Shay Mitchell just gave birth to a baby girl and she wants us all to watch her labour

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22nd Oct 2019

Huge congratulations are in order for actress Shay Mitchell, who just gave birth to her first child with her boyfriend of almost three years, Matte Babel.

Taking to Instagram to break the exciting news, Mitchell posted a photo of her own hand holding the tiny hand of her newborn, accompanying our first look at her baby with the sweet caption “Never letting go…”

Of course, it wasn’t long before the congratulations came rolling into her comments section, with her Pretty Little Liars co-stars Troian Bellisario and Sasha Pieterse sending their well wishes to the new mother, with Bellisario—who too welcomed her first child a year ago—calling her and her baby the “most beautiful babe and mother”, and Pieterse exclaiming “So happy for you!! Congratulations mama”.

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Fellow actresses Claire Holt, Vanessa Hudgens and Nikki Reed also reached out to the You actress to communicate their own love-filled congratulations.

Of course, being the social media mogul that she is, in addition to being an actress, her Instagram reveal proved only the beginning of her birth tale. Having launched her YouTube Originals series titled Almost Ready alongside her Instagram announcement declaring that she was pregnant with her first child, Mitchell confessed that after hiding her pregnancy for many months, she was ready to share her experience.

“When you’re in the public eye there are some things you want to keep a secret until you feel ready,” she says in the video. “This for me has been the hardest. It’s gonna be really fun and awesome when I’m not trying to hide it anymore.” And not hide she absolutely did.

In the latest instalment of her pregnancy-focused web series, called My Labour and Delivery, the 32-year-old’s first words in the video were “oh my god, my water’s breaking”, filming herself entering the very early stages of her labour looking as perplexed as ever.

From there, we follow a pre-birth Mitchell in real-time through her long-winded labour journey, from arrival at the hospital, to mild complications, to the eventual birth a total of 33 hours later.

With the camera off Mitchell herself, she shared the audio from the birth moment itself, including her daughter’s very first cries. The bonafide YouTuber that she is, the actress switched the camera back on not long after the birth, sharing with us all her first days as a parent, toasting the birth with Babel.

With no word on what her newborn daughter’s name is, with her recent social media activity considered, we’re betting that not only is her name set to be revealed very soon, but it’s also equally likely we’ll get another glimpse at her baby very soon.