Coleen Garcia welcomes second baby with Billy Crawford
Coleen Garcia and Billy Crawford's family just got bigger as they have now welcomed their second child.
In an Instagram post on Sept. 1, Garcia shared pictures of her beautiful baby boy, Austin, after welcoming him into the world at St. Luke's Medical Center, highlighting that it was an "experience of a lifetime."
Although she was in active labor, she recalled that her contractions were not painful or uncomfortable when she arrived at the hospital with her family.
"After some time, they did start to get painful. I was then brought to the delivery room right away. When we got to the room, I stood up from the wheelchair, took a couple of steps toward the bed, then suddenly felt a tiny urge to push while I was still standing," the actress wrote.
"I did once, just a little, for relief—until I felt his head coming out. 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!" she continued.
She said that Austin was born "in just two quick, silent, and surprisingly painless pushes." He was also born en caul, which means that he was born inside the amniotic sac that had not ruptured.
Garcia shared that she originally planned for a water birth, but that "it all happened so fast."
"I was supposed to get an internal examination, dim the lights, play some music, soak in the tub. Instead, I gave birth like two minutes after entering the delivery room," she said.
"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,'" she added. "I was laughing about it, while my mom was stunned and holding the baby in disbelief."
The Isang Gabi star recalled how her first birth to her son Amari caught her off guard and left her with some trauma because she didn’t know what to expect, but that this birth was the complete 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," she said.
"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," she highlighted.
In an earlier post, Garcia appeared to poke fun at her failed plan of a water birth as she shared a gorgeous maternity shoot with the caption: "This is what the water birth was supposed to look like, but baby had other plans."
Garcia and Crawford tied the knot in an intimate wedding on Balesin Island in 2018. They welcomed Amari via home birth two years later.