2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
Her entire life, Michelle Galván says she trained herself to report bad news, not to receive it. The Primer Impacto (Univision) cohost has worked as a news anchor for years, covering natural disasters and tragedies, but nothing could have prepared her for the shock and grief she would experience in her personal life. In February 2018, she had planned part of a show to announce the happy news: She was six months pregnant with her first baby boy! Galván and her husband, Mexican chef and entrepreneur Fernando Guajardo, were over the moon with joy and had celebrated the pregnancy news in December of 2017 with a romantic trip to Paris, where they bought their future som, Lázaro, his first baby shoes on their way to the Eiffel Tower.
For the months that followed, the couple prepared their home in Miami to welcome their son, bought him clothes and toys and started decorating his room. However, a day before the big TV announcement, Galván's happiness was shattered. She called her husband when she started feeling sick at work, and I've rushed her to the hospital. “You feel as if you are going to faint, very weak,” the Mexican journalist, 30, recalls of her miscarriage. "You start bleeding out of nowhere, your belly contracts." There was nothing the doctors could do to save the fetus. “My baby died before he was born,” she told People en Español exclusively in the magazine's latest issue, now on newsstands.
Coming back home from the hospital without her baby was devastating, the Emmy winner says. "You ask God: 'Why you?'" She admits. “I returned home destroyed, and Fernando tells me: 'Let's pray,'” she recalls of her husband's plea to keep their faith. She reluctantly opened her Bible to a page marked by a red ribbon. “When I open that page and see a passage about the resurrection of Lazarus, my world was turned upside down,” Galván says, since she had named her unborn baby Lázaro as a sign of devotion to this miraculous saint. "I felt peace when I saw that page because I knew the baby was in God's arms."
Galván saw her pregnancy as a miracle in itself, since she had been diagnosed with endometriosis and thrombophilia, two conditions that make her pregnancies high risk. However, she and her husband got their hopes up again when the TV host began feeling dizzy while covering the Latin Grammys in Las Vegas in November 2018. Another pregnancy test turned out positive. She was now expecting a baby girl they would name Roberta. "The emotion was the same," says her husband of their second-pregnancy joy. "I always dreamed of having a little girl." However, their happiness was short-lived. She was almost three months pregnant when she felt sick again after coming home from a concert in Miami with her husband. They rushed to the hospital again, only to find out she had had another miscarriage.
“The hardest thing is going back to normal, not talking about it,” admits the TV host, who returned to work before the Univision cameras with a smile, hiding her grief. "People can be cruel," adds the Mexican journalist, who says she was bullied on social media. She received comments from followers like "she gained weight" or "she got breast implants." They had no clue that she was dealing with a heartbreaking loss, and her breasts were still filled with maternal milk.
She overcame depression by going to a therapist, doings lots of exercise to stay positive and going to a spiritual yoga retreat in Costa Rica, she says. “It's a grieving process that's forbidden by our society. When a woman has a pregnancy loss people discredit her loss, they minimize it. They don't know what [that baby] meant to you. You love him from the first time you feel him inside of you. It's a terrible pain,”Galván adds. She asks the Latin community to be less judgmental and put less pressure on women to have children at a young age.
Galván and her husband have unwavering faith that they will soon welcome a healthy son or daughter via natural pregnancy. While they keep praying for a new positive pregnancy test, the couple is open to trying fertility treatments or adoption if that's what's next on their journey to becoming parents. "Since we got married, I ask God every day to make my dream of being a mom a reality," Galván concludes. “That's my biggest dream, it's not a job, it's being a mom. Our arms our wide open for God to send us another baby.”
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