Snuggled up on the sofa, Laura Anderson cradles her beautiful baby girl. But she explains that eight-week-old Bonnie really should be napping right now!
After meeting ex-Hollyoaks and The Bill star Gary Lucy, 41, in the summer of 2022 on the set of Celebs Go Dating, the two fell head over heels for each other and started trying for a baby almost immediately. “No one knows what the future holds, but it’s really important that Bonnie has a mother and a father who love her and who are getting along. She needs both of us in her life, so that is always going to be my priority.”“I would say me and Gary are friends,” she says. “We’re co-parenting as best we can right now and I think it’ll fall into place and make sense as she gets older. With both of our jobs, there can’t be too much routine at the moment anyway.
“We’ve not fully worked it out yet and I imagine it’ll be easier to schedule things when Bonnie’s a bit older. But for now, if I come down to London for work, I always tell him so he can see her. Just a few months ago, when relations were still strained, Gary had said he wasn’t sure whether he would attend the birth, although Laura made it clear that he was welcome.
“And even though the birth itself was quite traumatic, in a weird way I think it went perfectly because he was there.” After four sweeps and then a painful balloon induction failed to kick-start labour, Laura’s contractions finally began, rather rapidly, following a hormone induction. She went from 4cm to 9cm dilated in the space of 40 minutes and when she asked for an epidural, doctors initially told her she was too far on to have it.
“I automatically went into mother mode and felt very protective straight away. I spoke to her saying, ‘Hi angel, it’s OK, Mummy’s here.’ She held my hand and she was staring at me. I told Gary to speak to her too.” “It looked like I was going to have to go to theatre for surgery and I was messaging Gary who’d gone back to my place to sleep. He was freaking out, but I told him to bring the colostrum I’d been harvesting so Bonnie could be fed while I was under the general anaesthetic.”
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