News of a new baby is always the best news, and today influencer and children’s entertainer, Lauren Brant, has announced the arrival her third son with her husband, former AFL player Barry Hall.
The couple welcomed Samson Andy Hall, at 6.18am on the 26th of October, and announced the birth via Instagram this morning.
“☀️🧡 Samson Andy Hall 🧡☀️ Our beautiful baby boy arrived Earth Side 26/10/2021, at 6.18am as a perfect 3.535kg & 51cm bundle 🌻,” Lauren shared.
“We have been in a complete love bubble of newborn smells, noises, kisses and cuddles.”
Samson was also welcomed by his two older brothers, Miller, 2, and Houston, 4.
“Miller & Houston are besotted with their baby brother and our hearts are just SO full,” Lauren wrote.
Lauren shared an adorable image of baby Samson, along with a text graphic explaining why they chose his name.
“This baby boy gave us strength to appreciate, respect and surrender to both the gift and impermanence of life,” she shared.
“We were blessed with him a few days before our beautiful Sandra passed. He was the ‘light’ through our grief,” she explained, referring to the tragic death of her sister-in-law in February this year.
“In choosing a ‘name’ we wanted to honour our son’s special connection to Sandy. We experienced a deeply spiritual week of strong messages from her through symbols of sunshine & sunflowers that were being told to us via Miller & Houston,” she explained.
“The meaning & origin of Samson is ‘sun’ and Biblically, he was endowed with strength.
“Samson’s middle name is ‘Andy’, which is in honour of his Daddy, who’s middle name is ‘Andrew’. A special little touch – when written with his first initial reads: S.Andy.”
Lauren has spoken openly about the deeply saddening loss of Sandra this year after she passed away from bowel cancer.
In a tell-all with A Current Affair in June this year, Lauren and Barry gave insight into the struggle of losing Sandra, and also announced their pregnancy.
They also shared that they had gotten married in a private ceremony in February, with Sandra by their side just days before she passed away.
“In amidst the twilight of heartache, hopelessness and suffering … We found the purest joy, a transformational discovery,” Lauren wrote on Instagram alongside pictures of their wedding, which took place in a sunflower field.
In the days following the wedding announcement, she wrote about the pregnancy alongside a family portrait of herself, Barry and their two angelic-looking sons.
“Welcoming the newest Master Hall, October 2021 💙,” she wrote.
“The world needs more confident, kind, empathetic, beautiful men and we believe that’s why we have been blessed with a third to guide & love unconditionally.”
In telling the story of her pregnancy, Lauren shared that she was due for her period on the day of her wedding to Barry, but took a pregnancy test a few days later when it didn’t arrive.
The first test was inconclusive, but she shared videos of herself sharing the news with her sick sister-in-law and her parents at the hospital, where she took one that came up positive.
WATCH BELOW: Lauren Brant and her sister share the news of her pregnancy with her parents.
Lauren, who is very candid on Instagram, kept her followers up to date throughout her pregnancy.
The now mum-of-three shared a video of her 15-week scan, where the baby seemed to give a thumbs up to his little brothers, who were watching on.
We look forward to more adorable snaps of baby Samson, who undoubtedly will be as gorgeous and cherubic as his two siblings!