Shawn Johnson Eastrecently took a trip to the hospital — but it wasn’t to welcome her impending little one!
At 38 weeks pregnant, the former professional gymnast, 27, revealed on Instagram that she unexpectedly spent the tail-end of her weekend in the emergency room after she dropped a piece of concrete on her foot and broke her big toe.
Despite the pain, Shawn seemed to have an optimistic outlook on the situation and even joked that the injury came at just the right time while she prepares for her little one’s arrival.
“38 weeks pregnant and in the ER……. for a broken big toe 🤣 hahaha only me,” shecaptioned a shot of herself in the hospital bedas she iced her toe next to an x-ray. “All is good, just adding a little more swag to my big mama waddle these days.”
Shawn, who isexpecting her first childwith husbandAndrew East, first opened up about the “freak accident” on her Instagram Stories Sunday night as the couple were driving home from the hospital together.
Shawn Johnson/Instagram
“I dropped a piece of concrete on my foot — a piece of concrete fell on my foot because I was real[ly] excited about petting a dog … and I broke my big toe just in half,” Shawn continued. “Pretty nasty, so that happened.”
“So just ice,” she said and sarcastically added, “Oh boy, it’s gonna be a fun night of sleep!”
The following day, Shawn updated her followers about her toe’s condition and joked about the accident’s timing.
Shawn Johnson East.Shawn Johnson/Instagram
The couple revealed the happy news that they areexpecting their first child togetherin April, sharing their announcement on Instagram and Shawn’sYouTube channel.
The East’s journey to parenthood was a long time coming, buthasn’t been without its complications.
The spouses, who tied the knot on a private farm in rural Tennessee in April 2016, previously opened up in October 2017about a miscarriage they had sufferedjust two days after they found out they were pregnant.
Ina video postedafter her 20-week appointment, the former professional gymnast said that the whole experience has given her some serious perspective.
“Everyone’s always like, ‘Oh, are you having a boy or a girl? What do you want? Are you going to put them in gymnastics? Are you going to put them in football?’ And we had those thoughts in the beginning,” she said.
But during this phase of her pregnancy, the first-time mom-to-be isn’t worried about those aspects.
source: people.com
