Eric Mabius, the Daniel Meade in Ugly Betty, and wife Ivy opening up about the delivery of their second son, Rylan Jaxson, 5 months old, weighed in at 10 lbs., 3 oz at birth! — the couple battled NYC traffic and a cab that ran out of gas before arriving at the hospital!
For Eric and his wife, Ivy, the arrival of their second son, Rylan, his big brother Maxfield Eliot, 2 ½, unfolded like a scene from Eric’s hit ABC series, Ugly Betty. In the early morning hours of Dec. 7, Eric and an in-labor Ivy rushed to catch an NYC cab — only to have it run out of gas en route to the hospital! “We had to pull over to the side of the highway,” Eric tells Life & Style.
“The driver got out and started waving his hands to hail another cab.” Thankfully, the couple were able to catch one. “I moved all the bags from the first cab to the other and we just kept going,” Eric says. But after the stressful trip and a 90-minute delivery, the story had a perfect ending: the birth of 10 lbs., 3 oz Rylan Jaxson.
In the five months since, Rylan’s put on around nine pounds, according to his proud parents, who recently opened up their Brooklyn home to Life & Style. “When he came out, he was so big, he looked like a toddler,” Eric, 38, says with a laugh. “It was wild.”
And not too easy on Ivy, who did all the pushing. “The epidural didn’t work because the baby was turned the wrong way, so Ivy was actually having back labor,” during which labor pains are felt in the lower back, Eric says. “She was in a lot of pain.”
Once Rylan was out, even the nurses were shocked at his size. “We put the baby on the scale, and one of the nurses went running down the hall to tell everyone to come get a look,” Eric says. “She had never delivered a baby that big!”
For now, Eric and Ivy, who tied the knot in February 2006, say they aren’t sure whether they’ll have a third. “We each come from two-children families,” Eric explains. “We think it’s a good, round number.” And a whole lot of work besides. “Two kids are definitely more work than one,” he says. “But they’re only going to be this age once. I don’t want to miss anything.”
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