“Let’s Dance” star Patricija Ionel: Twin birth became a “challenge”

The “Let’s Dance” professional dancers Patricija Ionel (29) and her husband Alexandru Ionel (30) have become parents again and revealed a few hours after the birth of their twins that there were complications.

The birth lasted “the whole night” and was “very exhausting”. “So much pain, so much time,” the new mother of twins reports from her hospital room and lets her followers share in the ordeal.

The birth of the first twin was like that of her son (born in January 2022), but with the second it became a “challenge”. The second child “turned the wrong way” so that the baby had to be pulled out by the doctors “by the feet”. “It was very, very painful,” the Lithuanian professional dancer sums up – despite epidural anesthesia (PDA) and “all the medications that exist”.

Surgery after birth

“My back hurts from the epidural and I still have a lot of fluid in my body,” she reports hours later in another story with a photo of a bloody access in her hand. “My stomach hurts because I had two large clots after the birth. [Blutgerinnsel, Anm. der Red.] removed – they were the size of tennis balls. And that was actually more painful than the birth or contractions themselves.” She had circulatory problems for the first four hours and “couldn’t even stand up.” Hours later she was walking with “great pain and difficulty.” Patricija Ionel had never experienced anything like that since the birth of her son Noelis two and a half years ago.

The two professional dancers published the first photos of their twins on Instagram on the morning of September 23rd. “We couldn’t be happier! A new journey is now beginning for us as a family and we are so excited to share it with you,” they posted. “You can see direct pictures from the delivery room – the happy and totally exhausted dad with our boy, and me, super exhausted but overjoyed with our daughter.” Now there are finally five of them.