Ryan Libbey speaks out after fiancee Louise Thompson ‘nearly died’ giving birth: ‘Hold on tight to the people you love
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Louise Thompson’s partner Ryan Libbey has spoken out on the pair’s difficult few months after the Made In Chelsea star ‘nearly died’ giving birth.
After Louise, 31, spent a month in the ICU fighting ‘various serious complications’, Ryan’s urged everyone to ‘hold on tight to the people you love.
Sharing sweet snaps of himself cradling their newborn baby Leo-Hunter, the new dad wrote: ‘The last few months of my life have tested me in more ways than I could have ever imagined. This kinda stuff you don’t prepare for. Sometimes it just lands at your door and you’ve got to deal with it.
‘I’ve got so much that I intend on sharing with you, maybe some of what I have to say will help someone going through a particularly bad time. I’ve learned a lot, about myself, about life, about what really matters.’
Ryan, 31, continued: ‘I guess first and foremost on that the long list of hard lessons – hold on tight to the people you love. It can all change in a blink of an eye.
‘Thank you to everyone who has contacted us, sent cards, stopped us in the street – all of your support and good wishes are gratefully received.
‘You’ll be seeing a lot more from the 3 of us as we rebuild and come back stronger ❤️🩹.’
Louise and Ryan announced they had welcomed Leo on December 23, but revealed he had been born five weeks earlier.
The newborn had to spend a month in the NICU, while Louise was in ICU.
Explaining what she’s been dealing with following the traumatic birth, Louise wrote on Instagram: ‘My panic episodes can last hours or days and are totally unpredictable. When I’m having one I can’t function, I can’t look after myself, let alone anyone else around me. I can’t even spell my name. I can’t see, I can’t hear, I can’t look anyone in the eye.
‘They have got so bad that I have convinced myself that I’m going crazy. I feel depersonalisation, hyper paranoia as if I’ve taken a million and one drugs and I feel like I’m stuck in another realm. I am not myself.
‘If my mind can’t find a physical problem then it will attach itself to a mental one. The other night I thought my head was actually going to explode open because my internal dialogue was so wild and overwrought. I looked in the mirror and my eyes were blood shot. I don’t know whether the mental causes the physical or the other way around, but things seem to be getting worse. If it was a permanent state, I don’t think I would be here.’
‘They have got so bad that I have convinced myself that I’m going crazy. I feel depersonalisation, hyper paranoia as if I’ve taken a million and one drugs and I feel like I’m stuck in another realm. I am not myself.
‘If my mind can’t find a physical problem then it will attach itself to a mental one. The other night I thought my head was actually going to explode open because my internal dialogue was so wild and overwrought. I looked in the mirror and my eyes were blood shot. I don’t know whether the mental causes the physical or the other way around, but things seem to be getting worse. If it was a permanent state, I don’t think I would be here.’
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