I didn't want to put my life on hold... so lost 7.5st!
| Published date | 01 January 2021 |
| Date | 01 January 2021 |
| Publication title | Daily Star (England) |
Just less than a year on, ''
this New Year's Day the 37-year-old is celebrating achieving that goal, having lost seven stone and nine pounds with Slimming World.
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Sian gained five stone while she was pregnant with her first child, Adam, after she was told there was a risk he could have a low birth weight.
She says she saw that as a "green light" to eat everything and anything she wanted, to try to help the baby reach a good weight.
However, as District Manager for Slimming World in South East
Wales and the Shires, she felt embarrassed about her size when she was admitted to hospital to give birth last January.
After repeated attempts to induce her over several days, doctors made the decision to deliver Adam via an emergency caesarean section.
In theatre, doctors administered an epidural and Sian began to have horrendous side effects.
"I was told to shuffle back and at that point I couldn't breathe. I freaked out, I just knew something was wrong."
Sian says she remembers people shouting "Sian, stay with us" and said she felt herself slip away.
"I could hear the doctors working on me. At that time, I thought I was dying and would never get to see my husband again or meet my baby."
Thankfully, Sian's fears didn't come true and she woke up on the high dependency unit with her son, Adam, and husband, Mohamed, by her side.
However, Sian's initial relief was short-lived as she began suffering horrific headaches.
lucky better I to be healthiest could Adam "I was kept in hospital for monitoring and had been suffering painful headaches. Then, when I was discharged and I tried to get out of bed, I felt a searing pain like someone had shot me through the head. I started screaming because the pain was so bad.
"All the doctors came running in and one said to get the cardiac arrest team. Again I thought, 'this t, octors discovered the daches were caused by spinal d after failed epidurals. he following days, she found self unable to walk or talk.
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