Katherine Ryan has given birth to her third child (Picture: ITV)
Katherine Ryan has reflected on adding to her family after welcoming her third child, daughter Fenna Grace Koostra.
The comedian and partner Bobby Koostra announced their latest addition earlier today, just over a year after introducing son Fred.
Taking to Instagram, the 39-year-old shared a series of sweet glimpses of the newborn with fans, revealing that she gave birth in daughter Violet’s bedroom.
Sharing a video of her eldest child, from a previous relationship, she said: ‘[Violet told her] You will not have the baby in my room. Where did we have the baby…?
‘Violet – MVP of the whole thing along with private midwives and Bobby. We did it!’
‘We’ll tell you the whole story on the podcast,’ the mum-of-three continued.
Katherine opened up about the birth on Instagram (Picture: Instagram)
She gave birth in her daughter’s bedroom (Picture: Instagram)
‘We hit a glitch, a big glitch, that delayed things, it was a bit touch and go but we made it, and we got to stay home!’
Sharing a photo as she cuddled up to her newborn, Katherine added: ‘Home sweet homebirth.’
Bobby confirmed that they had expanded their family earlier today, posting the first picture of their baby girl.
‘Fenna Grace Kootstra, Dec 16, at 12:05am,’ he captioned the post. ‘Mum is incredible!
Fenna is Katherine’s second child with Bobby (Picture: Getty)
‘Proving her strength repeatedly through the relatively lengthy delivery at home. We are so blessed.’
Their new arrival comes just after the pair celebrated son Fred’s first birthday.
The Duchess creator made her baby announcement on her podcast, Katherine Ryan: Telling Everybody Everything, in typically hilarious form.
Speaking of how she became pregnant, she told listeners: ’You guys know I’m pregnant, I’ve been pregnant for a while and here’s how I did that.
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‘I got pregnant while breastfeeding the first time I tried and to be honest with you I don’t think it’s going to work because I’m 39 – I would have been 38 when I got pregnant.
‘And I thought ‘we’ve got to get the kids out of the way’. You never know how long you’re gonna have and I love my kids.
‘I just thought, “well let’s go for it”.’
‘I was shocked when it worked on the first try. I didn’t think that was going to happen, because the narrative is “you’re getting older now so [it’s unlikely].”’
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She added to her brood.
