Former Little Mix singer Jesy Nelson gave birth to her twin daughters weeks early after experiencing a high-risk pregnancy.
“So, our beautiful baby girls decided to come at 31 weeks plus 5 days,” Nelson, 33, and boyfriend Zion Foster wrote in a joint Instagram post on Sunday, May 18. “It all happened so quickly, but we are so blessed that they are here with us, healthy and fighting strong! We’ve never felt more in love.”
Nelson gave birth to daughters Ocean Jade Nelson-Foster and Story Monroe Nelson-Foster on Thursday, May 15.
Foster, 26, also reposted the social media announcement onto his Instagram Story set to Lionel Richie’s “Truly.”
“My princesses are here,” Foster wrote. “Thank you, God.”
Nelson and Foster, who have been together since January 2022, announced in January of this year that she was pregnant with twins. Amid her pregnancy, Nelson learned that she was having monochorionic diamniotic (MCDA) twins.
“Unfortunately, there are complications that come with having identical twins,” she said in a March social media video. “The types of twins we’re having are monochorionic diamniotic twins and with that, normally, most twins will have two placentas that they feed off of. When you have monochorionic diamniotic twins, they can lead to lots of different complications.”
She added, “At the moment, I am currently pre-stage TTTS, which is twin-to-twin transfusion. I’m being monitored very closely. I have to go be scanned twice a week. The current situation that we’re in at the moment is that every time I’ve gone it gets a little bit worse. We are just hoping and praying for the best. We feel so blessed that we’ve been given twins. It’s just really sad, unfortunately, it does come with these complications we had no idea about.”
Later that month, Nelson underwent a medical procedure after her TTTS symptoms worsened.
“It’s necessary because it’s gonna give our babies the best chance of surviving,” she said in another Instagram update that month. “So, yeah, we’re just waiting to go in. I’m just hoping and praying for the best, really. I feel absolutely gutted. I really was hoping that we wouldn’t even be in this position.”
By March 31, Nelson revealed via Instagram that her TTTS “cleared up” and the operation “was a success.”
“Basically, the situation we’re in now is my cervix is very, very short, so I can’t leave the hospital because my waters could break at any point and I’m still very, very early,” she added at the time. “I can’t leave the hospital until I’m a certain amount of weeks, so every week we’re just like, ‘Please, please, please, stay in there!’”
