Burton, Morgan welcome ‘miracle baby’

Actress Hilarie Burton has shared her excitement at becoming a mother again and also sent out a supportive message to others struggling with fertility. Burton and her husband Jeffrey Dean Morgan, an actor, welcomed their daughter, George Virginia, on February 16. But the One Tree Hill star took to her announcement on Instagram mindfully.

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“It took a long time for Jeffrey and I to have this baby. The first time I got pregnant, it took a year and a half. I surprised him on Christmas with baby Seahawk booties. We cried. We celebrated. We picked out names. And we lost that baby,” said Burton, who is also a mother to son Augustus. 

“I’d weep out of jealousy for how easy it was for them. Didn’t they know something could go wrong? Didn’t they know that there were other women out there struggling? It pained me to see the corporate sponsored baby showers and magazine covers capitalizing on this human miracle that wasn’t happening for us.” During this pregnancy, she said, she was cautious. 

“I didn’t want to celebrate for fear of jinxing it. I checked her heartbeat every day, up until the day she was born. And now that she is here, I just stare at her in wonder all day. I see her in her daddy’s arms and I don’t take any of it for granted. She screams bloody murder and I smile because she is so wildly alive.”  –IANS