My kidney failed, liver shut down – Actress Bambam recounts childbirth experience

Reality TV star and actress Bamike Olawunmi, popularly known as Bambam, has opened up about the harrowing experience she faced while giving birth to her first child.

Bambam and her husband, Teddy A, welcomed their daughter, Zendaya, in 2020, nearly a year after their wedding.

However, the journey to motherhood was far from smooth, as she recently revealed on an episode of the Me & My Girls podcast.

Reflecting on her first childbirth experience, Bambam described it as traumatic, recounting how her vital organs began to shut down during laboUr.

She shared, “A lot of stillbirths are due to negligence. It’s either the doctor was not sound or the nurse didn’t do her job on time or they arrived the hospital late.”

Bambam went on to reveal the severity of her condition at the time, saying, “During my first labour, my kidney failed, my heart was weak, my liver…everything was just shutting down because of childbirth. She [my daughter] had detached from the placenta. If I was a second late [to the hospital] she would have lost oxygen and I would have had a stillbirth?”

The actress admitted that the trauma of that experience left a lasting impact on her, adding, “Everytime I look at her, I just say, ‘What if…?’ The what ifs have tormented me. They tormented me so much. I will look at her and I will just… even just remembering I’m getting so nervous. The what ifs were so many and they haunted me for a while. I had to get therapy to walk me through being grateful.”