14 DAY TRIAL // In November last year, former “Saved by the Bell” star Tiffani Thiessen announced that she was expecting her first child. Of course, she and husband Brady Smith were both positively over the moon at the idea of becoming parents – though Tiffani had to go through 30 horrible hours until she got to see her dream of holding her baby in her arms come true, she says for People.
For the first time since giving birth 5 weeks ago, Tiffani is showing off her baby girl, whom she named Harper Renn and who chose to come into this world only after 30 hours of labor. Before the star was taken to the hospital to have the baby, she even considered hypnobirthing as a way to make things easier for her, she says for this week’s issue of the magazine. In the end, judging by how happy mother and daughter seem in the photo running with the interview, all those difficulties probably no longer matter.
“First my water didn’t break; they had to do it for me. Then the baby wasn’t descending, because the cord was wrapped around her neck,” Tiffani says of the nightmare birth. And, when all this was over, after 30 hours, she did not even get to properly savor the moment when she held the baby in her arms for the first time. “Once she was finally out, I didn’t even get to hold her before they whisked her away… You’re staring across the room, like, ‘Hello? Over here!’ The whole thing was very surreal,” the actress explains.
In the end, though, it was all well worth it – and then some. Harper Renn is proving to be the ideal baby, and Tiffani can’t even begin to put into words how much she has for her. “She sleeps anywhere from three to four hours at a time at night, which is not bad. It’s a lot of work. This is a kind of love that you never really knew about. You haven’t known this person for very long, but you love them so much,” says the actress in the same interview, now out on newsstands.
Thiessen married Brady Smith in 2005, but they’d been trying for a baby for some time before she became pregnant, as they said in the statement confirming the happy news, later last year.
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