It’s another baby boy for Peta Murgatroyd and Maksim Chmerkovskiy! The “Dancing With the Stars” pros announced the arrival of their third child via Instagram on Friday with an adorable selfie snapped from the hospital. The sweet pic showed a proud Chmerkovskiy, 44, grinning at the camera while Murgatroyd, 37, cradled their newborn and lovingly looked down at him. “He is officially evicted from his mom and he is sooooo cute!!!!” they captioned the joint post.
“Birth details later but for now we wanted to let you all know that mom and baby are doing perfect, and delivery took around 47 seconds total! Exactly one push!” Concluding the announcement post, the professional dancers thanked their fans for their supportive messages, writing, “Means a lot and very much appreciated.” Chmerkovskiy and Murgatroyd also told fans that they made the public announcement just hours after the blonde beauty had gone into labor. They shared a photo of themselves kissing in the hospital room moments before their little one arrived.
“Here we go again...
.again!” they wrote alongside the sweet snapshot. “Wish us luck 🤞🏼.
” Murgatroyd revealed her pregnancy news in February, only seven months after giving birth to son Rio . The couple conceived while she was four months postpartum, Murgatroyd told her Instagram followers of the “unexpected” addition. “ We Are Having A Baby 🎉🙈🙏🏻,” she captioned her announcement at the time.
“Yes we know...
we just had a baby...
haha! ...
But we are sooooo happy and so ready to be a family of 5 soon!” Murgatroyd concluded, “After everything we’ve been through with miscarriages and IVF we’re beyond blessed and know we are uber lucky for this miracle to happen to us. We’re just so happy that we can finally tell you guys the good news.” The Australian native suffered multiple miscarriages and experienced a failed embryo transfer before welcoming rainbow baby Rio, now 1, in June 2023.
The little one joined big brother Shai, now 7, who was born in January 2017 . Murgatroyd and Chmerkovskiy used blue confetti poppers to reveal in March that baby No. 3 would also be a boy.
The then-expectant star called herself a “a real-life wolf pack Mumma” at the time. “Maks and I are beyond happy to have another buddy for Shai and Rio,” Murgatroyd wrote via Instagram . “We want them to be the best of friends and thinking about family dinners already makes us laugh!” She and Chmerkovskiy met on Broadway in 2009, but they didn’t begin dating until three years later once they reunited as “DWTS” pros.
In December 2015, the choreographer got down on one knee and proposed to his partner on an episode of the ABC show. The dancers tied the knot in July 2017 in New York..
