'When he came out he didn't start breathing': Katherine Heigl reveals son had difficult birth as she shares never-seen-before nude pregnancy photo
Katherine Heigl welcomed son Joshua on December 20, 2016.
And on Wednesday the Grey's Anatomy vet took to Instagram to wish the little guy a happy first birthday while sharing several never-seen-before photos from the hospital as well as a new image of the boy today.
In her caption, the blonde 27 Dresses actress revealed he didn't have the easiest birth as he was not breathing when he was delivered by C-section.
Rare: Katherine Heigl shared a photo from when she was pregnant with baby Josh on her Instagram account on Tuesday
In the first image she is naked while heavily pregnant as she looks out a window onto the snowy landscape outside their Utah home.
Other images are of her son in the hospital with tubes and her husband can also be seen.
And in the last photo little Joshua is a healthy smiling boy in his mother's arms.
The former Roswell star began her note: 'At 9am one year ago today I had @joshbkelley take this photo of me so I could remember how incredibly pregnant I was right before we left for the hospital and my 12pm scheduled cesarean.
Honest: The Grey's Anatomy vet said she was nervous about the delivery and here she is seen just before the C-section. She said: 'Trying to look cool, calm and collected!'
'Joshua Jr had been in the breech position for over a month and had still not moved an inch a week before his due date so I made the decision to have a cesarean and was incredibly nervous and a little scared this time last year.'
'I had never been hospitalized or had ever had any kind of surgery and had no idea what to expect. The second photo is right before I went in for surgery. Trying to look cool, calm and collected! They numbed me up, gave me some morphine and opened me up.
'My doctor struggled to get him out because he was really wedged in there and not quite ready to leave the womb.
Hard start: 'My doctor struggled to get him out because he was really wedged in there and not quite ready to leave the womb,' she revealed
'When she finally pulled him out at exactly 12:33pm he didn’t start breathing and they worked quickly to get oxygen in him and start his tiny lungs. @joshbkelley was standing with them when he finally took his first breath. That day, as I slowly came out of the morphine haze and clutched my tiny man to me.
'I thanked the heavens for his breath, his life and for making me a mother three times over. As evening settled in Josh and I got cozy in my hospital room, found one of my all time favorites #SweetHomeAlabama on the tv and just relished in our perfect newborn son.
'He was so tiny and new, so fragile and tender. As I lay him down to sleep that first night in his very appropriate “welcome to the world” sleep sack I thought the moment would last forever.
Struggle: 'When she finally pulled him out at exactly 12:33pm he didn’t start breathing and they worked quickly to get oxygen in him and start his tiny lungs. @joshbkelley was standing with them when he finally took his first breath
The story: The Knocked Up star wrote a lot about the birth of Joshua in one of her most honest and revealing posts ever
'Yet here we are, a whole year later and it’s only the photos that remind me my brute of a boy was ever so new and small! Now he’s 26 ponds of rolling, tumbling, grasping, giggling, shouting, curious, jolly energy!
'He is everything and more than I could have hoped for and he has brought our family even more joy, love, laughter, abundance, bliss and yes, exhaustion and exasperation too! It’s been a hell of a year and I could not be more grateful for it or him! Happy Birthday to my little man! Maybe I can make this next year go a little slower!'
She already has two adopted daughters Naleigh, aged eight, and Adalaide, aged four, with husband Josh Kelley, a singer.
The little guy: 'He is everything and more than I could have hoped for and he has brought our family even more joy, love, laughter, abundance, bliss and yes, exhaustion and exasperation too!' she said
Still in the hospital: This is her third child, but her first bio baby; she has already two adopted daughters
New mom look: In January she told People: 'I’ve never been determined to experience pregnancy. But I’m so grateful that I did,' she said
She liked being pregnant: 'I thought, "Oh, pregnancy is going to wreck me, I am going to be one of those women who’s just probably sick the whole time and feels terrible and exhausted." [But] I just had a pretty easy experience,' she said earlier this year
In January she told People: 'I’ve never been determined to experience pregnancy. But I’m so grateful that I did. I think that if it hadn’t been a surprise, I’m not sure I would have done it. It was an incredible experience, it was kind of magical.”
'I think it all threw me for a loop. For some reason I just felt like it was going to be so hard for me … I have all these stomach issues all the time and my back always hurts.
'I thought, "Oh, pregnancy is going to wreck me, I am going to be one of those women who’s just probably sick the whole time and feels terrible and exhausted." [But] I just had a pretty easy experience.'
The real deal about being a new mom: She also shared that there have been some highs and lows. 'One minute you’re weirdly obsessed with this baby, like "Don’t take him out of my sight," and the next you’re kind of blue, you’re a little sad and a little freaked out,' she said
She also shared that there have been some highs and lows.
'One minute you’re weirdly obsessed with this baby, like "Don’t take him out of my sight," and the next you’re kind of blue, you’re a little sad and a little freaked out,' she said.
'I actually prefer the adoption way because I wasn’t subject to hormones.'
'The moment you hold your child, you’re wholly in love. And you’ll do anything to protect them and shelter them.'
The baby now: Here the beauty us seen holding up her little guy as she stood in front of her fireplace at home in Utah
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