Mira Sorvino and husband, Christopher Backus, welcome a baby boy on June 22, at 12:10 a.m, named Holden Paul Terry Backus, which is a third child after Mattea, 4, and Johnny, 3.
Have been though such a miracle experience during the pregnancy which is involved life threatening complications to mother and child. Sorvino’s pregnancy complications included placenta previa, which caused her to be hospitalized for weeks and then put on complete bed rest. “I developed a blood clot (DVT) due to all the inactivity and had to be anti-coagulated for months to prevent a pulmonary embolism,” she said. “I spent another two-and-a-half weeks at the hospital, during which time, missing the children and my husband and knowing what the separation was doing to the kids became almost unbearable. Prior to this nine-week hospital stay, I had only ever spent one night away from Johnny and Mattea.”
Labor and delivery also were long. “The baby was very big and he came a couple of weeks early so it took longer than we thought,” she said. “During the day we had some scary difficulties with the epidural as I achieved almost no progress with the labor and then at night the placenta created problems again. Although it was not blocking the baby’s path as it had done for almost the entire pregnancy, it started causing me a substantial loss of blood. Just as we began begging for a C-section, the situation turned around and the end of the birth was very easy.”
“As soon as they placed him in my arms I knew it had all been worth it,” Sorvino, 41, says. “He is my miracle baby. With everything that threatened this pregnancy and both of our lives, he came out of it completely unscathed: perfectly healthy, beautiful and wonderful!”
Mira is fond praising her husband, Chris during this experience, she said he is her rock and that “she could not have done it without him.”
“Chris was a true hero while I was in the hospital, taking care of every aspect of our lives and attending to all of the kids’ needs during a truly difficult time for all of us,” Mira says of her husband.
The rest of the family are so much welcome and overjoyed for the Holden Paul Terry Backus, whose middle names are for both of his grandfathers, she says that her two older children love their new brother, and that they make up songs to sing to him.
Holden is “seems like a very old soul” with a “darling personality”, adds Mira, and surely they all happy.
“We are overjoyed to bring our beautiful healthy son home to his brother and sister. We are blessed to have a home filled with so much love.”
Through the experience that win her the ‘miracle baby boy’ she is planning to write a book about it, it still in the works, “I find that putting pen to paper helps me remember more details about the experience and sort through my feelings and the way it has changed me, I believe, for the better.”
Can not wait to see the book coming. O yeah and congratulation for the Holden.
