Photo: Courtesy Barbara Higgins
“We’ve beat the odds,” Banzhoff, 65, told the outlet. “I’m so proud of her, she’s been a trooper through the whole thing.”
The couple’s new bundle of joy comes five years after they reportedly lost their 13-year-old daughter Molly to an undiagnosed brain tumor.
After Molly’s death, Higgins said she couldn’t stop thinking about having another child to join theirsurviving daughterGracie.
Courtesy Barbara Higgins
“I started having these dreams that I wanted to have a child, and I thought, ‘OK, Barb, that’s a little crazy,” she told NBC Boston.
After finding an IVF clinic in Boston that would treat someone Higgins’ age, the couple reportedly decided to move forward with the pregnancy.
Higgins also credited her active lifestyle for a smooth third pregnancy, sharing that she had been weightlifting up until the day she went into labor.
“I do a lot of weight training and all of that crazy Crossfit stuff that you hear about,” she told NBC Boston.
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“It’s just us and Jack and our day-to-day life. So far so good,” she toldTODAY. “Who knows how I’ll be in 10 years, but who knows how you’ll be in 10 years? That isn’t something that anyone can predict, and why should Jack not get to be alive just because I’m old?”
source: people.com
