Reality star has announced that her first child was delivered by emergency Caesarean section .
The former cast member, 36, had been ‘intent’ on having a natural birth, with her husband, 39-year-old businessman William Lee-Kemp, and Loose Women panellist mother Carol Wright by her side.
However, was delivered by Caesarean section at ’s Portland Hospital on May 17, after Wright noticed his movements had lessened.
‘In those last few weeks he had been so active and then, all of sudden, it completely dropped, which was very scary, so our doctor told us to come straight to hospital,’ she recalled.
Medics tried for 48 hours to induce the birth, and Jess shared: ‘They monitored him again and found his heart rate was dropping slightly. They thought he might be lying in an awkward position, so the sensible decision was to have an emergency C-section and get him out quickly.’
She added to : ‘I had been so intent on having a natural birth and to go through that experience as I’d done all the hypnobirthing, but I had a sense of “this is our destiny, this is how it is supposed to happen”, and we accepted it, and then got excited that it was happening so quickly.’
Opting to be ‘strong and positive and embrace it’ over panicking, she called her labour ‘the most incredible, surreal, overwhelming experience ever’.
Jess revealed the couple had chosen the name Presley months before their son was born, after she heard it from someone when she was eight weeks pregnant and her husband loved it too.
She added that becoming a mum had been a ‘whirlwind’ but it was ‘amazing’.
‘It is such an intense, crazy time having your first child and not knowing what to expect. We are learning more every day,’ she said.
‘What we have taken from the first few weeks is that there is no set routine, there are no set rules. You learn as you go along.’
The reality star said her TV and radio presenter brother Mark Wright, who was also on Towie, ‘loves being an uncle’ but his wife, actress Michelle Keegan, has not met Presley yet as she is filming in Australia.
Jess announced in November she was pregnant with her first child after in September.
She has previously revealed the couple discovered she was expecting .
They married in a lavish ceremony on the Spanish island – followed by a poolside reception and a banquet in a castle – which was broadcast on ITVBe.
