Chrissy Teigen Reveals Loss of Third Child On Social Media

Chrissy Teigen revealed on social media that the baby she was carrying didn’t survive while she was hospitalized. In a lengthy post on Instagram on October 1, the mother-of-two revealed that her third child had died.

“We are shocked and in the kind of deep pain you only hear about, the kind of pain we’ve never felt before,” the 34-year-old captioned a black and white photo of her in a hospital bed with tears streaming down her face. “We were never able to stop the bleeding and give our baby the fluids he needed, despite bags and bags of blood transfusions. It just wasn’t enough.”

Teigen added that while she was in the hospital, she and her husband, John Legend, decided to name their son Jack.

“We never decide on our babies’ names until the last possible moment after they’re born, just before we leave the hospital.  But we, for some reason, had started to call this little guy in my belly Jack.  So he will always be Jack to us.  Jack worked so hard to be a part of our little family, and he will be, forever. To our Jack – I’m so sorry that the first few moments of your life were met with so many complications, that we couldn’t give you the home you needed to survive.  We will always love you.”

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We are shocked and in the kind of deep pain you only hear about, the kind of pain we’ve never felt before. We were never able to stop the bleeding and give our baby the fluids he needed, despite bags and bags of blood transfusions. It just wasn’t enough. . . We never decide on our babies’ names until the last possible moment after they’re born, just before we leave the hospital.  But we, for some reason, had started to call this little guy in my belly Jack.  So he will always be Jack to us.  Jack worked so hard to be a part of our little family, and he will be, forever. . . To our Jack – I’m so sorry that the first few moments of your life were met with so many complications, that we couldn’t give you the home you needed to survive.  We will always love you. . . Thank you to everyone who has been sending us positive energy, thoughts and prayers.  We feel all of your love and truly appreciate you. . . We are so grateful for the life we have, for our wonderful babies Luna and Miles, for all the amazing things we’ve been able to experience.  But everyday can’t be full of sunshine.  On this darkest of days, we will grieve, we will cry our eyes out. But we will hug and love each other harder and get through it.

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In a tweet on September 29, she said the doctors had a hard time finding the baby’s heartbeat.

“Just had a really scary morning, “she tweeted. “[H]uge clot, almost save-worthy. The scramble to hear the heartbeat seemed like hours. I never thought I’d relief sigh so much in my liiiiife.”

After revealing the loss of her child, she tweeted: “Driving home from the hospital with no baby. How can this be real.”

In Her Last Instagram Post, Teigen Revealed She Had Blood Transfusions

On September 27, 2020, Teigen revealed on her social media that she had been hospitalized due to excessive bleeding from her placenta. 

In her last post from September 29, she said that she and her unborn child were “completely fine” despite having to receive blood transfusions.

“[A]bout to have my second blood transfusion which truly truly truly sounds more dramatic than it is,” she wrote on Instagram. “It’s an IV, but instead of fluids, the blood of some kind human being out there. Baby and I are completely fine, just missing the little things like walking…cooking…playing with the other buttbutts.”

Teigen Was Placed On Bed Rest in September

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Bedrest chronicles. @chrishimmm (who went from my first assistant, getting me llamas on a whim and any flowers you received in the past 5 years, she picked) to now, my head of brand operations for @cravingsbychrissyteigen! She has been here for it allll. Anyhoo, she isn’t kneeling and feeding me chocolate here. Well I guess she kind of is. But it’s for work!!! We have something verrrrrrrry cool coming and I CANNOT WAIT!!! I’ll be showcasing more of team cravings in the next few weeks, as the team has really come together and I am just SO proud of them and what we have built. My dream for everyone is they love what they do and feel fulfilled in every way. I want to laugh and be stupid and silly and have dumb parties because it’s Tuesday, celebrate every birthday with an hour nap or hour of television (@mindykaling) and make dreams happen on the daily. I love what @cravingsbychrissyteigen has become and I cannot wait for you guys to see what we have in store…in store…innnn store. Ah!!! Anyhow, @chrishimmm, my right hand, my brain holder. Thank you for all these wonderful years past, and the future to come!

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Teigen had been documenting her pregnancy on her Instagram stories and revealed on September 15 that was placed on bed rest due to having a weak placenta. According to Pop Sugar, in one of her story posts she said she didn’t quite understand the full restrictions of being on bed rest at first.

“I didn’t really know that bed rest was, like, in bed,” she said. “I honestly thought bed rest was you have to really, really, really relax, stay home — I thought it could be couch rest. Now I’m in trouble, so now I need bed rest.”

In another one of her Instagram story posts, she said her placenta had “always been kind of the bad part of my pregnancies,” People noted.