Singer Sophie B. Hawkins, 50, gives birth to daughter after using 20-year-old frozen embryo

By Zoe Nauman For Dailymail.com

Published: 13:01 EST, 10 July 2015 | Updated: 15:50 EST, 10 July 2015

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Sophie B. Hawkins has given birth to a baby girl at the age of 50.

The singer, who used an embryo she had frozen in 1995 to have her second child, delivered her daughter on July 7.

Called Esther Ballantine Hawkins, the singer told US Weekly, she was 'ecstatic' to have a sibling for her older son Dashiell.

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It's a girl! Singer Sophie B. Hawkins has given birth to a baby daughter, at the age of 50

She told the publication: 'Dashiell and I are ecstatic to finally be with our beautiful girl. Our family is now complete!'

Sophie had her first child in 2008, and spoke to a fertility doctor about the possibility of having another baby later in life with an embryo she had had frozen when she was 31.

In an interview with Today in June, she revealed her reasons for going through with the pregnancy later in life: 'My son has an old mother why can't I give him somebody young to be his family for the rest of his life, who is around.'

Family: The 'Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover' songstress already has a son Dashiell, who was born in 2008 - she is pictured here with Sheinelle Jones from Today

Her doctor told her she was relatively healthy and Sophie said: 'She says I am the healthiest pregnant woman. I could have been 30 and had a lot more problems.'

Sophie says she used a sperm donor in order to have both her children, and she agonised over the decision for a year and a half of whether to give her son a sibling.

She told unconnfertility.com: 'I agonized over the decision for a year and a half, not because of my age, but because I am so happy, focused and productive.

'I went back and forth like a lawyer trying a case, sometimes as the prosecution, sometimes as the defense of the unborn child and sibling, and through it all one question emerged. “Which will I regret, having another child or not having another child?”'

The singer, who is best known for her hits 'Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover' and 'As I Lay Me Down' in the 90's went ahead with the pregnancy and nicknamed the 'bump' Bubble Gum after her son came up with the moniker.

In the lead up to the birth she said: 'Dashiell has his own relationship with this child it is me that is a little blocked. And that is just fear and it will end the moment she comes out.'

Help: Sophie, pictured here in 1988 in Switzerland, used an embryo she had frozen 20 years ago to have her baby daughter, who she has called Esther Ballantine

Sophie told People in an interview a few weeks before she had her daughter she wasn't concerned about having another child so late in life.

But she did worry about how it might impact on her relationship with her son.

'Losing the closeness with Dash, our free and adventurous lifestyle, and the risk that he would feel betrayed by my having another child.

'We've come through serious trauma with depth, healing and humor and that has made our bond even stronger.'

The singer says she is currently single but would like to would love to meet a partner: 'I decided to do this as a single woman and it was a great decision. I don;t want to date but I do have dreams about a great love.'

Sophie B Hawkins appears on stage in Los Angeles in 2005