IntroducingIsaac Menelik Giovanni Ervin!
“My sister Kia and I would have discussions about, ‘Oh, one day, when we have kids … ‘ ” Ervin, 31, explained of having the name Isaac picked out since he was in middle school. “I brainstormed my own name for my future son, and I knew it was gonna be Isaac.”
The model, 32, said that she and her husband were inspired to choose Menelik — which means “son of the wise” — after taking atrip to Ethiopia last Christmasand learning that the country’s first emperor was named Menelik I.
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Ashley Graham and son Isaac.
Graham her filmmaker husband and also talked about how life has changed sincewelcoming Isaac into the worldon Jan. 18, via a home birth with no medication for the first-time mom.
“I have to say, now that I gave birth and I did it naturally and I felteverything, I feel like there’s nothing I can’t do,” she said. “There’s nothing that could come my way where I say, ‘Oh, that’s too hard, I can’t handle that.’ I went through laboring for six hours naturally.”
Graham explained that she chose to deliver her sonat home in a birthing poolknowing that her “anxiety would’ve been through the roof” at a hospital because she doesn’t like hospitals, joking that “there’s a really big granola girl” inside of her.
“To go straight from the pool to the bed with our son and just hold him, what a bond,” Ervin said.
Graham and Ervin sharedthe news of their son’s birthon their Instagrams last month.
“At 6:00pm on Saturday our lives changed for the better,” she wrote, adding red and blue heart emojis. “Thank you all for your love and support during this incredible time.”
“Meeting our son has made our hearts incredibly full and we can’t wait to introduce him to you on@prettybigdealpodtomorrow … ,” she wrote.
source: people.com
