She has called it the best day of her life.
And on Friday, Amy Schumer shared a graphic photo from the day she welcomed son Gene in May 2019 via cesarean section.
In the snap, the Trainwreck star is seen on the operating table during her surgery as a doctor lifts her baby boy over the partition so she can meet him for the first time.
Surgery: Amy Schumer shared a snap of the moment she met her son Gene in a post on Friday showing her in the operating room having a C-section
The 40-year-old actress quipped in the caption '#natonalbikiniday' in reference to the scar she has from the surgery, which is usually just above the bikini area.
Amy has openly talked about the grueling c-section she was forced to undergo which lasted over three hours due to complications caused by scar tissue from the condition Endometriosis.
Originally, Amy had wanted to have a doula-assisted vaginal delivery, but after suffering from hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) which caused severe nausea and vomiting throughout her pregnancy, she decided to have a hospital C-section at 39 weeks.
He's here! The photo showed one of the doctors lifting Amy's son over the partition. The comedian quipped in the caption '#nationalbikiniday' in reference to her scar
Her rock: For Gene's second birthday in May, Amy shared this photo of her and husband Chris Fischer in the operating room
'It was a rainy Sunday and I woke up vomiting and was like the sickest I’d been the whole time,' she told Elliot Berlin on the Informed Pregnancy and Parenting podcast last year. 'And I was like, "I can’t do this anymore." I was so big and I was so miserable and couldn’t keep anything down.'
Amy revealed that doctors, when they realized how bad her endometriosis was, were amazed she was even able to carry a baby to term.
'I was throwing up through the first hour of my C-section. It’s supposed to take about an hour and a half - mine took over three hours because of my endometriosis,' revealed Schumer, 'and that was
