New Mom Kate Mara Opens Up About Her 'Disappointment' and 'Devastation' Over Emergency C-Section
Kate Mara‘s birth plan didn’t exactly play out the way she was envisioning. The actress opened up in a recent episode ofDr. Berlin’s Informed Pregnancy Podcast, revealing that shegave birth to her daughterwith husbandJamie Bellat 36 weeks gestation in May via an emergency cesarean section, after laboring “into the third day” at the hospital instead of having an at-home birth like she had wanted. After her medical team at Cedars-Sinaiadministered an epidural(something Mara had initially not wanted, but was told could speed up her cervix dilation), she developed a 102-degree fever — which was what prompted the emergency procedure that eventually landed her daughter safely in her arms....