Skylar Grayhas entered the building!
On Wednesday, July 10,The Real Housewives of Orange CountyalumGretchen Rossibecame a mom, giving birth to her first child with fiancéSlade Smiley, her rep exclusively confirms to PEOPLE.
“God is Great!! 🙏🏻🙌🏻 Skylar Gray Smiley arrived safely into this world today! ❤️ Most amazing & emotional day of my life! I am doing good as well 🙈 of course I have some pain from the c-section, but it was all so worth it!” she wrote. “Details and pics coming soon! But for now just focusing on Sky and taking good care of her. Thank you all for your prayers and love today! ❤️😘 Love you guys!”
The couple’s newborn daughter joins big brothers Gavin and Grayson, Smiley’s two sons from previous relationships.
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Rossi, 41, and Smiley firstrevealed her pregnancyonThe Doctorsin December, which they achieved after a vasectomy reversal on Smiley’s part and multiple rounds of in vitro fertilization (IVF). It has been a long road to motherhood for the formerBravopersonality and Smiley, who celebrated 10 years together this past February.
“We knew that we had to go through IVF in order to get pregnant,” Rossi previously told PEOPLE. “We went through a round of IVF and in that round we had 14 embryos that came out of that. We were so excited and just beyond ecstatic about the results.”
But about six hours before they were going to do the embryo transfer, the pair received a phone call from the doctor “saying thatall of the embryos had arrested and basically died.”
“We were just beyond devastated. I couldn’t even get out of bed because you just go from such a high thinking within the next 24 hours you were going to be pregnant to losing everything and losing 14 embryos. That was really, really hard for me and Slade to come out of that,” Rossi admitted.
Slade Smiley and Gretchen Rossi.REAL Footage/Instagram
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But the couple kept pushing forward — and it paid off. As the then-mom-to-be told PEOPLE, “There’s been a roller coaster of emotions through this and I don’t want to pretend, especially for allthe couples out there going through this, it’s not an easy journey — it really is not. Yes, we have definitely grown through this, thank goodness.”
After mingling with guests and enjoying refreshments, Rossi (wearing a pink-and-blue dress) and Smiley, sporting a pink shirt under a gray jacket, stood in front of a sign reading “[Twinkle, Twinkle] Little Star, How We Wonder What You Are”for the big reveal, where the couple pulled on their cannons to reveal clouds of pink smoke and confetti.
The former reality staropened up about her daughter’s namein April, tellingAccess Hollywoodthat she has had Skylar first picked out since she was little and that her middle name, Gray, was chosen in honor of Smiley’steenage son, who has brain cancer: “He has been this angel on Earth, and he is this unbreakable, amazing little man.”
Among the gourmet spread was a huge variety of desserts — the centerpiece of which was a six-tier wedding-style cake in shades of pale pink and white, with a gold-detailed crown on top. But, as Rossi teased the crowd, even though there was an ordained pastor at the event, she and Smiley would not be turning it into a wedding.
“We’re not getting married, I hate to burst your bubble,” she said. “Yes, my dress is white. And we thought about it for a very small second and then I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be fun to have another big party?’ ”
Gretchen Rossi.Oxana Alex Photography
“Doctor said I am only dilated 1cm and I guess I have a ‘cervix of steel’ 😜 so it’s not really cooperating at this point and just my pelvic exam yesterday was so beyond painful that I almost passed out, then started to hyperventilate because of that, which then lead to a panic attack! Needless to say I was a hot mess!” she wrote.
“When you have this vision of how you want your labor and delivery to go and itdoesn’t turn out [the] way you imagined, there is this sadness and internal struggle with ‘why isn’t my body cooperating’ or am I making the right decision etc,” she said.
source: people.com
