BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Oti Mabuse shares daughter's birth details for first time and 'trauma' that followed

Oti Mabuse has shared details about her daughter's birth for the first time and admitted that 'trauma followed'. The former Strictly Come Dancing star announced she and her husband Marius Lepure had become first-time parents on Christmas Day last year.

They took to Instagram with an adorable photo in which they wore matching festive pyjamas as they gazed lovingly at their baby girl alongside their beloved pet dog, Leo.

It wasn't until later that told how their daughter, whose name hasn't been shared publically, had actually born prematurely in October, two months earlier than expected.

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Now, Oti has opened up about how the end of her pregnancy unfolded and how it impacted her after her daughter had arrived into the world.

"The pregnancy itself was beautiful, it was amazing but I had a spontaneous birth where we were going shopping and my waters just broke in the middle of the street," she told matchmaker and certified life coach Paul Carrick Brunson on the latest episode of his podcast, We Need To Talk

"Because I didn't have any experience of birth it didn't see traumatic at the time. Afterwards I felt that was intense. And when you look at milestones of premature babies, I have to be very, very understanding. The trauma came after."

In the joint interview with her husband, Oti also admitted she finds it hard not to blame herself for the premature birth and was full of praise for the nursing team at London’s University College Hospital for saving their baby.

"They are absolutely brilliant," she said. Those nurses deal with babies this size, with organs that are this tiny. They give them such beautiful care. They are protecting them."

She confirmed how their Christmas Day announcement came just 24 hours after they left the hospital, six weeks after their little girl's birth. Oti explained: "The baby was sick. She couldn’t breathe on her own, she couldn’t eat on her own. She was really small. We couldn't hold her. That was incredibly, incredibly tough."

She continued: "I was just like, ‘This is horrible. How can in this world, this beautiful thing - Christmas - happen?’. I cried for an hour. You’ve just given birth, postpartum is tough, so I still had all those hormones… It was really, really tough. I was at my lowest."