The couple recently welcomed their son.
In an Instagram post on Monday, September 1, actress-host Coleen Garcia revealed to her followers that she had given birth to her second child with Billy Crawford last August 17.
She told, their “beautiful baby boy” is named Austin and added that delivering the to the world was an “experience of a lifetime.”
Garcia also noted that they had planned to do water birth anew, but in the hospital. She then narrated the events leading up to the birth of their son.
“We decided to go to the hospital when I was already in active labor, but after getting checked, we thought it was gonna take a lot longer since my water hadn’t broken yet, I was only 3cm dilated, and contractions weren’t painful or uncomfortable despite being so close together for hours,” she wrote.
Coleen continued, “I was still walking around, killing time, feeling totally normal. After some time, they did start to get painful. I was then brought to the delivery room right away.“
Inside the delivery room, she stood up from the wheelchair, and took a couple of steps toward the bed when she suddenly felt a “tiny urge to push” while standing. “I did once, just a little, for relief—until I felt his head coming out,” she said.
The celebrity mother furthered, “I had to stop mid-push and say the baby was coming! My mom quickly got down to check, and true enough, part of his head was already out! On the next push, he slipped out so quickly that she was the one who caught him!“
In just “two quick, silent, and surprisingly painless pushes, he was born EN CAUL(!) straight into [my mom’s] arms,” Coleen recalled.
It all happened so fast, she said, that she was supposed to get an IE, dim the lights, play some music, and soak in the tub. But instead, she had given birth quickly two minutes after entering the delivery room.
The actress-host continued to share the anecdote: “I was still standing there in the same spot, looking down at everything—everyone in the room completely shookt—and all I could say was: “Well.. that happened.” I was laughing about it, while my mom was stunned and holding the baby in disbelief.”
In retrospect, Coleen wrote, “My first birth caught me off guard and left me with some trauma because I didn’t know what to expect. This birth was the opposite. I was prepared with things I packed but never used, techniques I didn’t really have the time to apply, and plans that didn’t unfold the way I imagined.“
Lastly, “Both births were special and beautiful in their own ways, and God carried me through each of those journeys just as He always does. I felt His presence all throughout, and it shielded me from fear and anxiety, reminding me once again that His plan is always greater than mine.”
The post has since received comments from her fans and fellow celebrities, such as Jessy Mendiola, Melai Cantiveros, Iya Arellano, Megan Young, Carla Abellana, Rica Peralejo, and Jewel Mische, among others.
All of whom have expressed their congratulatory messages toward the couple.
The couple first met as co-hosts of noontime variety show ‘It’s Showtime’ in 2012. Two years later, in 2014, in a televised moment, Billy and Coleen officially began dating.
In April 2018, they tied the knot, and became parents to their firstborn child who was born in September 2020.