Amanda Byram has shared her first snap cradling her newborn son Phoenix after surprising fans last week with the news she'd welcomed a baby boy.
The presenter, 48, gushed that she's 'shed so many happy tears' reading her fans' supportive messages after detailing her 'long and heartbreaking' fertility journey.
Amanda, who has been married to TV producer husband Julian Okines since 2016 shared a sweet post with her baby boy wrapped in a swaddle as she thanked her fans for their supportive messages since she announced she'd become a mother.
'Shedding happy tears!' Amanda Byram has shared her first snap cradling her newborn son Phoenix after surprising fans last week with the news she'd welcomed a baby boy
Amanda captioned her post: 'Phoenix, Julian and I just wanted to say the most incredible THANK YOU to everyone for your gorgeous messages we are so overwhelmed and feeling the love.
'It's hard to reply to everyone on zero sleep but please know we've read every single one and have shed many happy tears reading them.'
Last week Amanda shared the unexpected news that she had become a mother for the first time, as she shared a picture of her son's tiny hand on Instagram.
Sweet: The presenter gushed that she's 'shed so many happy tears' reading her fans' supportive messages after detailing her 'long and heartbreaking' fertility journey
Candid: Amanda stunned fans last week when she announced she'd welcomed a son (pictured in a recent post)
She wrote: 'And then there was you. I'm so overjoyed, full of love and bursting with happiness to be able to share with you that @julianokines and I have welcomed our incredible son, Phoenix Blaze Byram Okines into the big wide, wonderful world...
'What a privilege that he entrusted us to nurture and guide his little soul through the endless possibilities of life and we are eternally grateful to him for choosing us to be his parents. Our fertility journey has been long...
'Our fertility journey has been long and we know only too well the heartbreak of the hope that turned to hopelessness, the elation that turned to devastation and the strain putting this often-secretive journey before your job, your friends, and your life.
'Overjoyed': The star posted a snap of her baby boy's tiny hand while detailing herself and her husband Julian's long journey to become parents
'I know many brave parents-in-waiting who, like us, have
