Bok van Blerk and his wife Hanna Grobler. Image: Instagram
In a recent Instagram post, Hanna Grobler – who gave birth to her and Bok van Blerk’s fourth child – says: “We got the biggest gift… A new little life and a second chance for me. When I look at my husband and my children, the tears flow. I am grateful.”
The actress says on the morning of their daughter’s birth, she had a feeling that it was the last time that she would see her children.
“I left them letters to tell them that I love them.”
Bok and Hanna have been married since 2014 and they have just welcomed a beautiful daughter, Papillon, into the world.
Their firstborn was stillborn and therefore Hanna says: “Because of the stillbirth of our son, Louis, everyone becomes anxious towards the end of my pregnancies…the baby is monitored continuously and sometimes taken out earlier.”
Papillon was arrived at 37 weeks on 21 September as the doctor was concerned she wasn’t picking up enough weight.
The actress says she knew Papillon was fine, though.
“My motherly instinct knew she was fine, and she was. But I wasn’t,” she writes in her Instagram post.
During her caesarean, Hanna says she felt Jesus sitting next to her bed.
“He didn’t say anything, He just sat there and touched my hair.”
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The doctor discovered Hanna had placenta increta, which Hanna describes as a life-threatening condition where you can bleed yourself to death.
She says when she woke up after the caesarean, she couldn’t breathe while the anaesthetist told her that they have to fight for her life.
Hanna tried to tell her that she couldn’t breathe, but she couldn’t speak.
“It felt like I was drowning.”
Luckily the anaesthetist realised what she was trying to say and gave her an oxygen mask.
Hanna lost litres of blood saying that it was a miracle that she survived.
“But Jesus sat next to my bed, and I know He saved my life.”
She says the gynaecologist said: “Thank God we had to give you anaesthetics, otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to do what I had to.”