Broadway couple Patti Murin and Colin Donnell welcomed their first baby, Cecily Philips Donnell, earlier this week, and her name may sound familiar.
“Meet Cecily Philips Donnell, born July 14. She is strong and ready to change the world, and we have never loved anything else in our lives,” Murin wrote on Instagram on Friday (July 17) along with a photo. of the family. of three in the hospital. “‘Life is not what we do, it is who we are doing it with.'”
Murin quoted a lyric from Will Connolly’s “Cecily Smith,” an extra song from the original 2014 production Off-Broadway. Fly By Night: a new musical, who starred. The new mother did not explicitly explain if they named their daughter after the song.
“We are absolutely in love with Cecily, and parenting is already the craziest and most beautiful thing there is,” the couple said. Persons.
Murin, who played Princess Anna in the stage adaptation of Frozen, she claimed she battled coronavirus symptoms during her pregnancy in an Instagram post dated April.
“Even Disney princesses can get sick. I started to feel very tired and sore with a fever and cough that makes me feel like my head is opening from the inside out, and after talking to my amazing OBGYN, my GP and very Friendly doctor at Mount Sinai during a video conference, they are pretty sure it is COVID-19, “he wrote at the time. “I AM WELL, I SWEAR, AND IT’S ALSO THE BABY!”
the Chicago Med alum teased that her husband Donnell, who also acted in the NBC medical drama series, knew how to care for her because of her on-screen experience. But she did not express concern for her unborn daughter at the time.
“This virus cannot cross the placenta, so my uterus is literally the safest place for peanuts at the moment,” he said as part of the legend. “I’m eating and drinking all the water in the world, and now he’s kicking me almost every hour, so I know he’s getting stronger every day.”
Check out his first family photo below.
