Stacey Solomon has given birth to her fifth child.
The Loose Women star, 33, and husband Joe Swash, 40, shared their happy news with fans on Instagram after weeks of speculation about their new arrival.
Following days of silence on social media the star took to her Instagram Stories this evening to address her unusual lack of online activity, sharing a snap of herself taken while pregnant and writing: "To my little family on here...
"I didn't realise I wasn't quite prepared for the crazy quick whirlwind that occured right after I took this picture.
"I'm so excited to share with you that...."
Stacey also shared a grid post, sharing the first snap of her newborn baby girl as she revealed that she gave birth in Pickle Cottage.
"She’s Here. Our beautiful, daughter born at home with all of your brothers and sister ready to snuggle you forever and ever.
"You literally flew into our world and none of us can quite believe your thick dark head of hair that we just can’t get over.
"We can’t believe your here. Welcome to the world beautiful girl, thank you for the last few months in my tummy, we can’t wait to love you forever and ever we are so grateful we get to be your family."
Proud new parents Stacey and Joe have yet to reveal the name of their little one.
"Exquisite! Just beautiful! Mazeltov to the whole family," Vanessa Feltz commented as Stacey shared her happy news on Saturday night.
"The joy I feel for all of you is overwhelming," mum-to-be Jessie added, as Loose Women's official Instagram account wrote: "Congratulations Stacey she’s beautiful."
Stacey is now a proud mum to the newborn, one-year-old daughter Rose and son Rex, three, who she shares with Joe, and sons Zachary, 14, and Leighton, ten, from relationships before she met the EastEnders star.
While Joe is also dad to son Harry.
Stacey and Joe revealed they were expecting their fifth baby in December, with Stacey admitting it was a 'huge surprise.'
The news came three months after their wedding at Pickle Cottage in July.
In an adorable reveal video, Stacey filmed the moment Joe discovered he was going to be a dad again as she presented him with her positive pregnancy test.
The actor looked stunned as he gasped 'You're joking!' before sinking to his knees.
Stacey then posted to her social media followers: "'I can't believe we are having another baby! We are sooo excited. I'm nervous for my noon, but so so excited."
Stacey had previously said that daughter Rose would be her last baby as she and Joe had to 'live within their means.'
Speaking to You magazine in 2021, the TV star said they felt 'grateful' to even get pregnant with their second child.
"We have to live within our means. We want to be the best parents we can.
"And when we were trying to have this baby, it wasn't the process we thought it would be, so we were just so grateful to even get pregnant.'
"I don't want to push it any more. This is enough," she insisted.
As she opened up to 5.4million Instagram fans in a candid Q&A about her pregnancy, Stacey revealed she'd been completely surprised and learned she was pregnant at her July wedding.
The mum said she was 'a lot further along' with her baby than when 'you usually tell people' when she found out the news.
"I must have missed periods at the beginning, but I was breastfeeding Rose and when I stopped breastfeeding my periods were a bit all over the place anyway," she explained. "So it didn’t even cross my mind because I just thought they’ll eventually go back to normal, but they never did."
She went on: "We really wanted it to ourselves for the beginning bit, but we missed the beginning bit if that makes sense. We didn’t have to keep it a secret for 8 months because we didn’t know for 8 months.
"My periods were irregular from breastfeeding, we were planning a wedding then getting married, and then just crazy life and it honestly didn’t register."
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