see.'
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