Jason Kennedy and Lauren Scruggs are formally mother and father!
The previous E! Information host, 40, and style blogger, 33, introduced through Instagram on Monday that they welcomed their first little one, a child boy named Ryver Rhodes Kennedy.
The 2 each shared a collection of pics from their son’s arrival, together with a candy snap of Kennedy leaning in to Scruggs’ hospital mattress as she cradled their bundle of pleasure.
One other photograph featured the brand new mother mendacity down as Ryver leaned on her arm and adorably peered as much as the digicam.
“ryver rhodes kennedy.💙,” they each wrote of their captions.
Following Ryver’s beginning, Kennedy spoke to Access Hollywood about what life with their new child has been like to date.
“Making an attempt to give you phrases to completely course of the final 48 hours aren’t doable,” he admitted. “Seeing my son for the primary time felt like a film. I stored closing my eyes and at last realized it was true.”
The media persona added that he and his spouse – who’ve been candid about their years-long fertility struggles – “love this boy a lot and are so grateful for this time collectively.”
He additionally confirmed that mother and child “are doing nice,” earlier than joking, “Can somebody assist me with this automobile seat?”
Kennedy and Scruggs – who tied the knot in December 2014 – introduced they had been anticipating in September 2021 after virtually 5 years of attempting.
In January of that 12 months, they determined to publicly chronicle their strategy of present process in vitro fertilization.
“It’s at all times robust when a physician tells you you may’t have youngsters naturally and you retain operating into problems, however we didn’t sit and wallow in that,” Kennedy told People on the time. “We had been actually blessed to satisfy with some superb medical doctors and specialists.”
Of their resolution to doc their IVF journey through social media, Kennedy instructed the outlet that his spouse was “recreation for every little thing,” particularly the early-morning physician runs when she “wasn’t within the temper” to be filmed.
“We shortly realized that posting about our story welcomed us right into a group of individuals going by way of the identical factor,” he added. “We had been deeply moved by the love and assist of so many individuals that had been rooting us on in our fertility journey.”
Throughout her being pregnant, Scruggs penned a blog post about how she and “Jase” had made all the mandatory preparations for an at-home beginning.
Nevertheless, the couple’s Instagram posts appear to disclose that Ryver was born in a hospital.
