Praise be: Yvonne Strahovski and her husband, Tim Lodenhave welcomed their third child.
“Our third little (big!) boy thundered into the world at lightning speed, thank goodness Tim was there to catch our boy when our amazing team came into our house to help ♥️,” Strahovski, 41, wrote via Instagram on Saturday, December 30. “Such a surreal, intense, wonderful experience that I will never forget. Welcome my little boy, we have been waiting for you and love you sooooo much.”
The Handmaid’s Tale star also uploaded the first photo of the newborn. In the snap, Loden, 41, was cradling their son as Strahovski sat next to them and kissed the child’s head.
Strahovski announced her pregnancy in June. “Well, here we go. Baby bump number 3 🙈✨💥 Pizza really wanted to be in the picture,” she wrote via Instagram, referring to her dog. “So did the little feet that hid behind me.”
Strahovski and Loden, who married in 2017, also share two older sons. Their firstborn, William, arrived in October 2018.
“My heart has already melted into a billion pieces a thousand times,” the actress beamed via Instagram at the time. “We are blessed with the greatest joy of our lives, our baby boy. Welcome to the world Peanut, your parents love you so much and you are already my little dreamboat. My heart has been stolen!”
Three years later, Strahovski and Loden welcomed their second son in December 2021, whose name has not been shared publicly.
by Strahovsky The Handmaid’s Tale character, Serena Joy, has since followed suit. In season 4, it was revealed that Serena Joy was pregnant by her and husband Fred Waterford (Joseph Fiennes) rainbow baby after fertility problems. Serena Joy finally gave birth to son Noah in season 5, shortly after Fred was murdered by disgruntled former handmaids. (A sixth and final season of The Handmaid’s Tale has already been extended, but a premiere date has not yet been announced.)
“[Motherhood] changes you in so many ways. It can be extremely confrontational. You wonder if you are ready to go there. It makes you wonder who I am as a person,” Strahovski said Golden derby in May 2021 about how her portrayal of Serena Joy changed since she got older. “It’s almost like you’re confronting your identity and who you’re going to become. You not only give birth to a child, you also give birth to yourself as a mother.”
She added at the time: “For Serena, her priority is – because she feels all these things, I think it’s a very confrontational space for her to be in and ask herself, ‘What is my absolute priority?’ , and in her case it is no longer Fred at all. I think there is clearly an incredibly deep wound from Fred turning his back on her in various ways [and] Knowing that she has the upper hand in this situation, I think she’s leaning into that this season.