Alex, Hawk and Drake White.Photo: Zack Knudsen
Aftera long road,Drake Whiteand wife Alex are finally parents.
Born at 1:17 p.m., son William Hawk White weighed in at 8 lbs., 9 oz. and measured 20½ inches long when he arrived in Nashville, Tennessee.
William Hawk White.Zack Knudsen
“William is Drake and his Dad’s first name, and we saw hawks almost daily throughout the entire pregnancy andIVF process. A hawk sighting symbolizes you’re going in the right direction,” the pair tells PEOPLE. “We took it as a sign from God and knew we’d use the name Hawk if we had a boy.”
Alex, Hawk and Drake White.Zack Knudsen
The country singer and his chef wife endured a six-year-long road to parenthood that’s included health issues for each of them in addition to their fertility struggles.
“We’ve been through so much,” Draketold PEOPLE of the experience in September. “We’ve been through so much, from myhaving a stroke on stageto Alex being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and having an autoimmune disorder. And then this was just something else that tested our faith and tested our strength.”
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“It was extremely hard, and there were a lot of times that we were frustrated, and we were very honest with that,” Drake says of their journey. “I don’t want to make this sound like it was sunshine and rainbows because it wasn’t.”
“We believed that it was going to happen. We’ve always wanted kids. We wanted the opportunity to raise kids and thought we’d be great parents.”
He continued, “We kept saying this is our path, this is where we’re going to do, this is what we’re manifesting, what we want to see happen — and ultimately, it happened.”
source: people.com
