Shawn Johnson Says Having a C-Section Made Her Feel Like She'd "Failed"

Shawn Johnson Says Having a C-Section Made Her Feel Like She’d “Failed” Shawn Johnson and her husband Andrew East just welcomed their first baby, Drew Hazel East, into the world. But the birth of her first child didn’t go as planned, and the Olympian feels guilty about it. She chose to get an epidural and eventually a C-section—two things she doesn't feel great about. “At 22 hours when we were told I had to get a c section I felt like I had failed,” she confessed. Shawn Johnson While a C-section may not be part of every mother’s birth plan, when your baby needs to come out, anything goes. Giving birth via C-section doesn’t make you any less of a “real mom” than those who give birth the old-fashioned way.