Tatyana Ali Traumatic Birth Story: Actress Says Doctors Pushed Edward Back Inside

Tatyana Ali’s tatyana ali traumatic birth story centers on her 2016 delivery of her son Edward, when she says doctors pushed him back inside her. She described the birth as traumatic on the April 27 episode of Pod Meets World, and tied it to the risks she says followed after Edward arrived.

Ali said, “I mean, I'll be real with you: They pushed him back inside me,” and added, “My baby was all the way crowned.” She said her records show Edward went from the lowest station to the highest station, but “it doesn't say how that happened.”

Edward’s 2016 delivery

Ali said she was held down for hours while giving birth to her first child with husband Vaughn Rasberry, with her birth plan “wasn't followed” despite what she described as a really healthy pregnancy. She said, “All of that changed once we got into the hospital,” and added that the doctors kept her from moving while the delivery was unfolding.

She also said, “It's an incredibly dangerous thing that they did,” and, “They could have snapped his neck.” Those are not abstract complaints; they are her account of a delivery that she says placed both her and Edward at risk during labor in 2016.

NICU time after birth

Edward later spent time in the neonatal intensive care unit because of complications Ali attributed to the delivery. She said he could not pee on his own for about five or six days, and quoted a pediatric urologist as saying, “I saw what happened during your birth, the things that resulted in this emergency C-section,” followed by, “I think the traumatic nature of his birth is what is causing this.”

Ali said, “I'm supposed to say something because all the people I'm talking to, no one puts a mic in their face,” then drew the larger line to maternal health by saying, “Black women are three to four times more likely to die in childbirth.” That is the practical part of her account: a single delivery story that she says ended in NICU care, extended recovery, and a warning about how Black mothers are treated in labor.

Danielle Fishel podcast

The story surfaced on the April 27 episode of Danielle Fishel’s podcast, where Ali revisited the birth in direct language and refused to soften it. Her conclusion was blunt: “God, I'm going to take all the things you give me—the good and the bad—and do something with it.”