Bachelor star Mia MacKinnon has welcomed her first baby—a little girl—with fiancé Joshua William King.
The former reality TV star, 33, shared the happy news to Instagram on Wednesday, revealing she gave birth to ‘Malibu Emma Malua King’ on August 8.
‘You are perfection,’ she captioned a reel of photos of the bub dressed in a baby pink knitted onesie and matching booties.
A few days later, Mia shared another gallery of photos taken as she cradled Malibu in the hospital, and later after she and Joshua took their bundle of joy home.
In one photo, Joshua looked every inch the proud father as he held Malibu in his arms and smiled down at her.
However, it would seem not everything was sunshine and rainbows, as Mia revealed she was left ‘terrified’ when complications arose during her birth.
Bachelor star Mia MacKinnon, 33, has welcomed her first baby—a little girl—with fiancé Joshua William King
The former reality TV star shared the happy news to Instagram on Wednesday, revealing she gave birth to ‘Malibu Emma Malua King’ on August 8
The brunette beauty said it all began when she developed persistent headache last Thursday before she went into labour.
She rushed into hospital to get checked out and doctors discovered her ‘amniotic sac had no fluid in it’.
‘We were told I might have to be induced… A catheter balloon induction quickly began and our baby girl did not like that,’ Mia revealed.
‘They stripped me down and said we might need to make a quick sprint for surgery any moment.
‘Things calmed and on came the most excruciating pain which felt like contractions with zero break in between for 30 mins.’
Mia said her dreams of having a water birth were quickly scrapped since she had no fluids in her amniotic sac—the membrane in which the embryo develops into a fetus.
The new mum added she had ‘no sleep’ and was running on a ‘McDonald’s feast’ by the time she had her catheter removed and went into labour the next morning.
‘I tried for hours without an epidural but Malibu’s heart rate kept dropping with every contraction, so it was suggested we finally give in to an epidural to help her relax and to promote dilation,’ she said.
‘You are perfection,’ she captioned a reel of photos of the bub dressed in a baby pink knitted onesie and matching booties
A few days later, Mia shared another gallery of photos taken as she cradled Malibu in the hospital, and later after she and Joshua took their bundle of joy home
In one photo, Joshua looked every inch the proud father as he held Malibu in his arms and smiled down at her
‘It knocked me out and a few hours later we checked. Still no progress so it was time for an emergency caesarean.
‘We mentally prepared, and a terrified mum and dad went down to theatre. The drugs were so strong that I could not stop shaking uncontrollably to the point where the midwives were pinning my arms down to help.’
Mia said she ‘felt hopeless’ as she went in for the ‘heartbreaking’ surgery, and revealed she couldn’t even hold Malibu when she was born because she ‘was too weak and busy throwing up’.
‘Lucky my beautiful fiancé, who I can’t even put into words how grateful I am for, took our baby girl for her first cuddles, and fed her her first meal!’ Mia said.
‘Not long after I was carted up to our home for the next 6 days. Too high on drugs to really grasp what happened.
‘Josh again took over and cared for our princess until the morning when I woke up. What a whirlwind, but wow was it all worth it.’
Mia and Joshua announced in January they were expecting their first child together.
They shared images to Instagram which saw them cuddling up and cradling Mia’s baby bump as they posed on the beach together.
Just a few months later, on April 6, Joshua got down on one knee and asked Mia to marry him.
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