Studio 10 host Sarah Harris reveals her devastating miscarriage after losing one of her unborn twins

Studio 10 host Sarah Harris has bravely revealed she suffered a devastating miscarriage back in 2015. 

The 39-year-old was pregnant with twins but lost one of the babies, before going on to welcome her son Paul in December that year.  

Sarah was just eight weeks pregnant when she started suffering heavy blood loss, a symptom of what is known as Vanishing Twin Syndrome. 

‘I started bleeding really heavily,’ Sarah told The Australian Women’s Weekly this week.  

‘I’d only just moved house and I’d been lifting heavy boxes and I thought, “I caused this”, which of course is not true.’

Sarah said she booked in for a D&C (a dilation and curettage) and didn’t even know she was pregnant with twins until a sonographer heard a heartbeat and asked if she had ‘twins in the family.’

‘There were two sacs and one of the babies was lost and one of them was okay – and that baby was Paul,’ Sarah said. 

Sarah welcomed son Paul, four, in December 2015, and then welcomed another son Harry, two, in December 2017.

She told AWW that she suffered postnatal depression after both babies, and her friend and former Studio 10 co-host Jessica Rowe helped her through the ordeal.

Jessica had also previously suffered from postnatal depression. 

She told Sarah to get professional help and tried her best to comfort her and support her as a friend.  

In September, Sarah spoke about what motherhood is really like in the first few months after giving birth. 

She shared a private photo of herself asleep while breastfeeding her second child Harry on Studio 10.  

‘How good do my boobs look?’ Sarah laughed as she introduced the photo on the show.

She said that she shared the image to normalise the reality of motherhood so that new mothers wouldn’t compare themselves to unrealistic celebrity mums in the media. 

‘It’s such exhausting time,’ she continued, before admitting that she felt ‘jealous’ of model Chrissy Teigan for bouncing back to her pre-baby body so quickly after birth.

‘You just can’t compare yourself,’ she added. ‘Because everyone does it in their own time and your body heals at different rates depending on your delivery or the weight of your child.’

The presenter then revealed that she suffered from some mild postnatal depression after welcoming her first child, Paul. 

In an interview back in December last year, Sarah admitted that she ‘couldn’t handle’ having two children at first and was unsure about having a third.

‘It [managing two sons] was really hard for me, and I wonder if I’ll upset the equilibrium by having a third’, she told TV Week at the time.

‘As soon as Harry came out, I said to my obstetrician ‘I’ll see you in a couple of years’, I love the baby smell and that newborn phase – and I actually enjoyed labour, which is really weird,’ she explained. 

Sarah also revealed becoming a mother took a toll on her physically, and suffered from back problems for ‘a long time’.

Despite having reservations, she admitted she would go through the process all over again and will ‘leave it up to the universe’ to decide if she will have a third child.

‘I’m waiting to feel like I’m done, and I don’t think that’s quite the case yet,’ she said. 

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