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Serena Williams Revealed She Was So Paranoid During Pregnancy That She Repeatedly Checked Her Underwear For Blood For Nine Months Straight

“This time I went in with a plan... I literally thought about it as a Grand Slam: <i>How can I succeed?” </i> said Serena, who saved her own life after giving birth to her first child when doctors initially ignored her concerns over her medical complications.

While Olympia arrived safely via an emergency C-section, Serena suffered a pulmonary embolism shortly after giving birth — something that she had experienced in the past. Shouldn’t I be on that now?’ The response was, ‘Well, we don’t really know if that’s what you need to be on right now.’ No one was really listening to what I was saying,” she recalled, later noting that a nurse told her that all the medicine was making her “talk crazy” when she asked to get a bilateral CAT scan of her lungs. What’s more, Serena revealed that she was incredibly paranoid ahead of pregnancy and checked her underwear for blood — a sign of potential miscarriage — for nine straight months.

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