Congratulations to Divine Lee for the safe delivery of their third child, a baby girl!
On Instagram, dad Blake Go proudly shared a photo of his wife seeing their newborn for the first time in the delivery room. The mom of three gave birth today, October 10, 2021, via Cesarean section.
“Thank you, Lord. 10-10,” was his short and sweet caption.
In her Instagram stories, Divine had been sharing videos of her arriving in the hospital – she had to check in a little earlier as she needed to prep for a possible blood transfusion and see if her blood donors will be approved. But she assured her followers that she will still give birth on 10-10, as planned.
In her previous vlogs, Divine revealed that her third pregnancy was high-risk and she had to be placed on bed rest due to placenta previa, a pregnancy complication that occurs when “a baby's placenta partially or totally covers the mother's cervix.”
Doctors also informed her that she might have placenta accreta. According to Divine, it is “very dangerous” condition. “It means that yung placenta mo, dumikit. Kasi diba kapag nanganak ka, lalabas yung baby tapos lalabas yung placenta. So hindi makakalabas yung placenta [with placenta accreta].”
On a lighter note, Divine mentioned that she was aiming to give birth at 10.10. This was the original date that she wanted to give birth to her second child, Blanca, but Divine ended up giving birth 10 days earlier, by October 1.
By this date, she would have been roughly 38 weeks into her pregnancy. Divine is already a mom of two kids, Baz and Blanca.
In a recent vlog, Divine shared the outcome of her gender reveal party, where her friends and family were surprised that they were having a baby girl. All along, the couple thought it was a boy, and had even prepared her essentials while choosing the color blue.
Divine had her eggs frozen when she was 24 years old, saying that it was one of the best decisions she ever made in her life and for her family. For her latest pregnancy, she went through a test for her IVF, explaining, “That is guaranteed, 90 plus percent, or something with testing the genes. When it comes to gender, mataas pa rin.”
A PGS test is done to screen embryos for any chromosomal abnormalities before transferring the embryo into your uterus. Divine adds, “Siyempre tayo, umaasa tayo na 'yun talaga 'yung gender. From the PGS testing of the embryo... 'yung embryos na ilalagay sa'kin, tinest siya at sinabing dalawang lalaki 'yun.”
Apart from the PGS test, Divine also went through a blood test to check how her pregnancy was progressing. It was through that test that they found out she was having a girl. “Nagkagulo 'yung mundo namin when we found out,” the mom recalls.
Divine and Blake have no qualms about the gender of their baby, but they were of course surprised since they had been preparing for the arrival of another boy.
“No matter how you plan things, God has plans for you. After all the hullabaloo... it's just really the world telling you, you're part of that chances na hindi na tugma, and you're having a girl.”
Congratulations to the growing family!