Carrie and Boris Johnson expecting second baby after miscarriage heartbreak

Carrie Johnson, wife of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, announced on Instagram on Saturday, July 31, 2021, that the couple was expecting their second child before the end of the year, according to Fox News and Euronews. In the same post, she disclosed that she had suffered a miscarriage earlier in the year: "At the beginning of the year, I had a miscarriage which left me heartbroken."

Carrie wrote that she felt "incredibly blessed to be pregnant again but I've also felt like a bag of nerves," language reported by both Fox News and Woman & Home in their accounts of the announcement. She said she hoped a "rainbow baby" -- a term used for a child born after a prior loss -- would arrive by Christmas.

The available reporting does not specify the exact month of the earlier miscarriage beyond Carrie's own description of "the beginning of the year," and the precise due date beyond a general expectation of a December birth was not confirmed further in the sources retrieved.

Sharing the loss publicly

Carrie's post came during Baby Loss Awareness week, according to Woman & Home, and she said she chose to speak publicly in part because reading about other women's experiences of loss on the Tommy's baby-loss charity's website "provided me much comfort after our loss earlier this year." She added that she hoped sharing her own story might help others going through something similar.

I've found this pregnancy very different to my first. Pregnancy after loss is totally wonderful but the worry is constant.

Carrie added that Tommy's "has shown me that's completely normal," according to Woman & Home's reporting on her Baby Loss Awareness Week post -- a follow-up statement distinct from her original July 31 pregnancy announcement, describing how the anxiety of a second pregnancy after loss persisted even as the pregnancy progressed.

Family context

The announcement followed the couple's wedding, held in a small ceremony in London, and came after the birth of their first child, a son named Wilfred, in April 2020. Their second child, a daughter, was born that December, according to later reporting.

How the pregnancy resolved

Downing Street's formal announcement of the birth read: "The Prime Minister and Mrs Johnson are delighted to announce the birth of a healthy baby girl at a London hospital earlier today. Both mother and daughter are doing very well," according to Hello! magazine's account of the couple's birth announcements. The baby was named Romy Iris Charlotte Johnson -- Romy after Carrie's aunt Rosemary, Iris from the Greek word for rainbow, marking her status as the couple's own "rainbow baby" after the earlier miscarriage, and Charlotte after Boris Johnson's mother, who had died in September 2021, per the same reporting.

That timeline means Romy's birth came roughly three months after the death of her paternal grandmother, a detail the couple folded into the child's name rather than addressing directly in either the pregnancy announcement or the birth statement, according to the retrieved coverage.

US In News compiled this archived account from contemporaneous coverage by Fox News, Euronews, Woman & Home and Hello! magazine. It restores a story originally published on this site in July 2021; details are as reported at the time.