Mira Sorvino and Husband Welcome Baby Son After 'Life-Threatening' Pregnancy

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Mira Sorvino and husband Chris Backus welcomed their third child into their family on June 22, but it wasn't easy. Sorvino suffered from complications due to placenta previa, which saw her hospitalized and put on strict bed rest for nine weeks leading up to the delivery.

Talkins to People magazine, Sorvino details the trials and tribulations she underwent:
I developed a blood clot due to all the inactivity and had to be anti-coagulated for months to prevent a pulmonary embolism. 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.

The baby was very big and he came a couple of weeks early so it took longer than we thought. 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. Despite all the troubles, Sorvino says that in the end it was all worth it:
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! Sorvino gave birth to the boy, Holden Paul Terry Backus, on June 22nd.

Congrats to the happy family!

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