Hailey Bieber is getting very candid about her health.
The 29-year-old Rhode founder appeared on the SHE MD podcast to talk about her journey, including welcoming son Jack with husband Justin Bieber.
During the conversation, she was asked if their pregnancy was intentional or a surprise.
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“It was a surprise. She told me this was going to happen because she was like…” Hailey said, referring to her OB/GYN Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi, who co-hosts the podcast.
“And I told her like, ‘Don’t get pregnant!’ ” Dr. Aliabadi interjected, before asking if Hailey wanted to share about her health diagnosis.
“Yeah. So I had a septum in my uterus, and Dr. A kept saying, ‘Well, we need to look at this and keep an eye on it before you get pregnant because it could potentially be an issue,’” Hailey said.
“‘I don’t really know. We’ve got to see. I might have to give you a small surgery for it. Not sure.’ And I was like, ‘Okay. Well, I’m not thinking about getting pregnant right now, so we’ll just cross that bridge when we get there.’ And then I magically got pregnant.”
“And then she calls me, and she’s like, ‘I’m pregnant!’ And I’m like, ‘No!’” Dr. Aliabadi exclaimed.
Dr. Aliabadi then explained a uterine septum.
“So uterine septum is genetic. Again, we’re born with it. So basically, imagine you have a normal-shaped uterus. But inside the cavity of the uterus, imagine this little wall that comes in, this thin wall that comes in. You can have a mild, moderate or a severe septum. Basically we measure it on ultrasound. If it’s less than 1 cm, we call it mild. If it’s 1 to 2 cm, it’s moderate.”
“Yours was moderate,” she told Hailey.
“It affects 1 to 3% of women, and with moderate, you have a higher risk of miscarriage with the pregnancy. And so the risk for her was about maybe 25 to 40% risk of miscarriage. And a 10 to 20% risk of preterm delivery.”
“Which I think was our bigger scare. Because we realized as the baby was growing, the septum it was, you know, expanding. Everything was opening and doing what it needed to do, luckily,” Hailey added.
“I never forget, as I was telling her, ‘Well, these are the risks.’ And she looked at me, she’s like, ‘You know what? I believe that everything’s gonna work out fine.’ Remember this? And I looked at her, and I’m like, ‘I think so too,’” Dr. Aliabadi shared.
Dr. Aliabadi talked about how the condition is commonly missed on ultrasounds, and suggested that if someone is suffering recurrent miscarriages to get a 3D imaging of their uterine cavity.
She also described a PreTRM Test, which is a blood test taken between 18-20 weeks of pregnancy that estimates the risk of delivering before 37 weeks. Hailey tested low-risk.
“I was convinced I was going to go into labor early because of my mom’s history… but my body had its own plan,” Hailey went on to say. Watch the discussion above.
Justin recently shared a sweet message for wife Hailey on his birthday.
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