Jeffrey Dean Morgan is in The Rock’s new movie, Rampage, which looks ridiculous but awesome. It’s out this weekend and Jeffrey plays some kind of mad scientist responsible for making the creatures get super big and angry so they can attack a city and wreck havoc. It’s by the director of San Andreas, which I saw and enjoyed I’m not going to lie. I would watch this one in theaters.
If you would have told me back when Jeffrey married Hilarie Burton they would still be together four years later with two kids I wouldn’t believe you, but I think he’s different than his public persona. He seems supportive of Hilarie and like a good dad and husband. Anyway Jeffrey told Howard Stern that he personally delivered both his children with Hilarie. They have son Augustus, 8, and daughter George Virginia, who was born just about a month ago. The first delivery was a surprise to Jeffrey but he was ready for the second one.
During a recent interview with Howard Stern… [Jeffrey Dean Morgan said] that he delivered both of his youngsters.
“I delivered the children,” he told the radio host. “We went to a hospital to do it in case something were to go awry.”
Fortunately, very little went awry—well, except for his son’s initial head shape. “I had no idea. I thought I was just there to lend support, hold a leg and then we had a midwife and as soon as the baby started crowning, they kind just pushed me in there. The first one, Gus, I kind of waited too long to pull him out and he came out and his head was shaped like a cone. He got stuck in that no man’s land a little bit too long.”
However, he learned his lesson by the time George came around. “I was ready and as soon as she crowned, I grabbed her a little by the cheeks and pulled her out,” he described. “Perfect.”
While he’s gotten some practice, it seems Morgan’s delivery days are over and he’s planning on getting a vasectomy. “We’re tapping out,” he quipped. “I’m 52…Two is perfect—a boy and a girl. We tried for, since Gus was born, to have another and hit a rough go trying to…lost a couple. It was an emotional ride. So, now we have our little girl. We’re done.”
I didn’t know that was even a thing now, that dads could personally deliver their babies. When I had my son ages ago my husband was there and supportive but the midwife delivered the baby. It’s kind of scary to think of a non-professional doing it, but I guess they’re there to step in if there are any problems. I don’t remember hearing that Hilarie suffered miscarriages and that must have been awful. Like Jeffrey, I have a friend’s whose husband had a vasectomy after she had a couple of miscarriages. He felt like it was the least he could do so that she would never have to go through that again.
Jeffrey also talked about the fact that they gave their daughter a traditional boy’s name, George. He said he calls her Georgie and that “We threw in a middle name that was much more feminine.” I wonder if George will have an advantage with a male name. Will businesses and prospective employers just assume she’s male? Maybe in the future they’ll know so much more about us that it won’t matter as much.
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