Alexa Bliss says she had a serious health scare after giving birth to her daughter, Hendrix.
Bliss told Stephanie McMahon on What’s Your Story? that she had preeclampsia, a pregnancy complication involving high blood pressure, and that it was not caught while she was pregnant.
“Yeah, so I had preeclampsia, and they didn’t catch it. I naturally have low blood pressure,” Bliss said. She said her mother, who has a doctorate in nursing, told her to have doctors check her blood pressure again. “I was still a normal range for a normal human being. It shot up by 30, and they were like, ‘Oh, it’s probably just because you’re in pain and whatever.'”
After Hendrix was born, Bliss went with her to the hospital because the baby was jaundiced, and Bliss began swelling.
“I kept telling everyone, ‘I feel like I’m drowning, when I lay down, I feel like I’m drowning,'” she said. “And this was three days after giving birth.”
Bliss said a neighbor who works at the hospital told her to get blood work done after she texted her photos of her ankles and face.
“Get my blood work, and immediately they’re like, ‘Okay, we need to admit you, not to freak you out, but you could be in heart failure, could be in kidney failure,'” Bliss said.
She said hospital staff told her they were glad she came in, because “a lot of times the mommies who come in with us, the daddies and babies, leave without a mommy if they don’t stay.”
“And I was like, ‘Excuse me?'” Bliss said. “I was like, I’m gonna stay, you don’t need to scare me into staying.”
Bliss also talked about balancing motherhood with her WWE schedule and said Hendrix often travels with her on the road.
Bliss and Tatum Paxley won the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship from Fatal Influence on the October 9 SmackDown and lost the titles to Michin and B-Fab two weeks later on the October 23 SmackDown.
