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'I kissed him on the forehead': Nik Richie reveals heartbreaking details about dead baby and says wife Shayne Lamas 'died' for TWO minutes on operating table

PUBLISHED: 11:33 EST, 5 March 2014 | UPDATED: 14:51 EST, 5 March 2014

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Shayne Lamas was widely believed to have suffered a miscarriage when she was hospitalized in early February.

But in an interview with InTouch, the 28-year-old and husband Nik Richie, 35, explained that wasn't the case. Their son, who they later named Rex Jagger, had been growing halfway outside her uterus and was attached to both her womb and bladder, making it impossible to have a healthy pregnancy.

'The doctors hadn't seen anything like it,' Lamas, who was on season 12 of The Bachelor, revealed.

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Just getting back to normal: Shayne Lamas - here with husband Nik Richie - opened up to InTouch about losing her unborn baby

When her placenta became punctured, the daughter of actor Lorenzo Lamas began to hemorrhage. In order to save the beauty's life, the unborn child had to be spared.

'The doctors told me, "The baby is killing her. We have to remove the fetus or Shayne is going to die,"' Richie told the weekly.

'It wasn't a miscarriage. It was them having to kill our child to save my wife.'

Precious family: The 28-year-old posted a picture of herself and Nik with their two-year-old daughter Press Dahl Lamas-Richie over Christmas saying how lucky she felt as she was 'living the dream'

It all started when the former reality star was relaxing at home on February 9.

She was 20 weeks pregnant with her second child - she already has daughter, Press, aged two, with Nik - and was watching cartoons in her living room.

'Out of nowhere, I had cramps like I'd never felt before, coming from all sides of my stomach - worse than labor,' she said. She then passed out and the rest was 'all a blur.'

Second pregnancy: Shayne - pictured on the couple's wedding anniversary in 2012 - was 20 weeks pregnant but lost the baby during her life saving surgery

When she woke up she was told not only was her baby gone, but she had been given a hysterectomy.

'I screamed from the top of my lungs,' she told InTouch. 'You never think something like this will happen to you.'

Nik said his wife lost 15 pints of blood and doctors weren't sure if she would make it.

'She died on the table and they brought her back,' TheDirty.com founder said.

'The doctors said it was an absolute miracle. There were two minutes where she lost oxygen to her brain.'

Reality star: Shayne was previously engaged to Matt Grant who asked the actress to marry him on season 12 of The Bachelor

Lamas was put into a coma as Richie said goodbye to Rex. 'I picked him up and I told him how much we loved him,' said Nik. 'I kissed him on the forehead, held his hand and told him I would see him one day.'

The blogger added: 'He was the most beautiful child. He looked just like Shayne.'

Rex's ashes have been scattered in the Pacific Ocean.

Though Lamas had a hysterectomy, doctors were able to save her ovaries which means she can have more children.

'I'll be able to give my eggs to a surrogate,' she said. 'I absolutely will have more kids. I want that for my family.'

Now she's just trying to get back to 'normal.'

'It's so hard when I'm giving Press a bath and I picture that there was supposed to be another one in the tub,' the actress added. 'I'd started to clean the newborn clothes. Now I can't bear to look at them. For the rest of my life, I'm going to think of my son who never got to live.'

When the TV star came back to - after her heart stopped briefly on Valentine's Day - she reached out to her fans.

'Thank you for all your thoughts and prayers. I've cried reading the expression of generosity and warmth from everyone,' she said.

'I'm out of ICU at Mission Viejo Hospital. I cannot thank the medical staff here enough for not giving up on me.'

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Judas Priest, The World, United States, 20 hours ago

The child was attached to her bladder. Odds are, it wouldnt have survived either way.

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JJ Posh, machias, United States, 21 hours ago

This is truly a tragedy BUT the article makes it sound as though they were given a choice to save her or the child, and as another commenter pointed out, that is horrible to convey. At 20weeks along there would not be a choice as the baby could not possibly survive being born that premature. The only other option would have been to lose both of them, not one or the other. I hope the best for their family.

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Jojo, London, Italy, 21 hours ago

I don't know who these people are, but what a tragedy they're going through! To lose a child, of any age, is something no person should experience.

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krissyp, anywhere, United States, 22 hours ago

Oh enough already. Keep things private and stop sharing the most private of moments with the whole world.

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Fact Checker, Across the pond, United States, 22 hours ago

I'm so sorry for this sad tragedy and hope they can find peace and healing. But how on earth did she make it to 20 weeks without a doctor detecting this?

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annette, RGV, United States, 23 hours ago

This must be so traumatic for both of them. All my best wishes to Shayne and her family.

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carls, liverpool, United Kingdom, 23 hours ago

Details of dead baby??? You really need to choose your words more wise DM . Disgusting

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Chelly, Austin, United States, 23 hours ago

Nik Richie is a total jerk. I don't wish anything bad on anyone, but he has supported the cruelest posts that talk about people's dead babies--including a friend of mine who lost hers. So...I mean...maybe this would be a good turning point for him to take off his horrid website that promotes bullying to the absolute low of the low.

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Lucianne, Moonville, United States, 1 day ago

This is sad. Nice of them to share now extensive their situation became. Thankfully they can have more children via surrogates. Hopefully as time goes by they will reconsider on the belief their baby was killed to save the mom. There's got to be another term for what the doctors were forced to do without using the 'A' word.