After a stressful pregnancy and a series of complications, Mira Sorvino gave birth to her third child, Holden Paul Terry Backus, and both mother and son are doing well.
Sorvino and husband, Christopher Backus, were thrilled to welcome 8-pound, 12-ounce Holden on June 22 in Los Angeles.
"As soon as they placed him in my arms I knew it had all been worth it," Sorvino told People.com. "He is my miracle baby. With everything that threatened this pregnancy and both of our lives, he came out of it completely unscathed: perfectly healthy, beautiful and wonderful!"
Holden joins 4-year-old sister, Mattea, and 3-year-old brother, Johnny. In an official statement, the couple announced, "We ared to bring our beautiful healthy son home to his brother and sister. We are blessed to have a home filled with so much love."
Sorvino faced considerable difficulties with her third pregnancy, including placenta previa, which forced her to spend weeks in the hospital and then be on bed rest.
"I developed a blood clot due to all the inactivity and had to be anti-coagulated for months to prevent a pulmonary embolism," she explained. "I spent another 2-1/2 weeks at the hospital, during which time, missing the children and my husband and knowing what the separation was doing to the kids became almost unbearable. Prior to this nine-week hospital stay, I had only ever spent one night away from Johnny and Mattea."
The 41-year-old actress also suffered through a long labor and delivery. "The baby was very big and he came a couple of weeks early so it took longer than we thought," she said. "During the day we had some scary difficulties with the epidural as I achieved almost no progress with the labor and then at night the placenta created problems again. Although it was not blocking the baby's path as it had done for almost the entire pregnancy, it started causing me a substantial loss of blood. Just as we began begging for a C-section, the situation turned around and the end of the birth was very easy."
But it was all worth it in the end for Sorvino, who says Mattea and Johnny love playing with their new baby brother. "They make up songs to sing to him! My only challenge has been convincing them not to touch him and pet him while he's sleeping, because they wake him up!"
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