Emily Atack has shared a rare photo of her son Barney and he has grown a lot since the last time he appeared on social media.
The 34-year-old former Inbetweeners star, who has set tongues wagging with her performance in Disney+ drama Rivals, welcomed her baby boy in June with Alistair Garner, her scientist boyfriend. Now, four months later, the actress has shown off Barney to her followers as he cuddles into his mum while wearing denim dungarees.
It was this time last year, just ahead of Christmas, that Emily shared that she was pregnant, showing off her growing bump, and now she is fully in the swing of motherhood as Barney gets ready to enjoy his first festive season.
The photo comes after Emily spoke about a scary moment during her pregnancy when she had a haemorrhage and started losing blood. Emily said: “I saw blood in the toilet and I was like, ‘oh my god, I’m miscarrying’ – it was just coming out of me and I thought that’s it, biggest fear realised, I’m having a miscarriage.”
Speaking to Jamie Laing on his Great Company podcast, the actress shared: “I had a scan and he [the doctor] said ‘the baby’s fine, you’ve had a haemorrhage, a hematoma but the baby’s ok’. I couldn’t believe it, I thought there’s no way – I thought it was all over and I thought having to tell everybody, you feel like you’re letting them all down, it’s really awful.”
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She continued: “I don’t want to upset anyone who’s been through baby loss, miscarriage but it’s the most horrific thing ever. And a lot of that pain comes from feeling like you’re going to have to let everybody down, because you’ve told them you’re going to have this baby and it’s going to be wonderful and then you’re having totake thataway. The pressure is ridiculous.”
Emily also shared her dislike for how miscarriages are “dismissed as a casual thing”. She said: “It’s so like ‘I know this girl who had a miscarriage…’ because it’s technically seen as common. But what is so awful, I get really angry even when doctors say it in the early days of your pregnancy, they talk about miscarriage like it is such a common thing.
“That it’s so flippant and so throwaway. But to that person who has just lost that baby it is the most devastating thing you could ever imagine. You have lost your child. But for some reason there’s this really casual narrative, like it’s so common that it’s something you just sometimes have to go through. I can’t even imagine the agony and it’s just as women something that we are told to get on with.”
