Doireann Garrihy has candidly opened up about having an emergency C-section.

The RTÉ star welcomed her first child, a daughter named Rosie, with her comedian husband Mark Mehigan in October.

Taking to her Instagram Stories today, the new mum shared an honest update on life since becoming a mum, and how her birthing experience didn’t go according to plan.

Speaking to the camera while Rosie took a nap, Doireann told her followers: “I just thought I’d say hello. It’s been three weeks today since I went in to have Rosie…

“I haven’t obviously spoken to Instagram since I came out of hospital and had her, so I just decided I’d say, ‘Hello. How are we?’

“A massive thank you so much for all of the gorgeous messages and comments. There’s nothing I can say to summarise how amazing it’s been, it’s just been the most gorgeous bubble of love. So, thank you,” she continued.

“The support has been incredible, especially from fellow moms. I just can’t get over how amazing women, mothers are, the DMs and the comments at all hours of the day.”

“I think it was obvious from the first photo we posted that I had a C-section,” Doireann shared.

“It was an emergency C-section, and the amount of other women who’ve had that and reached out with advice about recovery or just to say ‘Go easy on yourself.’ Every bit of advice and support has been amazing.

“I knew people would know when we posted that photo that I’d had a C-section. I’d never said in advance that I was going to have one, so I think it was very obvious it was a last-minute thing.

“Mark looks like something out of Grey’s Anatomy in the photo. I do not look my best,” she said with a laugh. “But I wanted to post it because I wanted to show what it was really like in the moment.”

“It’s great to do all the picture-perfect stuff and the lovely baby bits, but it’s important to be real as well. I’m excited to eventually speak about what it was like and to share [the story].”

Doireann’s husband Mark previously shared that she had an emergency C-section on his podcast, Mark Mehigan’s Weekly Roast.

“We had an emergency section. That wasn’t planned and that wasn’t something that we were expecting. So, that in itself was a lot for Doireann, and I suppose for me as well.

“I don’t think I was prepared in any way for that. You are very much just being brought into a full-blown surgery operating theatre. It all just happened so quickly…”

“We hadn’t expected there to be a section, because the way that it worked, it looked all straight forward, and then it just wasn’t,” he admitted.

Describing Doireann’s labour, Mark noted: “For somebody to be in that much pain for that length of time is mental. With the level of agony that they experience, there’s a moment when she would get a contraction and I would see her face sort of change structure.

“She’d lose her breath and she would be experiencing a pain that the human body isn’t even designed to express. The pain is so severe and intense that she can’t even, like, crying wouldn’t be sufficient or yelping wouldn’t actually be enough.”

“The first time I held Rosie, I was holding Doireann’s hand […] I’m taking my phone out [to take photos], holding Doireann and looking her in the eyes, just praying that everything is okay, and then you just hear the cry, and it’s like, as soon as you hear the crying, you’re crying.

“[The midwife] gets her into Doireann’s arms and it’s just like, everything in an instant, in that split second, you realise that all of your worries, not that they weren’t valid, but it’s like they don’t matter, and this is now the thing that you’re worrying about, and this is the only thing that you will worry about. Everything else is just minimised in a heartbeat,” Mark added.