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There she is! Hours after Gretchen Rossi slammed commenters for pressuring her to post pictures of her newborn daughter, the Real Housewives of Orange County alum shared a series of gorgeous photos of the 1-week-old. “And then there was 3. Thank you to the good Lord above for the most precious gift we have ever […]
“This was right out of surgery and the very first time I got to hold my baby girl,” the Real Housewives of Orange County alum, 40, captioned a Thursday, July 18, Instagram upload. “This was the most amazing exhilarating feeling, and a moment that will be forever engrained in my mind. #firstmoments.”
“Slade has been the best support any woman could dream of,” the new mom told Us Weekly exclusively the day after Skylar Gray’s arrival. “He is a rock of strength!”
The bundle of joy arrived via C-section, and Rossi opened up making that difficult decision earlier this month. “I went from thinking I can do this and have a vaginal birth to now, the doctor, Slade and everyone [are] suggesting that I reconsider and just do a C-section,” the Michigan native explained on social media at the time. “I think it’s the right thing. It’s the safest thing for me and the baby at this point because [the doctor] says I have a cervix of steel and it’s not wanting to open up.”
Gretchen Rossi attends the Hilary Roberts birthday celebration and the Red Songbird Foundation launch party at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on May 11, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California.Paul Archuleta/Getty Images
While Rossi called her surgery recovery “some of the toughest days [she] has ever navigated” in Thursday’s post, she went on to say that she feels “so beyond blessed.”
It has been a difficult road to parenthood for many celebrity parents, including Chrissy Teigen and John Legend. After in vitro fertilization didn’t work on the first try, Teigen wondered if she had done something wrong. “You just look for anything to blame, especially yourself,” Teigen explained to New York Magazine’s The Cut in April […]
“I was nervous, scared, in pain and not sure I was doing it all correctly,” the actress wrote. “But I had an amazing support system between the hospital staff, my parents, my brother, and my dearest of friends all surrounding me and telling me I got this and was doing a good job!”
