Country singer Renee Blair revealed that she lost over two liters of blood while giving birth to her first child.
Blair announced on Instagram Friday that she and her husband Jordan Schmidt welcomed a son in a black and white image of the brand new family in a hospital bed.
Alongside the photo, Blair included a series of written posts wherein she recounted the harrowing ordeal that she endured shortly after her delivery.
“In the event you’re wondering what happened, two hours after giving birth I lost over 2 liters of blood in under thirty minutes (imagine dumping out an enormous 2L bottle of soda, that’s all I could take into consideration) and needed to be transferred to a distinct floor to attempt to get things under control,” the 31-year-old musician wrote.
Blair continued, “I ended up losing roughly half the blood in my body. This last week since coming home I’ve had panic attacks just walking from my bed to the couch after catching glimpses of myself within the mirror looking so pale and from feeling so weak.”
While the “Heart’s In Your Head” singer admitted that the experience was scary, she said that her health was improving every single day.
“I’m not gonna lie, it freaks me out!,” she wrote. “But you realize what, another thing about life, it goes on. I’m regaining strength and color every single day…and the way amazing is it our body has the potential to inform us what we want to decelerate, if we just concentrate to it and listen — I haven’t all the time been good at that, but what a method to learn that lesson.”
“And after one week with this little angel muffin of a baby boy, I’m further convinced that every one the corny cliches are true,” Blair added. “I’d undergo all of it again to feel the sensation of just watching him open his eyes, seeing his chest move up and down as he breathes while he sleeps, and hearing his cry that’s music to my ears.”
“Life may be very much in reality EVERYTHING,” she concluded.
Blair also reflected on the meaning of life in one other note that she included in her post.
“Life,” she wrote. “How persistently during a wild wave of it have all of us stopped and asked ourselves, ‘what’s life?’”
“Today has been every week since I brought life into this world while concurrently feeling like I could be losing my very own,” Blair continued. “How weird is that?”
“Through the chaos and the times since, when attempting to process, I discovered myself realizing that life is solely the whole lot,” she added. “Life is fragile, life is magical, life is brief but life is wonderful.”
“Life is gorgeous, confusing, tragic, insane, chaotic, too fast, overwhelming, incredible, a rollercoaster. Yes, life, you’re the whole lot.”
Blair and Schmidt, 35, married in Nashville last September after five years of dating.
The “Holy Cowboy” songstress revealed that she and the music producer were expecting their first child as she debuted her baby bump on the red carpet on the 2023 American Country Music Awards.
On the awards show, the duo were nominated for song of the 12 months after co-writing HARDY’s hit country song “Wait Within the Automotive.”
