Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West are reportedly expecting their fourth child via surrogate, Us Weekly reports.
The couple hasn't confirmed the news yet themselves, but rumors of them wanting a fourth child have been swirling around for months. In August, Us Weekly reported Kardashian and West had one embryo left, a male. If true, this means their baby-to-be is a boy. According to Us Weekly, he's due in "very early May."
Kardashian and West used a surrogate to welcome their third child, a daughter named Chicago, in January 2018. After her second natural pregnancy, Kardashian West began suffering from placenta accreta, a condition in which the placenta and uterine wall bind too tightly. It was after this she decided to explore surrogacy as an option for having more children.
“My doctor had to stick his entire arm in me and detach the placenta with his hand, scraping it away from my uterus with his fingernails," Kardashian West wrote in her blog about the condition. "My mom was crying; she had never seen anything like this before. My delivery was fairly easy, but then going through that—it was the most painful experience of my life! They gave me a second epidural but we were racing against time, so I just had to deal.”
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In November 2017 she opened up about the differences between having a child naturally and via surrogate. "You know, it is really different," Kardashian West told Entertainment Tonight. "Anyone that says or thinks it is just the easy way out is just completely wrong. I think it is so much harder to go through it this way, because you are not really in control. And you know, obviously you pick someone that you completely trust and that you have a good bond and relationship with, but it is still…knowing that I was able to carry my first two babies and not, you know, my baby now, it's hard for me. So it's definitely a harder experience than I anticipated just in the control area."
Congrats, Kimye! We'll update this post if and when the couple confirms this news.
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