Stacey Solomon has suggested that her baby is due this week and said that her midwife gave her advice on how to extend her pregnancy.
The 32-year-old Loose Women star is expecting her fifth kid, her third with husband Joe Swash, 40; the couple has three other children from prior marriages.
Stacey was recently compelled to dispel rumours that she had already given birth, but stated her kid may arrive this week and that her midwife advised her not to “do anything dumb” to delay the arrival of her child.
Stacey beamed on Instagram on Friday as she revealed why she’d been missing from the social media platform for a short while but told her 5.5 million followers it wasn’t because she’d given birth.
‘So many of you were like, “Stace, don’t do that to us, you’ve been quiet for a few days and we thought you’d given birth,”’ the star began.
‘Sorry, I’m very much still full-term pregnant, I just really wanted to try and make it to a couple of days before the baby comes,’ she added.
Stacey went on: ‘I know I can’t control it, but my midwife was like, “If you want a chance of getting to those days, calm the hell down and don’t do anything silly”.
‘So I’ve been trying to rest and I made it to today, which I’m so excited about.’
The former singer then revealed she was shooting her latest In The Style collection, adding: ‘I really wanted to get to today because I know that I’m not going to have another collection for quite a while because I’m going to take some time off for the baby.’
Stacey and Joe already have a son, Rex, born in May 2019, and a girl, Rose, due in October 2021.
Stacey has kids Zach, 14, and Leighton, 10, with past boyfriends Dean Cox and Aaron Barnham, while the latter has a son Harry, 14, from a prior relationship with Emma Sophocleous.
Stacey teased her and Joe’s baby’s due date in December, not long after sharing her wonderful pregnancy news, and stated it’s ‘coming soon…’ Much sooner than we anticipated’.
Speaking at the end of December, she hinted: ‘So this time next month we will be getting ready to say hello to a whole new pickle.’
The pair is keeping the baby’s gender a secret for the time being, and they recently joked that with five children between them, they are running out of baby names.