New Delhi: Dia Mirza and her husband Vaibhav Rekhi welcome their first child Avyaan Azaad Rekhi in May 2021. The actress had shared the news a few months after he was born as the baby boy was in NICU for a long period of time. Now in a recent interview, Dia recalled her delivery and said it was ‘life-threatening’ for both her and her child.
While speaking to Bollywood Hungama, the actress revealed that she was not allowed to hold her baby for two and a half months after he was born. She also said that her pregnancy was very hard and spoke about the complications during her pregnancy. “It was really hard. I got sick, I had appendix surgery which had to be done while I was pregnant, in my fifth month. That must have led to some kind of bacterial infection spreading in the body. My placenta was hemorrhaging and the doctor said I have to pull your baby out otherwise I would have gone into sepsis. It was life-threatening for both of us and within 36 hours of birth, the baby had to go through surgery… And then three and a half months after he was born, he had to go through a second surgery. He was in the NICU right through that time. I wasn’t even allowed to hold him till two and a half months had passed after he was born,” Dia told Bollywood Hungama.
Dia also revealed that due to Covid 19 restrictions she was allowed to meet his son ‘only twice a week’. “He was so tiny and so fragile and it was Covid-19 times so there were all kinds of other conditions and regulations I had to follow. I was allowed to see my baby only twice a week. So it was very hard but through it all, I always believed that he would not leave me and he would fight and survive,” Dia told Bollywood Hungama.
Dia married Vaibhav Rekhit on February 15, 2021, and announced the birth of her child in July 2021.
On the work front, Dia will next be seen in ‘Dhak Dhak’ which also stars Ratna Pathak Shah, Fatima Sana Shaikh, and Sanjana Sanghi in lead roles.