Congratulations are in order for Ashley Tisdale and her husband, Christopher French! On Saturday, September 7, they welcomed their second daughter, Emerson Clover. Emerson joins big sister Jupiter Iris, who is three years old. Ashley announced the news on Saturday via an Instagram post that mirrored the announcement for her older daughter’s arrival. It was a black and white picture of Ashley, Christopher, and Iris holding Emerson’s hand. Awww!
On Saturday, Sept. 7, the High School Musical alum, 39, shared the happy news on Instagram that she has welcomed her second baby — a girl — with husband Christopher French. Sharing a close-up black-and-white photo of herself, French and their 3-year-old daughter, Jupiter, holding the newborn’s hand, Tisdale revealed her daughter’s name and announced that she was born on Friday, Sept. 6.
“Emerson Clover French, all three of us are obsessed with you,” the actress wrote in the post’s caption. “She landed 9.6.24 .”
In March, Tisdale announced that she and French, 42, were expecting their second baby together.
“We can’t wait to meet you ,” she wrote in her Instagram caption at the time, as she shared snaps of the couple and her baby bump. Their daughter Jupiter also appeared in the carousel, while French wrote in the comments, “ Here we goooo! I love you. We can do this lol.”
Tisdale and French have been married since 2014 and they welcomed Jupiter in March 2021. Although she said she couldn’t “wait to meet” the new addition to their family, Tisdale got candid about some of her fears ahead of welcoming another baby in a March TikTok video.
“I suffered with postpartum depression the first time and so that definitely scared me, thinking about, oh having another one, like, just going through that again,” the actress and singer said in part in the video, posted on the same day she announced her pregnancy.
“But my doctor said that it’s interesting that on the second, your hormones just adjust so much faster. It wasn’t so much that I was depressed, I just had a lot of anxiety,” she added.
As for her daughter, “I’m excited and Jupiter’s excited,” Tisdale said in the video. “She keeps telling everybody the big news, that she’s going to be a big sister.”
Just last month, Tisdale joked that she couldn’t “wait to get that baby out” in a post shared on her Instagram Stories about the past few weeks of her pregnancy with Emerson, explaining that she’d “been sick for three weeks” and felt “exhausted.”
“I’m exhausted. I’m ready to have this baby but not ready,” the actress said. “I still need to wallpaper the room, get everything organized, so don’t come yet! BUT I’ve been sick for three weeks with adenovirus that turned into a sinus infection. My whole body hurts and I literally can’t wait to get that baby out. I think they make the last month this hard so your willing to throw yourself into something that would normally be so scary but you do it anyway.”
Congrats again to the Tisdale/French family. Ashley was so miserable during the last few months of her pregnancy. I hope it was an easy delivery with Emerson and that she’s feeling much better now! Those last few weeks and months can be so difficult. Hopefully, Ashley doesn’t have any issues with postpartum depression this time around. What her doctor said about having less of a chance of getting PPD after your second baby because your hormones adjust quicker is really interesting, actually. I had no idea that was a thing. I adjusted a lot quicker mentally and emotionally after my younger son was born, but I’ve always just chalked that up to feeling good about actually knowing what I was doing the second time around.
I really like the name Emerson, too. Jupiter and Emerson, I dig it. As for Clover as the middle name, my former mentor (who I’m still friendly with via social media) has a daughter with the middle name Clover, and was given that middle name because it had a special meaning behind it. I wonder if there is any special meaning behind Emerson Clover’s name. We chose our boys’ names very carefully, so I always love hearing about that kind of stuff.
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