Katherine Heigl Celebrates Son's First Birthday with Topless Baby Bump Photo

Katherine Heigl celebrated her son’s first birthday by posting an eye-opening Throwback Thursday photo, showing her topless with her baby bump.

At 9am one year ago today I had @joshbkelley take this photo of me so I could remember how incredibly pregnant I was right before we left for the hospital and my 12pm scheduled cesarean. Joshua Jr had been in the breech position for over a month and had still not moved an inch a week before his due date so I made the decision to have a cesarean and was incredibly nervous and a little scared this time last year. I had never been hospitalized or had ever had any kind of surgery and had no idea what to expect. The second photo is right before I went in for surgery. Trying to look cool, calm and collected! They numbed me up, gave me some morphine and opened me up. My doctor struggled to get him out because he was really wedged in there and not quite ready to leave the womb. When she finally pulled him out at exactly 12:33pm he didn’t start breathing and they worked quickly to get oxygen in him and start his tiny lungs. @joshbkelley was standing with them when he finally took his first breath. That day, as I slowly came out of the morphine haze and clutched my tiny man to me I thanked the heavens for his breath, his life and for making me a mother three times over. As evening settled in Josh and I got cozy in my hospital room, found one of my all time favorites #SweetHomeAlabama on the tv and just relished in our perfect newborn son. He was so tiny and new, so fragile and tender. As I lay him down to sleep that first night in his very appropriate “welcome to the world” sleep sack I thought the moment would last forever. Yet here we are, a whole year later and it’s only the photos that remind me my brute of a boy was ever so new and small! Now he’s 26 ponds of rolling, tumbling, grasping, giggling, shouting, curious, jolly energy! He is everything and more than I could have hoped for and he has brought our family even more joy, love, laughter, abundance, bliss and yes, exhaustion and exasperation too! It’s been a hell of a year and I could not be more grateful for it or him! Happy Birthday to my little man! Maybe I can make this next year go a little slower!

A post shared by Katherine Heigl (@katherineheigl) on Dec 20, 2017 at 9:44am PST

The 39-year-old Heigl posted a gallery of photos from last year, leading up to Joshua Jr.’s birth on Dec. 20, 2016. The first photo is a topless photo her husband, singer Josh Kelley took just before they left for her Caesarean Section at the hospital.

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The other photos show Heigl in the hospital, and Joshua in Kelley’s and his mother’s arms. The last photo shows Joshua on his first birthday with his smiling mother.

In the caption with the Instagram gallery, Heigl wrote about Joshua’s birth and the scary moments in the hospital.

“Joshua Jr had been in the breech position for over a month and had still not moved an inch a week before his due date so I made the decision to have a Caesarean and was incredibly nervous and a little scared this time last year,” Heigl wrote. “I had never been hospitalized or had ever had any kind of surgery and had no idea what to expect.”

Before the surgery, the doctors “numbed me up, gave me some morphine and opened me up,” the actress wrote. “My doctor struggled to get him out because he was really wedged in there and not quite ready to leave the womb. When she finally pulled him out at exactly 12:33 p.m. he didn’t start breathing and they worked quickly to get oxygen in him and start his tiny lungs.”

Kelley stood by the doctors until Joshua Jr. had taken “his first breath.”

“He was so tiny and new, so fragile and tender,” Heigl wrote of her son. “As I lay him down to sleep that first night in his very appropriate ‘welcome to the world’ sleep sack I thought the moment would last forever.”

Today, Joshua Jr. is 26 pounds of “rolling, tumbling, grasping, giggling, shouting, curious, jolly energy!”

Heigl continued, “He is everything and more than I could have hoped for and he has brought our family even more joy, love, laughter, abundance, bliss and yes, exhaustion and exasperation too! It’s been a hell of a year and I could not be more grateful for it or him! Happy Birthday to my little man! Maybe I can make this next year go a little slower!”

Heigl and Kelley married in December 2007. They also have two adopted daughters.

Photo credit: Instagram/ Katherine Heigl