Jaime King has opened up on her traumatic birth and admitted that she didn't know if her son Leo was going to live.
The 39-year-old actress discovered when she was 33 weeks into her pregnancy that her son, now three-years-old, had a chronic heart condition.
Speaking about the terrifying moment in an interview with on Thursday, Jaime revealed she feared for Leo's life and 'didn't get to see his face' before he was taken in for emergency medical treatment just after giving birth.
'I didn't know if he was going to come back to life': Jaime King has opened up on her traumatic birth and admitted that she didn't know if her son Leo was going to live
'As a mother, I think I was so deeply vulnerable because ... I lost many of my pregnancies and my son, Leo Thames, crashed at birth and I didn't get to see his face and they took him and I didn't know if he was going to come back to life.
'He had a serious heart defect called Transposition of the Great Arteries and I just heard, "He's crashing, he's crashing, he's crashing, he's crashing," and they, like, ran out of the room.'
The Sin City actress - who also has five-year-old son James with her husband Kyle Newman - went on to reveal that despite hospital staff's best efforts to convince her to stay in bed and rest after the delivery, she insisted on seeing her child in the newborn intensive care unit.
"But I need to see my child, I need to see my child. Is he alive? Will you tell me, is he alive?"' she recalled telling a nurse.
Mother's intuition: King revealed on Build Series Thursday she was pushed to be by her son's side before his heart surgery
But the nurse prevented her from leaving her bed: '"You
