Camryn Grimes (Mariah Copeland, The Young and the Restless) welcomed her firstborn, Bridger Elias Foster, into the world on Wednesday, December 13, 2023, and now she’s opening up about life as a mommy.

Camryn Grimes On Motherhood

“He came at 37 and a half weeks; he was early but not, like, crazy early,” relayed the actress to Soap Opera Digest about her precious bundle of joy. “I was hoping to do an at-home birth but between the time my water broke and the time I ended up getting to the hospital, it was like a span of an hour, and I went from having contractions every 15, 20 minutes to roiling contractions, so it was happening too quickly.

“We got to the hospital and turns out when my water broke, he just dropped down before my cervix was fully dilated. My body was saying, “Push him out!” but I was only four centimeters dilated and that wasn’t going to work.

“I had an epidural to slow the process down, so my cervix could catch up with what my body was already doing. Brock and I spent the rest of the night into the next morning sleeping and then waking up and watching a movie and then talking and laughing and we just had such a lovely time. The morning of the 13th, they said, “Hey, you’re fully dilated, are you ready to go?” I spent a couple of hours laboring and then he was here at 8:15.”

The connection was instantaneous. “When they put him on me and he cried, I was doing the same thing [I did] after Brock proposed to me; I was just going, ‘Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.’ It was all I knew to say…I still have trouble wrapping my brain around it. I look at him now and I’m like, ‘You’re here because I cooked you.’”

On her son’s most interesting name: “For as long as I can remember, I’ve had a running name list in the notes app on my phone and I think I had put Bridger on the list at one point. I have sort of a unique name and my brother and sisters have unique names and I just knew I wasn’t going to do something traditional.

“I’ve never really heard of a Bridger and then when I looked up the name, there’s a Bridger, Montana named after this adventurer and pioneer and my dad’s from Montana, so I was like, ‘That’s the kind of the energy I want for my kid,’ and very quickly Brock and I said, ‘Let’s do it.’ We didn’t hem and haw for too long over it.”

And as for Bridger’s biggest fan, well, that’s Y&R’s leading lady Melody Thomas Scott (Nikki Newman). Shared Grimes: “Mel saw him and she stopped me in the makeup room, got very serious and said, ‘Your baby is the most beautiful baby I have ever seen.’ I was like, ‘Oh, thank you so much!’ And then she said, ‘No, I’m serious.’”

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