James Van Der Beek and his wife, Kimberly, welcomed their sixth child together after two late-term pregnancy losses. Baby #6 is a baby boy that they named Jeremiah, Remi, for short.
You didn’t know that his wife was expecting? The actor explained why they kept this pregnancy a secret. “After experiencing late-term #pregnancyloss twice in a row (both at 17+ weeks), we kept this one quiet. Truthfully, I was terrified when I found out,” he wrote. “But we found a doctor here in Texas who diagnosed the last two as having been caused by an: ‘incompetent cervix’ (I asked him what kind of misogynistic old dude invented that term and he laughed – which made me like him even more. Now it’s called a #WeakenedCervix). A simple surgical cerclage was done, removed at full-term, @vanderkimberly gave birth naturally on the ranch…and here we are. The medical books say to only look at a cerclage as an option after three late-term losses. Our doctor recommends considering it after one. Spread the word.”
Remi has four older sisters Olivia, 11, Annabel, 7, Emilia, 5, Gwendolyn, 3, and an older brother, Joshua, 9.
