“It was wild,” Jade tells PEOPLE about her son’s birth which did not go at all to plan.
“It’s surreal. I’m still having trouble processing it,” the formerBachelorstar said Wednesday.
Jade, who has been married to her formerBachelor in Paradisecostar Tanner for three years, (their daughter Emmy is almost two) was still around two weeks away from her due date when her water broke.
“Her water actually broke at 9:16pm, as we were actually watchingThe Bachelorette,” Tanner, 32, tells PEOPLE.
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Tanner adding: “We weren’t shocked that he came early, but we were shocked that he came so fast.”
“I thought I was going to get in the bath and then we’d go,” says Jade, also 32. “We were waiting for Tanner’s mom because she was coming to watch Emerson. But then I got out of the tub and my contractions were so intense I couldn’t even keep on top of them.
“I started pacing in the bathroom and found myself in the closet trying to think about getting clothes on. Then I yelled for Tanner and I was like, ‘Tanner it’s happening now!’ He came in and tried to get me dressed. He put me in a T-shirt and his gym shorts. I was just in a pain and labor fog.”
Couresy Jade Tolbert
Tanner rushed to her side in the hopes of getting her to the hospital. “My whole mindset was I’ll carry her if I need to but we need to get to the car so we can drive,” the now-father-of-two says.
“And Jade is like, ‘No Tanner, I can’t. I can feel the head.’ He had already dropped down to the birth canal. Once she convinced me it was happening, I was like, ‘Oh s—.’”
Then, “Tanner’s mom came in the room,” says Jade. “I was screaming and I was terrified. Then I told Tanner to call 911.”
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Now, Jade says she’s focused on recovering- and enjoying precious time with the newest addition, who doesn’t have a name — yet, but so far is looking like Dad.
And ultimately, “I’m really grateful,” says Jade. “I mentally kind of lost it at one point. But luckily, I had a really great team behind me. They were my strength in the moment. And it just feels so right to have our son here. It feels like he’s been a part of our family forever.”
Tanner previously admitted that regardless of whether the spouses ended up having a boy or second girl, hehoped they’d welcome a son someday. “I want to at least have one [boy],” he told PEOPLE. “We joke and I tell her that she’s going to have to keep on trying until we get that boy.”
source: people.com
