Lala Recounts the Harrowing Story of Baby Sosa's Health Scare After Being Born
Vanderpump Rules' Lala Kent could tell that "something was wrong" when she gave birth to her daughter, Sosa Kent.
Lala Kent is sharing new details about the recent birth of her second baby, Sosa Kent.
The Vanderpump Rules cast member welcomed the newest member of her family earlier this month, and on the Sept. 18 episode of her podcast Give Them Lala, she detailed how things got slightly complicated for her newborn shortly after she was born. Ocean Kent Emmett
"By 10:13 p.m., my baby angel was in the world..." Lala recalled, noting that it had only taken two minutes of pushing, which sparked some concerns from her doctor. "During my second to last push, [my doctor] kind of stands up really fast and he's fixated on the monitor. And he's making eyes with the nurse who's reading things to him that I clearly don't understand because I'm not a doctor. And he looks nervous. I'm like, 'Is everything OK?' [and] he goes, 'I want you to keep pushing. We're gonna keep pushing.' And I was like, 'Tell me when to go,' and he's like, 'I want you to go right now.'"
As Lala explained, "The [umbilical] cord was wrapped around her neck a couple of times."
"He stayed calm because I could see that something was wrong, but he didn't let me know that," she continued on the podcast. "She comes out, they put her on my chest, and I go to hug her [and] embrace my baby, but the way that the nurse is acting with the baby not crying... She does one cry and stops."
Lala then began repeatedly asking if Sosa was OK as she had noticed that the nurses were "rubbing her chest [and] sucking things out of her mouth."
"Apparently, for Mama, it was great that she came out so quickly because I didn't have to push very many times, but with a fast birth like that, she swallowed a lot of fluid, amniotic fluid," Lala explained. "To the point where, during our stay in the hospital, they were going to discharge me the next day, but she had so much fluid that she was vomiting all the food she had."
Lala said that the nurses ultimately brought in a specialist after Sosa "turned purple." They then had to keep draining amniotic fluid from her stomach, and they considered keeping her in the NICU.
Lala Kent shares how her daughter Sosa's health is today
After a difficult first few days, things changed for the better for Lala and Sosa.
"Cut to, they do send me home," Lala said. "She's fine, they're not concerned anymore..." the former SUR hostess continued. "All is fabulous. She gained a pound in one week."
Lala also gushed about her baby girl and the impact she had on the staff at the hospital.
"She is the most gorgeous thing I've ever seen in my life. Pretty baby..." Lala said. "There were nurses who would come in and do a double take [at] my daughter and say, 'She is beautiful.'"
