Shawn Johnson Welcomes Toddler No. 2 With Andrew East
Shawn Johnson has made an announcement of Olympic proportions: She’s now a mom of two below two!
The 29-one year-archaic retired gymnast has given delivery to her and her husband Andrew East‘s second youngster and first son. “We are fully in cherish with our little man,” Shawn and Andrew, who’re additionally fogeys to 20-month-archaic daughter Drew Hazel East, solely present E! News. “Drew is so candy with him—you are going to be ready to divulge she’s already such an unlimited nice sister.”
The couple additionally shared the news on their Teddy & Bear Instagram web allege. “We’re so excited to screech a brand new pal is here!” their message, posted on July 20, learn. “Mother and child are doing well and we can not wait to meet our new pal!”
The Olympic gold medalist announced her being pregnant this past January. She and Andrew published the intercourse of their second-born at a occasion with mates and family in March.
Shawn documented her most modern being pregnant on Instagram, in overall sharing adorable child bump photos and videos. On July 1, she said on her Instagram Yarn that she had two weeks to whisk before her due date and detailed her emotions making ready for child No. 2.
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“Feel cherish this took topic moving before Drew too…” the athlete wrote. “Possess formally hit the wall the put I place no longer are searching to work, I am stressed out about the entire lot, overthinking the entire lot, changeable, and exhausted. All I in actual fact rep room to deem about is our little family and little man on the technique.”
The toll road to motherhood became as soon as tense for Shawn. She got pregnant with Drew more than a one year after struggling a miscarriage. And right thru this past being pregnant, her family suffered about a health scares.
Drew battled Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), a traditional illness that causes cool-cherish symptoms and which is in most cases relaxed nonetheless can trigger serious complications in babies. Additionally right thru her most modern being pregnant alongside with her son, Shawn examined sure for the coronavirus.
“1: I place no longer are searching to rep my family in wretched health,” the gymnastics champion said on her Instagram Yarn in leisurely January, checklist her concerns. “2. I in actual fact rep bronchial asthma and rep had it my entire existence so this scares me a little extra,” she defined. “3: had a truly shut family member fight for his existence closing month whereas struggling with Covid so it is miles a serious topic of topic/hits home in our family.”
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Shawn told E! News that her most modern being pregnant became as soon as unexpected. “We said we would commence making an strive spherical a one year thinking it would consume no lower than a one year,” she said in January. “So this became as soon as a shock. So we did no longer deem it would happen this mercurial or we would be going thru this this soon, nonetheless we kinda appropriate rep the mindset of we are of us that cherish our sleep and cherish our routine and cherish appropriate having some steadiness in existence.”
Shawn is an handiest youngster, whereas her husband has four siblings. She told E! News, “I truly cherish seeing that bond that they’ve, so it became as soon as roughly a dream of mine to rep children beautiful decently shut so they might perchance even merely develop up together and be beautiful shut together.”
In April, at 26 weeks alongside and past the purpose of viability, Shawn detailed how different her contemporary being pregnant felt.
“And I place no longer know if that’s because my standard of living is so loopy, chasing a child spherical or if it is in actual fact, cherish, appropriate a particular being pregnant,” she told E! News. “However I will deliver the handiest thing that makes it more easy is because I in actual fact rep a child, I haven’t got as powerful psychological capability to anguish and honestly overlook I am pregnant plenty, which is a factual thing moving now appropriate since it takes your mind off of that fear. And on to the worry of a child. So it is, , loopy. However it completely’s been broad.”
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics Opening Ceremony airs Friday, July 23 on NBC.
