{"id":22426,"date":"2011-12-27T21:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/essence-atkins-welcomes-a-son-on-christmas\/"},"modified":"2011-12-27T21:25:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T21:25:00","slug":"essence-atkins-welcomes-a-son-on-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/27\/essence-atkins-welcomes-a-son-on-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Essence Atkins Welcomes a Son &#8211; on Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>Essence Atkins<\/strong> and her husband <strong>Jaime Mendez<\/strong> got the best present they could have asked for on Christmas Day \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/celebritybabies.people.com\/2011\/08\/09\/essence-atkins-pregnant\/\">a son<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFound [happiness] \u2026 our 1st baby, a beautiful healthy boy, was born on Christmas Day! #blessing,\u201d the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tbs.com\/shows\/arewethereyet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Are We There Yet?<\/a><\/em> actress, 39, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/essencesays\/status\/151671923510743040\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tweeted Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first child for the couple, who were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/people\/article\/0,,20308491,00.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">married in September 2009<\/a> after meeting on Match.com.<\/p>\n<p>Atkins had a <a href=\"http:\/\/celebritybabies.people.com\/2011\/10\/28\/essence-atkins-thrilled-to-be-a-mother-later-in-life\/\">relatively painless pregnancy<\/a> up until the final weeks, she writes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m convinced the last month of pregnancy prepares [you for] no sleep when the baby arrives. Ugh, I\u2019ve been awake 21 hours,\u201d she <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/essencesays\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tweeted recently<\/a>.<br \/><span id=\"more-151760\"\/><br \/><em>\u2013 Liz Raftery<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read the original:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.people.com\/~r\/people\/headlines\/~3\/JWIK4ANE4-Y\/\" title=\"Essence Atkins Welcomes a Son - on Christmas\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Essence Atkins Welcomes a Son &#8211; on Christmas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Essence Atkins and her husband Jaime Mendez got the best present they could have asked for on Christmas Day \u2014 a son . \u201cFound [happiness] \u2026 our 1st baby, a beautiful healthy boy, was born on Christmas Day! #blessing,\u201d the Are We There Yet? actress, 39, Tweeted Tuesday . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Essence Atkins Welcomes a Son - on Christmas - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/27\/essence-atkins-welcomes-a-son-on-christmas\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Essence Atkins Welcomes a Son - on Christmas - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Essence Atkins and her husband Jaime Mendez got the best present they could have asked for on Christmas Day \u2014 a son . \u201cFound [happiness] \u2026 our 1st baby, a beautiful healthy boy, was born on Christmas Day! #blessing,\u201d the Are We There Yet? 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