Chrissy Teigen Announces Heartbreaking Loss of Third Child Due to Pregnancy Complications

Tonight, on the eve of National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, Chrissy Teigen took to Instagram to announce that she and John Legend have lost their sweet baby boy.

They’d been in the hospital due to excessive bleeding for a couple of days, receiving multiple blood transfusions trying to save their son, who they’d named Jack.

A hopeful Chrissy posted two days ago, saying, “hello from hospital. about to have my second blood transfusion which truly truly truly sounds more dramatic than it is. It’s an IV, but instead of fluids, the blood of some kind human being out there. Baby and I are completely fine, just missing the little things like walking…cooking…playing with the other buttbutts.”

Unfortunately, things did not turn out as any mother would hope.

Despite all they and the doctors had done to save the baby, little Jack passed in the hospital with mom and dad snuggling their tiny love.

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We are shocked and in the kind of deep pain you only hear about, the kind of pain we’ve never felt before. We were never able to stop the bleeding and give our baby the fluids he needed, despite bags and bags of blood transfusions. It just wasn’t enough. . . We never decide on our babies’ names until the last possible moment after they’re born, just before we leave the hospital. But we, for some reason, had started to call this little guy in my belly Jack. So he will always be Jack to us. Jack worked so hard to be a part of our little family, and he will be, forever. . . To our Jack – I’m so sorry that the first few moments of your life were met with so many complications, that we couldn’t give you the home you needed to survive. We will always love you. . . Thank you to everyone who has been sending us positive energy, thoughts and prayers. We feel all of your love and truly appreciate you. . . We are so grateful for the life we have, for our wonderful babies Luna and Miles, for all the amazing things we’ve been able to experience. But everyday can’t be full of sunshine. On this darkest of days, we will grieve, we will cry our eyes out. But we will hug and love each other harder and get through it.

A post shared by chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) on Sep 30, 2020 at 8:58pm PDT

Heartbroken and suffering from the loss of their newest family member, Chrissy laments on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/chrissyteigen/status/1311523032289091584

Our hearts are with the grieving family and we take hope in their courage and love.

We are so grateful for the life we have, for our wonderful babies Luna and Miles, for all the amazing things we’ve been able to experience. But everyday can’t be full of sunshine. On this darkest of days, we will grieve, we will cry our eyes out. But we will hug and love each other harder and get through it.