Tanya Hennessy has welcomed her first child with husband Thomas Poole following a seven-year fertility struggle.
The beloved comedian took to Instagram on Christmas evening to share two images of the couple beaming as they cradled their adorable daughter.
In the first image, Tanya looks every inch the proud mother as she holds her precious baby who is swaddled in a blanket.
The second image shows Thomas in scrubs teary-eyed and smiling as the father and newborn bond.
‘Our beautiful baby girl is finally here,’ she wrote beside the images, before revealing the couple named their bundle of joy, Scottie Jack Poole.
‘I’m in heaven, my heart is exploding. My baby is here. My baby. She’s everything and more and I’ve never been so blissfully happy in my life.’
Tanya Hennessy has welcomed her first child with husband Thomas Poole following a seven-year fertility struggle. (Both pictured)
The announcement was soon met with congratulations from some of the couple’s famous friends.
‘Ohhhh I’m so happy for you all! Welcome to the world darling Scottie,’ wrote media veteran and podcast host Jessica Rowe.
‘My heart is bursting with happiness for you, Tan. Baby Scottie is divine,’ added Channel Seven’s Sonia Kruger.
‘I could not be happier for you gorgeous mumma,’ added The Bachelor’s Laura Byrne.
The exciting news follows Tanya’s seven-year fertility struggle.
In 2022, Tanya opened up about her struggles with having a baby.
‘Getting pregnant is a f***ing full-time job and I am at my wits end,’ she told her social media followers at the time.
She continued: ‘It hurts that my body won’t do what I want it to. I’m bloody over it.
In the first image, Tanya looks every inch the proud mother as she held her precious baby
The second image shows Thomas in scrubs teary-eyed and smiling as the father and newborn bond
‘Something that is seemingly so easy for so many, feels impossible for us. It’s infuriating. The endless calls and the blood tests and internals.’
She said she’s ‘not 100% certain they know or care what’s going on with’ her since they deal with so many patients every day.
‘I’m exhausted. Burnt out. I’m not burnt out by work but by the fatigue of [trying to conceive]. It’s impossibly hard,’ she said.
‘You want to just get up and do it. Like work, but you get fed up from trying and getting nothing from it.’
‘Plus, I’ve been doing that for years and it comes to a point of frustration that’s hard to bare [sic]. I feel like I’m between two worlds. Where I want to be and where I am,’ she continued.
Tanya opened up to Mamamia earlier this year about her ‘aggressive’ case of endometriosis, a painful disorder in which the inner lining of the uterus grows on the outside of female reproductive organs.
She said it was so bad it had grown over her bladder and she would need surgery to get the extra tissue out.
‘And then it’ll be a couple of months and then we can try naturally again, or we’ll have to go down the IVF path,’ she added.
