Matthew Wright has revealed his wife Amelia suffered pre-exclampsia during the birth of their first child.
The couple welcomed a baby girl, Cassady, on Friday after trying for almost a decade with IVF.
New dad Matthew has described his newborn daughter as “beautiful” and opened up about her birth.
Read more: Matthew Wright and wife Amelia welcome first child after years of IVF
He told talkRADIO: “I think babies are generally really ugly, but mine, mine is beautiful. I’ve said it.
The presenter added: “It’s all very, very strange I have to say. Amelia is doing good – she suffered pre-eclampsia which is why I had to rush from the studio on Friday.”
Matthew said Cassady weighed five-and-a-half pounds, and Amelia is still in hospital with the tot.
The star also revealed the sweet reason behind his little girl’s name.
He said her name is of “Irish descent with the ‘a’, means curly hair” which Amelia has “underneath her straightened hair”.
It comes after Matthew tweeted last week expressing his excitement about meeting his daughter.
Just a couple of hours before she was born, he wrote: “Just received the following: ‘Ok we are having a baby this evening or basically As soon as you get here.
Just received the following:
“Ok we are having a baby this evening or basically As soon as you get here. you will be taken to the labour ward and given blue pyjamas to wear. Xx” @mrsameliawright
THIS IS HAPPENING!!— Matthew Wright (@Matthew_Wright) 25 January 2019
“‘You will be taken to the labour ward and given blue pyjamas to wear. Xx’ @mrsameliawright THIS IS HAPPENING!!”
Their baby girl was born at 6:22pm on Friday 25 January, according to The Sun.
Matthew, 53, and Amelia, 40, later confirmed to Hello’s website that “mother and baby (and father) are doing very well”.
The two have wanted a baby for many years, having gone through several heartbreakingly unsuccessful rounds of IVF treatment.
Read more: Matthew Wright abandoning pregnant wife at Christmas to go fishing
Matthew also told Hello that this seventh attempt would be their last if it didn’t work.
“It was our final roll of the dice,” he admitted.
They confirmed their pregnancy last September.
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