Loose Women’s Stacey Solomon admits she is so worried about getting pregnant with Joe Swash she uses multiple contraception devices
Mum-of-two isn't keen to add to her brood just yet
STACEY Solomon has revealed she's going to extreme measures to make sure she doesn't get pregnant with current boyfriend Jose Swash.
Speaking on today's Loose Women, Stacey - who is mum to boys Zachary, nine, and Leighton, four, - opened up about her fears of becoming pregnant again.
She said: "I was always feel really selfish saying this, and I feel bad because I know that loads of people find it really hard to conceive, including my sister who really struggled.
"But I have to work hard for the opposite...I have to be really careful not to get pregnant because I feel like I look at a man and it can happen.
"At the moment we have to be really, really careful and choose our days and our methods and use as many as possible."
Nadia, clearly surprised by Stacey's confession, laughed and said: "There is no show like this one".
Last year, Stacey opened up about her fears of having children with boyfriend Joe because her two boys have two different dads.
She told new! magazine: "I don't know how many children I can have with different people. It's complicated with our own children."
Meanwhile, Stacey also revealed this week that her mum saved her from a secret battle with post-natal depression after the birth of her son Zachary.
The 27-year-old explained how she fell ill after the birth of her eldest child, now 9.
Stacey said: "I think it's important to speak up and find anyone around you who can counsel you through.
"For me personally When I had Zachary I definitely suffered post natal depression but I didn't know I was suffering from it so I wouldn't have known to even ask anyone as I didn't know what was happening to me.
"I felt really low. I didn't feel like I could relate to my child which I found really difficult to comprehend as I just thought immediately I would just be in love.
"I found really small things a really big deal, which in hindsight seems silly.
"I remember making toast and burning it and feeling like the most terrible person and mother in the world as I couldn't even make a bit of toast.
"It sounds really silly, but those things really overwhelmed me and made me feel like a terrible mother.
"I didn't know I was going through any kind of depression until my mum...
Andre McLean then interrupted Stacey mid-sentence to say: "That's the problem with mental illness.
"If your leg is hanging off you know its broken."
Stacey agreed, adding that it was her mum's own experiences that meant she was able to recognise the symptoms in her daughter and step in to help her.
She said: "I was lucky enough to have my parents with me and my mum noticed what was going on with me from the get go.
"She was able to counsel me and get me through it - but if you don't have that how do you know?"
The panel were discussing psychological well being as part of charity Time To Change's new #TimeToTalk campaign, which is designed to raise awareness and break down barriers for people suffering from all sorts of mental illness.
Stacey has previously spoken about how she struggled to adapt to motherhood.
Speaking in 2011, she said that when she first met Zachary after a 37-labour she felt "completely numb and utterly, utterly miserable."
She told the : "I looked at Zach – I suppose that I must have had some love for him as I had given him a name – and thought, 'What am I going to do?'
"I didn’t really want to hold him. I didn’t resent him, I resented myself and all I could think was that this was it, my life was over. I felt so hopeless. I didn’t want a baby.
"Because of the difficult labour I had to stay in hospital, and my family had to leave eventually. I was alone apart from the baby lying next to me. The more I cried, the more Zach screamed, and that really distressed me.
"After three days I was allowed home. He wouldn’t feed – actually I had no idea how to feed him as no one had shown me at the hospital. Mum helped to get him attached but he would cry.
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"I couldn’t express my milk well so I had him constantly at my breast. I felt like a human cow and I hated it.
"His needs seemed never-ending and I became more exhausted. No one else could get up in the night and feed him, it had to be me. You can’t take a break when you are breastfeeding, it’s you that has to be there.
"Mum helped, but I felt so terribly sad all the time. Dean came to see us but we gradually drifted apart.
"Frankly, a boyfriend was the last thing on my mind. My life blurred into one long unhappy day. My thoughts and feelings didn’t seem to be part of me – they were somewhere else in the distance."
Eventually, after her mum persuaded her to go on holiday with her friends and leave Zach with her, Stacey had a breakthrough.
She said: "When I saw him after that week away I felt overwhelmed with love.
"He looked at me and smiled. It melted my heart. I imagine it’s what mothers usually feel when their baby is first handed to them. I just had it a few months late."
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