Pippa Middleton Has Given Birth to a Baby Boy

The same day Harry and Meghan announced that they're expecting!

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Kate Middleton is officially an aunt. The Duchess of Cambridge's sister, Pippa Middleton, welcomed her first child (a baby boy!) with husband James Matthews on Monday in the Lindo Wing at St. Mary's Hospital (opens in new tab)—the same place Kate and Diana gave birth to their children.

Pippa has kept a relatively low profile throughout her pregnancy, which was announced in April (opens in new tab) right before her nephew Prince Louis' birth (opens in new tab). The timing of the birth has kept Pippa from participating in recent events like close royal family friend Sophie Carter's wedding (opens in new tab) that the entire Middleton family attended (opens in new tab). However, it didn't stop her from attending Princess Eugenie's wedding to Jack Brooksbank (opens in new tab) on October 12. She has been seen out and about throughout her pregnancy, and always looks incredibly chic (opens in new tab).

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Pippa and her husband reportedly followed in the footsteps of Will and Kate and chose not to find out the sex of their baby (opens in new tab). She didn't, however, deal with the same morning sickness that Kate dealt with during her pregnancy with George, 5, Charlotte, 3, and Louis, five months. “I was lucky to pass the 12-week scan without suffering from morning sickness,’ she explained in her Waitrose (opens in new tab) column. “That meant I was able to carry on as normal.”

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She's also remained incredibly active (opens in new tab) throughout her pregnancy and took barre classes to stay in shape. “I feel far from a ballerina, but I'm equally determined not to break into a penguin-style waddle and plod around with bad posture," she recalls in the same column (opens in new tab). "So with this in mind, I've continued to embrace barre-inspired workouts throughout pregnancy—a form of exercise taken from ballet which involves the small, isolated movements that develop flattering muscle tone, or so I hope.”

James and Pippa married last May in a beautiful ceremony (opens in new tab) at St. Mark's Church after dating for a few years and were "thrilled and utterly overjoyed” when they found out Pippa was pregnant. The news comes only a day after Harry and Meghan announced that they're expecting a child (opens in new tab) together in the spring.

Congrats to the happy couple!

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