Aly Michalka is walking on sunshine.
The Aly & AJ musician welcomed her first child, a baby boy named Jack Francis, with husband Stephen Ringer at home on April 21, the couple confirmed.
“It was a very peaceful and calm birth,” Aly told People in an interview published June 10, “which is really what we were hoping for.”
But a home birth wasn’t always Aly’s plan. The Easy A actress shared that she had been angling to deliver her baby in the hospital with a “great doctor” before coming across a midwife who made her realize her “ideal” experience.
“Every woman’s birth is really their own journey and their own choice,” Aly explained. “But I do feel like our medical system intervenes in ways that can be really harmful for women and really traumatic for not only themselves, but for their baby. For me, it felt like a great way to be able to avoid that.”
