Jade Roper’s son may have had a ‘heart condition’ before miscarriage
Bachelor in Paradise Jade Roper explains what may have led to her miscarriage earlier this year.
“Our sweet Beau was diagnosed with Down Syndrome, so we think his little heart wasn’t strong enough,” Roper, 36, wrote via an Instagram Story Q&A on Wednesday, November 1, after a fan asked what might have “caused” her . recent pregnancy loss. “Many DS diagnoses are associated with congenital heart disease.”
Roper – who shares three children with husband Tanner Tolbert – announced in August that she had suffered a miscarriage with her fourth child, a son named Beau. (The couple, who tied the knot in 2016 after meeting on Season 2 of BiP, welcomed daughter Emerson in 2017, son Brooks in 2019 and son Reed in 2020.)
“I’ve had a hard time [with] what am I supposed to write here while I’m going through a miscarriage,” Roper wrote via Instagram at the time. “It felt like all my dreams came true to welcome another baby into our lives, to love and complete our family. While our hearts [are] completely broken and dealing with the deep and complex grief of loss, we are blessed to have been touched by his soul during his short time. I am changed forever.”
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She explained to her followers at the time that she had experienced a “missed miscarriage,” meaning that even though “his heart has stopped and he hasn’t been growing (for a while), my body hasn’t released the pregnancy yet.” She noted that she “hoped to do this naturally” and avoid any medical intervention.
However, after sharing the news of the pregnancy loss, Roper was briefly hospitalized due to a possible infection. The lab results were normal, but she ended up having surgery weeks later.
“Well, here we are. I didn’t want or expect it to go this way, but it did,” she wrote via Instagram after the operation. “I wanted so badly to bury him under a beautiful tree in our garden, just to get a glimpse of his little body, and that’s why I put up with it for so long in an attempt to trust my body. But it is time to heal and see the other side of this loss.”
The following month, Roper described her experience during an Instagram Story Q&A after a social media user asked how she recognized she was having a miscarriage. She said she had no “symptoms” except that she “didn’t feel pregnant in certain ways anymore” and had an “inner knowing” where she “felt he was gone.”
Roper has been open about her fertility issues over the years. The ‘Mommies Tell All’ podcast host – who got engaged to Tolbert during the season 2 finale of BiPwhich premiered in August 2015 — became pregnant on ABC’s dating series, but only found out when she visited her then-fiancé in Kansas City.
“I just knew I was late and something felt different,” Roper shared in a February 2019 YouTube video, noting that the duo confirmed the news with a pregnancy test and made plans to move in together before giving birth would lose a baby. “At the time I wasn’t really grieving because I just didn’t know how to process it. It went so fast. In a really bad way, it was almost like this relief. It wasn’t until after I had Emerson that I realized how much I love my child and how wonderful a miracle he is, and I think I really saddened that child much later.
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The couple married in January 2016 in Dana Point, California and welcomed daughter Emerson in 2017. In July 2020, Roper revealed that she suffered another loss due to a “chemical pregnancy” before welcoming son Brooks in 2019.
“I don’t talk about it [either miscarriage] very much publicly, probably because I still always cry even though a lot of time has passed, and it always amazes me that there is so much more under the surface,” she wrote via her Instagram Story at the time.