Kourtney Kardashian Is Finally Opening Up About Her Birth Journey

Kardashian Barker underwent emergency fetal surgery last year when she was pregnant with baby Rocky
Kourtney Kardashian Barker is opening up about a scary moment in her life.

During the season 5 premiere of The Kardashians, the mom of four, 45, spoke about the emergency fetal surgery she received last summer ahead of welcoming baby Rocky Thirteen. Kardashian Barker describes how she had a scan at home right before husband Travis Barker, 48, was leaving for his Blink-182 tour.
“The doctor who will come to the house to do the scan is a high-risk doctor, really detailed and thorough at looking for everything,” Kardashian Barker explains. “And something caught his eye where he wanted me to see a couple of specialists and I had to go in for fetal surgery where they do surgery on the baby, which was terrifying.”

Kardashian Barker says she was home the night before the surgery, which she admits was “stressful.” At that point, Barker was out of the country and flew home for the surgery.

“The timing of it was miraculous. That like saved everything,” Kardashian Barker says. “I just feel so grateful that, you know, how everything played out and for the doctors that really helped make the best decisions that really saved our baby.”

“[The] doctor was like, ‘That was a trauma and I want you guys to be able to take a second and know that that was really traumatic,’ ” the mom of four remembers.

In a confessional, Kardashian Barker says that she relied on her “superpower” to get her through the stress of the surgery.

“There’s some superpower that I have that in emergency situations, I get really calm. And then right when we left I was like, ‘Okay, I could take a deep breath. I could cry. I could get it out,’ ” she explains.

Discussing her decision to share her experience on social media, Kardashian Barker says that she’s happy she posted about the surgery so that others could learn from her experience.

“They were so grateful that I posted something about it because they said so many people don’t feel comfortable, even telling their friend or their family members because they’re like, ‘Did they do something wrong or different things?’ ” Kardashian Barker says.

“But my doctor’s like, ‘There’s nothing that you did wrong, it’s not age-related. It’s like just a super rare thing that happened.’ But then I was like, after this happened, I was like God’s got this. We’re good. This is a miracle and I’m gonna be super positive.”

After the surgery, Kardashian Barker notes she was feeling a lot better.

“I feel good. But I also felt good. So I’m like, yeah, if I don’t feel movement for like, five minutes, I’m like shaking him up because of the emergency fetal surgery that I had to have,” she says.

“I’m now like mostly on bed rest because there’s a hole in the amniotic sac from where they had to go into the surgery. So I’m not allowed to drive, I’m not allowed to stand for more than 20 minutes. I’m really not leaving the house.”

New episodes of The Kardashians drop Thursdays at 12 a.m. ET on Hulu.