This article discusses pregnancy loss.
Meghan Trainor is looking back on the terrifying moment she thought she’d had a miscarriage while pregnant with her second child.
Meghan and her husband, Daryl Sabara, welcomed their second son, named Barry, last July.
Sharing the news in a sweet Instagram post, Meghan and Daryl — who have been together publicly since 2016 — wrote of Barry: He was a big boy at 8lbs 7oz...and sideways (transverse), but we had an amazing, successful c-section… Thank you to all of the incredible doctors and nurses who took such great care of us.”
Meghan and Daryl welcomed their first child, Riley, two years prior in February 2021.
Appearing on Mythical Kitchen’s Last Meals last week, Meghan recalled noticing that she was “gushing blood” moments before sitting down for an interview with Ryan Seacrest.
“That morning, I was, like, stoked, beaming of joy; I videotaped it. I did interviews, and they were like, ‘How are you?’ I said, ‘I’m thriving,’” she began.
“I was so happy... And then, right before my last interview, I look down, and I’m gushing blood,” she shared.
“They’re like, ‘OK, Ryan Seacrest is on. Go!’” Meghan recalled, admitting that she struggled to hold back tears throughout the entire interview.
“I did that whole interview like, ‘Don’t cry, don’t cry, don’t cry,’ and then got through it. I shut the computer and was like, ‘Hey team, I think I’m miscarrying right now,’” she recounted.
“I went to the bathroom and saw what was happening, and I was like, ‘Alright, I had a baby this morning, and now they’re gone,’” she said.
Meghan then noted that despite what had happened, she continued to test positive on pregnancy tests. The singer later got a blood test done, which further confirmed that she was still pregnant.
“I got a blood test done, and it’s like the number is zero if you’re not pregnant. My number was 90,000…At six weeks, I went in, and she goes, ‘Woah, that’s a 10-week-old baby,’” she shared.
It turns out that Meghan had actually been experiencing “implantation bleeding,” which is defined by the Mayo Clinic as “a small amount of light spotting or bleeding” that can “typically occur about 10 to 14 days after conception.”