Looks like baby no. 2 took her parents for a pretty wild ride!
Last Friday (June 4), Patrick J. Adams and Troian Bellisario shared some happy news: They recently welcomed a new addition to their family, their second child Elliot Rowena Adams.
The couple are already parents to two-year-old daughter Aurora, and the announcement came as a surprise to fans who didn’t even know that Troian was pregnant. But, apparently, there are a lot more surprising details about the arrival of baby no. 2 – particularly how she arrived into her parents’ lives.
This going to sound like something from the movies, but in a recent interview on Katie Lowe’s podcast, Katie’s Crib, Troian and Patrick revealed that they didn’t make it inside the hospital. Troian actually gave birth In! Their! Car!
Wild, right?
But it doesn’t stop there. Turns out, Patrick also played a crucial role in the moment – he delivered their baby himself!
When Troian started having contractions, they were “still not in panic mode.” Apparently, Troian’s labor with Aurora lasted 26 hours, so they thought they still had some time. But, on their way to the hospital…
“I’m starting to have to push my seatbelt away from me… I’m in a lot of pain, but I’m also like, ‘I can’t be in this position anymore,'” she recalled.
They did make it to the hospital parking lot though.
“As soon as I hit the button and get the ticket, she’s screaming,” Patrick explained. “I whip around, and by the time I turn my head around, Troian is fully on her hands and knees and we’ve gone nuclear.”
Looking back, the details are a little fuzzy – especially for Troian – but she was able to get on all fours in the backseat. Meanwhile, Patrick managed to park in front of the Emergency Room and tried to get a guard to call for help inside.
“I get up to the guy and I say, ‘It’s all happening, in the car. You need to get the wheelchair down here, you need to get the people, all the people! all the professionals! It’s happening!'” he recounts, adding that when he opened the car door, “As soon as I open it, Troian is doing one of her incredible howls.”
Troian was screaming for him to help her pull down her pants. And, as Patrick puts it, “So she is still on all fours, butt facing the windshield. Her butt’s at my head level, so I just go and pull down her pants and [the baby’s] head is right there.”
“She was crowning,” Troian added.
And so Patrick delivered the baby himself – which he says took “about three minutes.”
“There was no room for panic. You just need to deal with this situation,” he said.
When their daughter was out, Troian recalled, “I just look over my shoulder, because I’m still on all fours. And I see Patrick holding her upside down, and she’s wailing, so I was like, ‘She’s alive, she’s OK. She’s breathing.”
Baby Elliot sure made an entrance!
Congrats to Troian and Patrick on the birth of their daughter.
