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Jordana Abraham is officially a mom!
The founder of digital media company Betches, who is currently pregnant, has welcomed her first baby via surrogate with husband Michael Marinelli. Abraham shared the news on her Instagram, calling her newborn daughter her “miracle baby.”
“Dreams do come true! Introducing our daughter and first miracle baby,” Abraham wrote. “Charlie Jane was delivered via our incredible surrogate on 1-16-26.”
“She is named after Mike’s Uncle Charlie and my Dad, John. We are obsessed and Charlie is soaking up her first and last weeks as an only child.”
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Back in October, Abraham shared that she is pregnant at the same time as her surrogate — and that they were both expecting girls. She announced they were both due this winter.
“After nearly 4 years, 2 miscarriages, an ectopic, and 3 chemical pregnancies it has been a long road but we are finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel!” wrote Abraham in the caption. “Feeling so grateful to everyone that helped us get to this point.”
Then, Abraham opened up about her journey on an Oct. 23 episode of her podcast Baby Steps. She shared about the emotional toll her pregnancy took on her, saying that she felt like she’d done everything.
“Obviously, it’s trying to go to the appointments and take the shots and do that stuff, but to me, the hardest was to not do anything,” shared Abraham. “The worst thing was I don’t know what the issue is, because I tried everything. I’d taken all the supplements. I’d done all the pills.”
After several discouraging results, she said she decided to pursue surrogacy. Shortly after learning her surrogate had gotten pregnant, Abraham tested positive for pregnancy as well.
“It was my seventh positive test,” she explained, adding that she believed she would have another miscarriage. Her husband, said Abraham, also believed that Abraham’s positive pregnancy test “didn’t mean much.”
However, despite what she initially thought, Abraham and her surrogate were set to give birth less than two weeks apart this winter.
“It still feels like I can’t trust it until they’re in my arms,” she said. “But it is crazy to have two babies due 12 days apart.”
