'I need someone to take in what’s happening down there.'
“My best friend came that day [I gave birth to my son] and she at that point had not had children. And I’m like ‘Jen, I can’t look at [my vagina] because I think it’ll traumatize me forever but I need someone to take in what’s happening down there,’ ” she told host Zoë Ruderman.“And I took her to the bathroom and I literally bent over and had my best friend just take a physical record of what was going on so someone could tell me what was happening.
“And she’s like, ‘Okay, yep it’s seared in my brain. There’s a physical record.’ And yes, now she has to carry that with her the rest of her life. That’s friendship right there,” Decker said. Decker also talked about the postpartum health complications she faced after the birth of her first child The mother of two was also candid about the struggles she had during her postpartum recovery. Decker had some concerning blood clots and bleeding nipples after having her first child, son Hank, who is now 6.
“The clots started to come. And my mom, being a nurse, but not labor and delivery, was like, ‘This is in any other circumstance not normal,’ ” Decker recalled. “I’m seeing them in the toilet, I’m seeing them in the diaper mesh short pad ice pack situation that’s all layered under them. The nurse came in and saw them and she goes, ‘These are totally normal. If they get bigger than a golf ball, call me.