“It was a dramatic birth,” Canning, 46, tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue, out Friday. “He wasn’t crying when he came out and I kept saying, ‘Is he okay? Is he breathing?’ Everything was so chaotic.”
As Canning waited to hear sonGeorge “Tripp” Anthony‘s first cry — a moment she recalls as “the greatest feeling” — a team of doctors and nurses worked to stop her excessive blood loss.
“They had to get the placenta out and there was a lot of bleeding,” she says of her adherent placenta, which doctors said was a result of Canning having multiple children.
“My blood count went way down so they had to do some quick thinking after the birth,” she adds. “But they did warn me ahead of time. They said, ‘You might hemorrhage,there could be complications.’ ”
“We were like, ‘We’ll probably just get all girls.’ If it was a girl, it would be a girl, that was fine,” says Canning. “When the report came back and the boy was a higher-quality embryo, we were like, ‘It’s meant to be.’ ”
Andrea Canning with her husband and six children.
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“They have been fighting like crazy over who gets to hold him,” Canning tells PEOPLE. “They are all little mommies. Every chance they get, they want to be around him.”
But Canning’s proudest moments as a mom come in the quieter times as she sits back and watches her family of eight all together.
“They’re my greatest accomplishment in this world,” she saysof the couple’s six children. “We look at them every day and say how lucky we are.”
For more from Andrea Canning, pick up the latest issue ofPEOPLE, on newsstands Friday.
source: people.com
