Tara Lipinski is now a proud mom!
The Olympic gold medal figure skater and her husband Todd Kapostasy have welcomed their first child together.
Their daughter, Georgie Winter, arrived via surrogate after five years of infertility struggles.
“I dreamt about this for so long,” Lipinski, 41, told People.
“A crying baby, sleepless nights. Even when I’m like, ‘Okay, take an hour nap,’ I’m almost too excited. I’m like, ‘She’s there. Just watch her a little longer.”
Earlier this year Lipinski revealed she and her husband had been trying to conceive for five years.
“My husband and I have seemingly hit every roadblock imaginable from the moment we began this process in 2018 and since then I have been under anesthesia 24 times, have had 4 miscarriages, 4 D&C’s, 6 failed IVF transfers, 8 retrievals and a diagnosis of endometriosis that led me to 2 major surgeries,” she shared on Instagram.
“It has been an excruciatingly painful journey that has been filled with loss & dealing with the grief that comes along with that. We are lucky to have the ability to make our embryos but pregnancy is another story.”
Two months later the couple announced they were expecting their first child via a “heaven sent surrogate.”
Lipinski was in the delivery room for Georgie’s birth.
“My doctor had me playing my favorite song and I’m bawling because I think there was just so much relief of, ‘Is this five-year journey over?'” she told Today. “And then immediately, the baby is out, screaming, and on my chest and we’re doing skin-to-skin and it was one of those moments like, ‘How did my life just change so quickly and is this a dream? Because it feels like it.'”
After years of unsuccessful attempts to get pregnant, Lipinski said she and her husband are nothing but grateful.
“I feel so much gratitude — it just didn’t happen for so long — and we’re just very, very lucky that this happened for us.”
Congratulations to Tara and Todd!
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