Happy birthday,Benjamin Allen Cohen!
On Thursday,Andy Cohen’sadorable son celebrated his 2ndbirthdayand theBravostar marked the special occasion with a sweet social media post.
Sharing aphotographof Ben hugging a teddy bear as he wore a pair of plaid pajama bottoms and a complimenting shirt, Cohen, 52, wrote, “Ben turns 2 today! He is my true delight and I can’t imagine life without him. ♥️,” in the caption of the Instagram snapshot.
“Happy birthday Ben!!! ❤️,“Real Housewives of Beverly HillsstarKyle Richardswrote asReal Housewives of Atlanta’sPorsha Williamsadded, “Yay Happy Birthday!!!!”
Ben wasborn via surrogateback in February 2019, making Cohen a first-time father.
Sharing a black-and-white photo of himself holding his son on Instagram to celebrate his arrival at the time, Cohenwrote, “I’m in love. And speechless. And eternally grateful to an incredible surrogate. And I’m a dad. Wow.”
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“Tonight, I want you to be the first to know that after many years of careful deliberation, a fair amount of prayers and the benefit of science — if all goes according to plan, in about six weeks timeI’m going to become a father,” he shared at the time.
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“I was in the delivery room. I had been hoping that he would have a full head of hair, and he really overdelivered,” he joked at the time. “That was the first thing you see, the head of hair coming out. And I was amazed.”
After Cohen “cut the umbilical cord” himself, doctors cleaned Ben off and brought him over to the new dad,who then went skin-to-skin withhis newborn for the first time.
“He was so alert for the first two hours. His eyes were wide open. He didn’t cry; he was just calm,” Cohen recalled to PEOPLE. “I kind of have no words for it.”
Cohen may have waited a little later in life to become a parent, but the advantage of that, he said, was that he has “a sense of calm that I didn’t have 10 [or] 20 years ago.”
source: people.com
