Kim Kardashian describes moment of birth 'My doctor had to stick his entire arm in me and detach the placenta with his hand' during North's painful birth

Kim Kardashian opened up about her painful first birth, as she welcomed daughter North - admitting the doctor was forced to use his fingernails to detach her placenta from her uterus. The reality star revealed her fears over her upcoming second birth in a lengthy post on her website, admitting she was left in agony from the ordeal.

 She said:

"This is a high-risk condition that happens when the placenta grows too deeply into the uterine wall," she explained.

"My doctor had to stick his entire arm in me and detach the placenta with his hand, scraping it away from my uterus with his fingernails. How disgusting and painful!!!

"My mom was crying; she had never seen anything like this before. My delivery was fairly easy, but then going through that - it was the most painful experience of my life! They gave me a second epidural but we were racing against time, so I just had to deal."

"I'm so thankful that my doctor was able to catch this and address the issue immediately," she wrote.

"After all of that, I still had a piece of placenta attached inside of me and I had to have surgery to remove it. Then I had another surgery to remove the scar tissue. This was all preventing me from getting pregnant the second time around."

Admitting her fears ahead of welcoming her son, Kim wrote: "My anxiety is a little high leading up to my delivery. In a very rare case, I might need a hysterectomy after delivery if my condition is severe enough, but luckily my doctor doesn't think this will happen.

"So as time goes on, I am stressing out less and trying to go with the flow.

"I have some days I get SO scared but then I speak to my doctor, Dr. Paul Crane, and he always calms me down. He has been my doctor forever - he was my mom's doctor who delivered me!"