Mandy Moore knows the trails of childbirth as good as anyone. She'll be welcoming her second child this October, but unfortunately won't be able to receive an epidural during her delivery due to her blood disorder.
The This Is Us star opened up about her difficulties to Today Parents about being diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder: immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP).
She has revealed to Today Parents that she has immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), which decreases the number of platelets in the blood.
In fact, she even revealed that she had to do the same with her son Gus. “It was awful. But I can do it one more time. I can climb that mountain again,” Moore said.
Back in 2021, she told the Informed Pregnancy Podcast that she found out at the hospital that she couldn't get medication. Even though she was in so much pain, it was not considered as an option.
“It was, one second everything was fine and then the next second it was like, this is happening. And literally I pushed harder than I had. And it went from no baby to a full body out in seconds,” she said.
"I was like, this is not the way ... I didn’t even have a concept of — this is not the way I expected to feel. I just remember going, I’m so confused right now. And quickly that transitioned into being emotional too. And I just couldn’t believe that it was over because it happened so quickly.”
