Dr Emily Andre got emotional as she detailed how she had to have emergency surg3ry after developing a rare and dangerous condition while giving birth to her third child last year.

The NHS doctor, 35, and husband Peter, 52, share children Millie, 11, Theo, eight, and Arabella, 15, months, together while Peter is also dad to Junior, 19, and Princess, 18, from his marriage to Katie Price.

The couple have since ruled out having any more kids in the future, with the Mysterious Girl singer admitting earlier this year that he was working up courage to get a vasectomy.

And Emily has now revealed that their decision not to expand their brood was ‘cemented’ by her ‘awful’ experience giving birth to Arabella last year, as she broke her silence on the ordeal.

Speaking to Giovanna Fletcher on her Happy Mum Happy Baby podcast, she explained the birth caused her to develop a serious bowel condition, that medical staff said was so rare that none of them had ever encountered it before.

Emily teared up as she described how she suffered severe pain and a ‘really slow recovery’, but admitted that the ‘worst part’ was being apart from her newborn daughter.

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Dr Emily Andre got emotional as she detailed how she had to have emergency surg3ry after developing a rare and dangerous condition while giving birth to her third child last year (seen)

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The NHS doctor, 35, and husband Peter, 52, share children Millie, 11, Theo, eight, and Arabella, 15, months, together while Peter is also dad to Junior, 19, and Princess, 18, from his marriage to Katie Price (pictured all together)

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The couple have since ruled out having any more kids in the future, with the Mysterious Girl singer admitting earlier this year that he was working up courage to get a vasectomy

She said: ‘I haven’t really spoken about her birth and what happened afterwards because it was so hard and awful. It was tough. I was really unwell after she was born, there was quite a lot of complications.’

She choked up as she recalled: ‘I had to go back for emergency surg3ry. She was a week old, so that was the worst bit, I had to kind of hand her over and go in for another operation.’

Emily explained she’d developed a rare hernia – which is when internal part of the body pushes through a weakness in the muscle or surrounding tissue wall.

She said: ‘I developed a really rare type of hernia that was quite large, basically part of my b0wels were kind of in the wrong place.

‘And the type of hernia that it was can strangulate quite easily and then that ends up being an emergency.

‘All the consultants I’ve seen have said, ‘We’ve never seen this in our whole career’ and then I think, ‘For God’s sake, why did it have to happen to me?’

‘I knew things weren’t right after she was born because I had a big, huge lump in my tummy sticking right out.’

She explained after a week she was sent to see a surgeon, saying: ‘And the surgeon looked and said “You need to come into hospital now”.’

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And Emily has now revealed that their decision not to expand their brood was ‘cemented’ by her ‘awful’ experience giving birth to Arabella last year, as she broke her silence on the ordeal

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Speaking to Giovanna Fletcher on her Happy Mum Happy Baby podcast (pictured) she explained the birth caused her to develop a serious bowel condition, that medical staff said was so rare that none of them had ever encountered it before

Emily admitted she was stunned by the news and asked to go home first to prepare, saying she was consumed by the thought she couldn’t be with Arabella.

She said: ‘I just didn’t expect it. I was breastfeeding so I thought ‘My God, I’m going to have to express milk. How am I going to feed her if I’m on the operating table?’ So they let me go home and I could do all of that.’

She was rushed to surg3ry the following morning, and confessed that despite being in ‘really bad pain’, the ‘worst’ part was handing Arabella off to her mum, saying: ‘I was a right mess, it was really hard.’

But she recalled the ‘one thing that made me smile’ and ‘took my mind off it’ was the porter revealing she was in the same theatre where Peter had been operated on by Emily’s urologist father – which is how they first met.

She explained: ‘The way Pete and I met was my dad operated on him. We were then friends for years and it was in the same theatre.

‘I was lying on the table and the porter that got me across was so lovely. He said ‘You know, I brought Pete here into this theatre. This was exactly where he lay and this is the room where he met your dad’. It was just such a nice moment and it was something that took my mind off it.’

Emily added: ‘Then the recovery from that was quite awful. I was in hospital for probably two or three days and then the recovery was really, really slow. They had to do quite a lot of stitching up and moving things around so the pain was quite bad.’

However, a year on, she said she felt as though she ‘was pretty much back to health now’ as she voiced her gratitude to Peter, her parents and all the medical staff for being ‘amazing’.

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Emily teared up as she described how she suffered severe pain and a ‘really slow recovery’, but admitted that the ‘worst part’ was being apart from her newborn daughter

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However, a year on, she said she felt as though she ‘was pretty much back to health now’ as she voiced her gratitude to Peter, her parents and all the medical staff for being ‘amazing’

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But she admitted that she may still be dealing with some psychological aftereffects, as she revealed she has not spent a night apart from Arabella since her surg3ry

But she admitted that she may still be dealing with some psychological aftereffects, as she revealed she has not spent a night apart from Arabella since her surg3ry.

She said: ‘It was the handing her over, that was the worst part of it’ as she explained how she felt ‘really lucky’ that she was able to recover on the midwife ward so that Arabella could stay with her.

Emily said: ‘Otherwise she would’ve had to be at home and I’d have been separated from her. That was all I was thinking about, ‘Don’t take my baby away from me’.’

‘I do find it really hard [to be away from her]. I’ve got quite good at the daytime, but there’s something about the night and putting her to bed…’

While she stressed that the traumatic ordeal has underlined her desire not to have any more children, stressing that she was ‘100 per cent no more!’

She added: ‘It’s a definite no from me, we’re not having anymore. It’s absolutely cemented now. We always said it would be the last anyway. Five’s enough, we don’t have any more bedrooms in the house for starters.’

Peter first hinted that Arabella’s birth had been difficult in May, as he said it had been a ‘very scary time’ during his own appearance on Giovanna’s podcast.

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While she stressed that the traumatic ordeal has underlined her desire not to have any more children, stressing that she was ‘100 per cent no more!’

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Peter first hinted that Arabella’s birth had been difficult in May, as he said it had been a ‘very scary time’ during his own appearance on Giovanna’s podcast

The reality star revealed that Emily had suffered ‘serious’ complications and echoed his wife’s admission that the experience had cemented their decision not to have another baby.

He said: ”Emily had a real complication with Belle […] And I don’t know if she’s ever talked about it, but the complications that happened after were very serious.

‘Emily had a real complication with Belle… And I don’t know if she’s ever talked about it, but the complications that happened after were very serious.

‘And so we – you know, it was a very scary time as well. But it also confirmed that it’s the last time.’