Olympian Laura Kenny shares baby gender after heartbreaking losses ‘I’ve never felt so relieved’
20.03.2023 - 12:29
/ ok.co.uk
Cycling’s golden couple Sir Jason and Dame Laura Kenny have exclusively revealed that their new baby will be a boy. Although they have decided on a name for the new arrival, due in July, for now, they are remaining tight-lipped about it. But sharing their baby’s gender for the first time, Laura beams, “We’re having another little boy.” Laura, who already has a five-year-old son, Albie, with Jason, has already suffered two heartbreaking losses.
A miscarriage in 2021 was followed two months later by an ectopic pregnancy that led to her undergoing lifesaving treatment to remove a fallopian tube. So the couple, who between them have 15 Olympic medals, were delighted by the pregnancy. “We didn’t have a preference, as we’ve been through so much trauma we just wanted a baby that was well,” Laura says.
“But we asked Albie what he wanted and he kept saying a little boy. I said to him, ‘What happens if we get a baby sister?’ And he was like, ‘I don’t want it’. “I’ve never felt so relieved as when we got the result,” she smiles.
“We showed him the scan and he said, ‘I hope he grows up quickly.’ He wants the baby to be born aged five!” She adds, “I love a name that can be shortened. “Albie is Albert Louie and there’s an abbreviation again this time. I feel choosing the name is important for Jase, as it helps him feel connected.” When Laura touched down in Mallorca for a bike race last October, she was hit by a wave of nausea.
Scouting out an airport pharmacy, she picked up a pregnancy test and darted into a nearby toilet. Less than a year previously, the world’s most successful woman cyclist had suffered her miscarriage while commentating at a race on the island. “It was the exact same place, the same airport, heading to the same
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