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Jenna Bush Hager announced on the "Today" show that she is expecting a third child with her husband Henry Hager.
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Jenna Bush Hager is excited to wait for her third child, but says she is too familiar with the "pain" related to pregnancy complications and fertility issues.

The co-host of the 37-year-old "Today" broadcast talked about an unsuccessful pregnancy before her first child. Hager revealed that she had learned that something was wrong shortly after finding out she was waiting.

"Before I had Mila, I had a pregnancy in my fallopian tube," Hager told Meredith Vieira during The episode of Tuesday. "It was my first pregnancy … I went to the doctor and she said," Yes, you are pregnant, we have a blood test, but we can not find the baby. "

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The excitement of Hager quickly turned to shock. She said, "I had no idea what an ectopic pregnancy was, they looked up and the baby was in my fallopian tube."

An ectopic pregnancy occurs when a "fertilized egg is implanted and develops outside the main uterine cavity," according to the Mayo Clinic. The "fertilized egg" can not survive "and can cause life-threatening bleeding if the fallopian tube (which normally transports eggs from the ovaries to the uterus) breaks.

Jenna Bush Hager is pregnant with a third child (Photo: Getty)

Hager added that she had been operated on urgently to have her fallopian tube removed, while her husband, Henry Chase Hager, and twin sister, Barbara Pierce Bush, were both out of town. .

"I was alone," says Hager emotionally, calling this test "very insulating".

The daughter of former President George W. Bush and The first lady, Laura Bush, continued, "There is joy and sorrow."

Hager's revelation was made a day after announcing that she was expecting Baby # 3. "I'm going to be very pregnant, so I do not know how I hid her," Hager said Monday. smiling. She's going to have a boy.

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The couple share two girls together – Mila, 6, and Poppy, 3.

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